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Becoming A Seafarer Changed my Life

Being a marine engineer or a seafarer isn’t a career that I can say I always knew I wanted to do. Actually, I wasn’t very aware of this field until my first year at Antigua State College. During my early years of high school I actually wanted to be a chef. I quickly...

WMU Special Award for Outstanding Alumnus 2014

Founded in 1983 by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the World Maritime University (WMU) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It is a center of excellence for maritime post-graduate education and research and offers M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs as...

Fulcrum Maritime Systems Limited

London 10 April 2014  The Antigua and Barbuda Department of Marine Services and Merchant Shipping (ADOMS) and the St. Kitts & Nevis International Ship Registry (SKANReg) have jointly formed the Caribbean Cooperative Data Centre for Long Distance Identification and...

Caribbean MOU – Press Release

Caribbean MOU on PSC completes inaugural CIC on MARPOL Annex I March 11, 2014   Ships adhering to MARPOL Annex I within the CMOU region   From September 1, 2013 to November 30, 2013, the Caribbean MOU carried out a Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on MARPOL...

2008 Re-Certification Audit

  ISO 9001:2008 Re-Certification Audit of the Department of Marine Services and Merchant Shipping On January 30th, February 20th, 25th and 26th, 2014 the Department of Marine Services and Merchant Shipping (ADOMS) successfully completed an external ISO re...

Paris MOU Press Release

Preliminary results from the Harmonized Verification Programme (HAVEP) on passenger ships, carried out between 1 January 2013 and 31December 2013 in the Paris MoU region show that:   See link below for full release Press release preliminary results HAVEP...

Fishermen rescued off West Africa

The Antigua & Barbuda Flag vessel Shirkan C , under the command of Captain Jankowski Ireneusz  was recently  involved in a  successful rescue operation of four fishermen from their sinking boat off the West African Coast. The Captain and all on board the Shirkan C...