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1 Seagoing & Offshore Manning Specialist

2 Fast facts 130 Employees Regional Hubs in UK, Singapore, Perth, Texas & Florida 14 Years in Business Over 1500 Professional Placements made in 54 Countries in the last 12 Months More than 170,000 Unique Candidates Registered Access to 600,000 visitors annually via Faststream.com

3 Specialist teams Seagoing & Offshore Manning Cruise & Passenger Super Yachts Commercial Workboats Offshore Vessels Drilling Rigs & FPSO s

4 We recruit for Marine Officers & Engineers Electro Technical Officers Deck Crew Motormen Chefs & Stewards HVAC Engineers Hospitality Crew Crane Operators Dynamic Positioning Operators Rigging Crew Drilling Crew Maintenance Crew Production Crew ROV Crew Survey Parties Global database of over 120 candidate nationalities

5 Our services Permanent Recruitment Contract Recruitment Campaign Management Travel & Logistics International Payroll Services Crew Management

6 Our track record 78.8% Repeat Business Repeat Business CV s Sent to Interviews Requested 3.03 : 1 Interviews to Placements 1.95 : 1 Offers to Acceptances 1.12 : 1 Candidates leaving during rebate 1 in 263 Significantly below industry average staff turnover

7 lloydslist.com No. 60,717 FridayJuly13th, 2012 Leading maritime commerce since 1734 BUNKER PRICES: ROTTERDAM AND SINGAPORE 380 CST /01/2012 AVERAGE SALARY AND BONUS BY JOB TITLE In general, Middle East positions 20% pay the worst within each job Chartering category. However, salaries for ex-pats Director $227,140 are often tax free and housing costs Fleet/Technical $123,518 16% are provided by the employer. Local Manager DAVID OSLER employees will not as a rule enjoy Chartering $110,510 18% Manager such terms and conditions. AVERAGE shipping salaries continue While benefit packages offered by Marine to rise despite the current downturn Consultant $100,743 7% ship management companies have in most sectors of the industry, caught up with those on offer from Charterer $100,493 13% according to a survey compiled by shipowners, shipowners still have the Southampton-based recruitment Superintendent edge in terms of perks such as paid $96,456 agency Faststream. (Technical) 12% lunch, gym membership and optional Nevertheless, substantial numbers Marine $89,705 holiday credits. Surveyor 7% of seafarers and some shore staff have Average salaries for master seen substantial reductions in pay Superintendent $88,663 10% mariners tend to be highest for those (Marine) over the last 12 months. working on passenger vessels, and are Ship The mixed picture emerges from a $82,074 11% Operator typically at around $153,000. Next in survey based on responses from the league table are masters on Shipbroker 4,000 shipping employees working $81,666 (Chartering) 26% offshore vessels ($128,247), followed Average salary in all main shipping centres, as well by those serving on tankers ($115,613) Fleet Personnel as at sea. Manager $59,321 8% Average bonus and dry ships ($110,981). In general, seniority was found to But the good news is that over a 20- Source: Faststream Recruitment Group be a crucial variant, with those in the year working career at sea, an officer higher positions more likely to have can expect to see his or her salary enjoyed an inflation-plus settlement. operator has become increasingly explain engineering issues to a nontechnical audience. Faststream chief executive Mark double in real terms. The main conclusion is that 56% of highly regarded, the report notes. shore staff and 50% of seafarer Good ship operators can make the In geographical terms, the highest Charman said: Even though the respondents reported a salary gain of difference between commercial paid positions are in the US, where the shipping industry is being buffeted by 5% or more during the last year. success and failure and are in demand pool of candidates for jobs such as poor vessel earnings, rising costs and However, set against this, 10% of not only within shipping companies, superintendent are limited and tough ever more stringent regulations, shore-based professionals and 30% of but also commodity houses and visa requirements make it harder to salaries continue to rise. seafarers said that their salaries had banks. bring in overseas talent. Asia-based The sector suffers from a skill actually been cut in this period. Consultants can also earn well if ship operators and shipbrokers are shortage and the pool of highly Salaries were static for 17% of shore they are equally comfortable in a 20% better paid than their European qualified people continues to shrink. staff and 12% of seafarers. boiler suit and a business suit and can counterparts. This is both the legacy of a lack of In terms of average salaries ashore, training in the 1980s during the chartering directors are at the top of previous downturn and the often the tree, averaging an annual basic of perceived low status of jobs in the $227,140 and a bonus of 20%. shipping industry. That is some way ahead of the A spokesman for Nautilus second-ranking job title, with International said that the Anglofleet/technical managers pulling Dutch officers union had found the down $123,518 and a bonus of 16%. findings interesting, and added that Faststream highlights the officers in skill shortage areas have closeness in remuneration between often been able to command doubledigit pay hikes. ship operators, on $82,074, and shipbrokers, on $81,666. However, the tendency towards While gauging the average pay cuts did not appear to be as shipbroker s salary is of course very pronounced