03 Oct Open Talk Session In Yangon
In these challenging times it is important to recruit competent seafarers as well as retain our experienced officers and ratings. Good retention is best achieved where the crew is valued by the ship operator and where the crew feels a connection to the company.
On 26 May, Uniteam Marine (Yangon) Limited took the opportunity in establishing and maintaining good customer relationships: we hosted the “Open Talk Session”, an event for officers and ratings of our longstanding client Leonhardt & Blumberg Shipmanagement GmbH & Co. KG (L&B).
We consider our seafarers to be “customers” of equal importance to our valued owners and partners. This small event aimed to provide positive engagement sessions with their ship’s owner and managers, which encouraged our poolers to come together and discuss problems, challenges and successes that they encountered on their last assignment.
The event was specifically focused on L&B’s poolers to share their experiences and feedback and to stimulate talk. We invited all L&B’s poolers to gather in the “Uniteam Ballroom” in the Uniteam Building along with owner representatives from the L&B fleet. Our responsible group manager from Cyprus attended online.
Captain Thet Naing opened the event with a welcoming speech, followed by Captain Tin Maung Tun introducing the audience to the participants and the event’s purpose. Our Crewing team’s responsible manager Vlad Ivashchenko and owner representative, Ronald Schnitter (Head of Crewing), had the opportunity to discuss career development, crew welfare, better communication and future vessel prospects.
The event proved to be a constructive and effective platform for sharing experiences, ideas and developing solutions as well as showing our appreciation and respect.
We would like to thank all officers and ratings of L&B poolers for participating and the owner representatives and our colleagues at Uniteam Marine for their excellent arrangement.
The Open Talk session was an excellent communication bridge between seafarers, office personnel and owners. Uniteam Marine will continue with further sessions in the near future.
Phyo Win Nyunt, Senior Fleet Personal Manager (Recruitment & Retention)