V.Ships

V.Group Limited, with his daughter V.Ships based in St Johns on the Isle of Man, by his own admission is the world's largest provider of ship management services. The privately run group bereederte in 2008 a fleet of over 1,000 vessels. Worldwide presence in 70 offices with 1,600 employees, the company currently employs over 24,000 people on board of ships.

History

Already in 1984, summed up the Russian-born and operating from Monaco Reeder Boris Vlasov numerous together both by himself and previously founded by his father Alexandre Vlasov nautical companies under a parent group called V.Group. The Group's most internationally famous and most significant companies was Sitmar Lines, the global cruise industry and also the passenger shipbuilding primary feature 1938-1988.

After the death of Boris Vlasov in 1988, the heirs belonging to the Roman family Lefebvre, the group led by the names V.Group or V.Ships. They developed it into a global company in the field of services to the shipping industry. In July 2011, the Group of OMERS Private Equity, the private equity subsidiary of a Canadian pension fund, was acquired.

Activities

V.Ships offers numerous services through various companies in the shipping industry to.

Ship Management & Manpower Services

V.Ships based in Monaco is a provider of marine services to more than 1,000 ships. These include the ship management of tankers, container ships and research vessels through worldwide offices.

• By V.Ships Leisure with offices in Monaco, Miami, Singapore and Southampton V.Ships covers the leisure sector and provides integrated deck and engine management and hospitality services for cruise ships, ferries, yachts and other passenger ships. In addition, consulting services for the renovation and refurbishment of cruise ships.
• The daughter of V. Hospitality offers Catering Services for the cruise, ferry and mega yacht industry. The services are divided into hotel management, staff recruitment and development, catering and consulting.
• Are involved through the joint venture V.Delta with offices in Monaco and Raisio where V.Ships and Finnish Delta Marin Group of 50 percent each, a range of services for the conversion of a ship is offered.
• V.Ships Manpower Supply is the largest employer in the international maritime with over 24,000 employees on land, offshore or at sea. Offered are staffing solutions for maritime tasks for owners and operators of ships and drilling rigs and shipyards.
• About the company V.Ships catering more than 20,000 meals for the seafarers on tankers, container ships, ro-ro ships and bulk carriers as well as other employees in locations around the world are provided daily. V. Ships Catering was founded in 2002 as first-class catering business for cargo ships on the basis of the passenger ship models over the years by V.Ships Leisure.

Marine & Offshore Services

The power spectrum of the Marine & Offshore Services includes personal and asset management for the energy sector, maintenance and repair, technical advice, logistics, training, insurance, bridge communication and underwater repairs for owners and operators of ships, shipyards, oil and gas producers and developers and operators of offshore and coastal projects. For Marine & Offshore Services include the following subsidiaries: V.Ships Agency, Marlins, SeaSolve Marine Logistics, SeaSquad, seatec Engineering, The Adjusting Group, UMC and Offshore Services.

• V.Ships Agency based in Dubai and offices in seaports worldwide offers a complete range of services to owners, operators, charterers and managers of ULCCs (Ultra Large Crude Carrier), cruise ships and yachts.
• Marlins is a provider of English language instruction and computer-based training programs that cover all aspects of seamanship tasks.
• SeaSolve Marine Logistics is dedicated to the procurement and delivery of all required in shipping spare parts in consideration of special emergency situations and ship movements. Offices are located in Amsterdam, Dubai, Genoa, Glasgow, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Houston, Incheon, Kastrup, London, Miami, Nice, Osaka, Oslo, Rotterdam, Shanghai, Singapore.
• Seatec Engineering based in Glasgow and offices in Dubai, London, Shanghai and Singapore offers a comprehensive range of services and products for shipping, offshore and defense industries. The range of services includes engineering services, repair, monitoring, safety, environmental and risk management.
• UMC based in Southampton offers a global network of specialized services for the repair and maintenance of underwater areas. The services include, among other repairs of underwater platforms, installation and replacement, wet welding, sealing, coating and adhesive application. Offices are located in Plymouth, Southampton, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Gibraltar, Algeciras, Barcelona, Marseille, Livorno, Civitavecchia, Malta, Piraeus, mountains, Las Palmas, Istanbul, Alexandria, Cape Town, Durban, Karachi, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Freemantle, Sydney, Hong Kong, Shandong, Qingdao, Ulsan, Hiroshima and Kobe.
• Offshore Services has offices in London, Monaco and Stavanger to the full range of services that require offshore companies.

Furthermore V.Ships with SeaSupplier to Marcas ( Marine Contracting Association Limited ) an interest group of maritime companies for the purpose of contract negotiations and competitive in order to obtain prices for consumables such as lubricants, chemicals, gases, welding and cooling agents, dyes for underwater and dry coatings involved, fuel and spare parts, communication services, and departure of crews, weather and routing tables, and drug and alcohol testing.

V.Navy

About V.Navy with worldwide offices providing services for naval forces:

• "Through -Life Management", offers by the V.Navy against the backdrop of budget cuts to services for optimizing costs, reducing service times, improving fleet sustainability and the technical equipment.
• " Financing Solutions"; of the study to disposal V. Marine offers solutions for the optimization of the financing taking into account the normal aging of the fleet and bases.
• V.Navy Ship Recycling provides services that dismantling European military ships are required.
• V.Navy Security at Sea has developed services for analysis of security risks and gaps.

Capital Services

Capital Services provides commercial and financial services, including a variety of sales and leaseback options with offices in Hamburg, London, Shanghai and Singapore.

• V.Ships Financial offers financing solutions for all types of ships from the cruise ship to the FPSO special vessel (Floating, Production, Storage and Off- Loading System). In the German capital market V.Ships Financial operates, inter alia, through the joint venture AL Ships with KGAL group of Grünwald near Munich.
• V.Ships broker acts as a shipbroker. Offices of V.Ships Brokers are based in London and Shanghai.