among unionised difficult, as it takes in such a wide officers covered by collective range of earnings and markets, the bargaining agreements, he said. n fact is that the role of the ship Mark Charman, Faststream chief executive The book focuses on a number of the vital developments in the law of pollution at sea, including; compensation, insurance, contract and tort. The book also offers critical analysis on emerging public law concepts, such as the legal position of seafarers from the perspective of criminal law in cases of pollution and the impact of port state control as a pollution control mechanism. Rotterdam Singapore 11/07/12 Source: Cockett Pilot inquiry seeks submissions The UK Transport Select Committee has called on the shipping industry to submit written evidence on issues affecting marine pilotage...2 Geden delays Universal move Genel Denizcilikis planning to take it easy for a few months and will wait at least until autumn before making a second attempt to spin off 10 tankers into a new company, after being forced to drop plans for the flotation of Universal Maritime in Oslo earlier this month, its chief executive has confirmed...3 HHLA fears European price war German port operator HHLA fears a price war among northern European terminal operators, despite prices already being under immense pressure...5 Asian oil refineries expand Asian refineries are driving capacity growth in the refinery industry as facilities expand in India, China and Pakistan, the International Energy Agency said on Thursday...8 Longhaul tanker boost Venezuelan oil is not only boosting tanker employment on the muchtalked-about very large crude carrier route to China but also into India...9 Tough times ahead for owners The containership orderbook stood at 3.8m teu in the first week of July, including the latest order from Evergreen for 10 13,800 teu ships that now appears to have been sealed, Lloyd s List Intelligence data reveals....back Price: 270 / 338 / $486 ISBN: We add value Carnival faces fresh lawsuits in the US Page4 Kühne launches fresh plea for a German merger Page6 Norway stoppage is worrying for UK s energy security Page7 Maritime Salary Review July 2012 Downturn fails to stem rise in average shipping salaries But pay for many seafarers and shore staff has been cut Even though the shipping industry is being buffeted by poor vessel earnings, rising costs and ever more stringent regulations, salaries continue to rise.the sector suffers from a skill shortage and the pool of highly qualified people continues to shrink NEWS HIGHLIGHTS the oil & gas - emea salary guide 2012 EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA (EMEA) SALARIES FOR PROCESS ENGINEERS The following salary guide is designed to show our respective clients the salary trends for 2012 for a specific discipline process engineers. Please see below the salary guide for process engineers across EMEA for the year SUBSEA PROCESS ENGINEERING DISCIPLINE Process engineering as a discipline in the last year has seen a massive curvature in growth. Process engineers as a whole are the foundation to a strong technological success in developing the process market. All salaries are listed in GBP. DISCIPLINE AREA YEARS OF EXPERIENCE Process Engineer (Chemical) 20+ *Subsea 36,000 45,000 73,000 96,000 *FPSO Topside 42,000 51,000 88, ,000 *Refinery 30,000 57,000 72,000 97,000 *LNG 32,000 46,000 67,000 90,000 SHORE BASED LNG Marine Superintendent London - 65K Technical Superintendent Monaco - 90K Technical Superintendent South East - 45K Technical Superintendent Middle East - Expat Fleet Manager Europe - Excellent package Dry Technical Superintendent London - 55K Crewing Manager London - 60K Manager Fleet Operations Centre N. Germany - c. 55K Senior Manager Risk Assessment N. Germany - c. 80K Assistant Marine Superintendent London - 55K PASSENGER 1st Officer - Cruise - 40K 3rd Engineer - Cruise - 36K OOW/Bosun - Yacht - 65K 2nd Engineer Y4 - Yacht - 42K 2nd Engineer Y3 - Yacht - 55K Chief Officer - Cruise - $85K Chief Engineer - Yacht - 90K Safety Officer - Cruise - 46K Chief Engineer - Yacht - 63K ETO - Cruise - 40K Chief Engineer - Fast Ferry - 50K 3rd Engineer - Ferry - 38K WORKBOAT Chief Engineer - Dredger - 46K Chief Engineer - Multi-Cat - 45K Chief Engineer - Tug-Boat - 44K Skipper - MPSV - 40K Skipper - Tug-Boat - 250/day Second Engineer - Research - 38K Second Engineer - Dredger - 35K Chief Mate - Dredger - 31K OFFSHORE Master - PSV - 285/day Master - PSV - 60K Chief Officer - CSV - 330/day 2nd Engineer - PSV - 250/day Chief Engineer - AHTS - 55K 3rd Engineer - Cable-Layer - 185/day 2nd Officer - PSV - 205/day 2nd Engineer - PSV - 45K 1st Officer - Jack-Up - 385/day JDPO - AHTS - 42K 2nd Officer - PSV - 40K 1st Engineer - Cable-Layer 62K HOSPITALITY Cook - Ferry - 100/day Steward - Yacht - 39K Steward - Ferry - 80/day Chef - Defence - 110/day Steward - Defence - 85/day Sous Chef - Cruise - 32K AB - Research - 80/day Chef - PSV - 100/day lloydslist.com Pollution at Sea: Law and Liability Edited by Prof Baris Soyer and Prof Andrew Tettenborn bringing you maritime news as it happens NEW BOOK Publishing June 2012 UK: +44 (0) USA: +(1) Singapore: +(65) www. *Information regarding salaries has been obtained from placements made across the process engineering discipline. These placements have been made over the last four consecutive quarters. Shore-based: +44 (0) shipping-uk@ Seagoing: +44 (0) www. For more information and to buy visit Employment Reviews Sector Advertising Salary Surveys Industry News

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