Our Mission

To continuously provide our principals with globally competitive, disciplined and safety conscious seafarers.

Our Vision

To become the premier manning company in the Maritime Industry.

At Your Service

Amethyst Shipping Company Inc. provides comprehensive services that cover the client's most essential manning services requirements.

Selection of well - trained, highly-qualified and certified Filipino seafarers. Filing and processing of required documents prior to boarding. These documents include both shipboard and travel requirements. Pre-departure orientation that will prepare seafarers for life and career at sea. Seminars on drugs, alcohol and sexually transmitted diseases are held to provide guidance to seafarers' way of life while on board. Cultural differences and customs of various host countries are discussed to psychologically prepare them as well. Management of payrolls, performance and service records. On-time payment to employees at prevailing bank exchange rates. Dispatch and repatriation of crewmembers after completion of assignments. An orientation based on the standards of International Safety Management (ISM). This orientation encompasses all regulations on safety and environmental protection.

Flexibility of Agreement

Amethyst Shipping Company Inc. is flexible to adapt to its principals' various manning needs. Manning services contracts are prepared with the different requirements of ship owners and managers in mind. These contracts are customized depending on each principal's unique requirements.

Work contracts are prepared in conformity with the Philippine labor laws of the Department of Labor.

The company also maintains a record of good standing with the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration.

This ensures principals that all transactions with Amethyst Shipping Company Inc. are legal and are protected by laws of the Republic of the Philippines.

Bridging the Distances of the World

Amethyst Shipping Company Inc. mediates between its principals' priorities and its seafarers' interests. It aims not only to be the country's leader in the Philippine maritime industry, but also to be a supporter to seafarers and their families.

As such, Amethyst patronizes both its principals and seamen.

Your Home at Sea: The company's responsibility to its seafarers

Amethyst Shipping Company, Inc. recognizes the need to support and assist families of seafarers. The company practices on time payment of allotment at the prevailing bank exchange rate.

The organizational set-up of Amethyst Shipping is likened to a family. Crewmembers and their relatives are treated with fairness and honesty. Amethyst places high importance on its people. It motivates, inspires and encourages its employees to work efficiently and diligently.

While the company's total approach to its relationship with seafarers reflect values of professionalism and efficiency, it also believes in putting humanity to the heart of its business. For instance, it is one of the few crewing companies providing in-house medical facilities for its crew.

The company strives not only to exist as a business enterprise, it also aspires to uplift the standard of living among its employees. It believes that, by providing a more personal approach to its management, it also enhances its relationship with its people.

It stresses honesty in all its dealings with crewmembers. These seafarers, upon knowing that their employer is also looking after the needs of their families, ensure impressive performance while at work.

By looking after the needs of their crewmembers' families, the company relieves its seamen of their domestic worries. Crewmembers can then concentrate in effectively fulfilling their duties on board.

During application, the company also does not accept any form of bribery from potential employees. It also does not charge placement fees or accept monetary contributions. The company's system of recruitment ensures that only qualified seafarers are hired.

At Amethyst Shipping, a financing department also helps ease financial burden of some seamen. Cash advances can be made during times of emergency like sudden hospitalization and accidents of crew's family members. Collateral is not required should a crew avail of this facility.

The company believes in building good relationships with its seafarers. By doing so, it gives back to its employees its commitment of trust and confidence.

Smooth Sailing: The Company's Commitment to its Principals

The company's ultimate goal is to recommend and provide qualified crew to its clients. Its pool of seafarers consists of the most qualified and highly educated individuals, schooled and trained in the country's best maritime institutions. As the company has a stable list of qualified crew, it can immediately provide principals' requirements on time. The company supplies well trained, efficient, professional and morally upright seamen to its clients. To assure maintenance of quality procedures and policies, the company regularly submits itself to standard audits. This shows the company's strict adherence to requirements imposed both by the government and various private regulating groups. It proves the promotion of quality standard service among their seafarers.

The company places high value in its selection of crewmembers. The stages of recruitment and hiring are supervised by intensively trained and educated key company officers. They strictly comply with the company's level of policies and quality standards.

Efficient deployment of crew is ensured by an experienced team composed of dedicated staff who expedite filing and processing of all pertinent documents prior to travel. The systemized procedure of screening, pre-employment qualification, selection, training and orientation ensures crewmembers join their vessels on time.

The company also requires quarterly performance reports from vessel masters. These reports are used to gauge seafarers' capabilities. Renewal or termination of their contracts is dependent on the result of these reports.