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Reliable, safe, and efficient ship management services

Velos Tankers and Velos Dry are expanding ship management companies that provide high-quality, reliable, and efficient global transportation services of energy and goods to the world. Our principal objective is to provide a safe environment for our people and the society. At Velos, we strive to continuously ascertain and enhance our fleet’s optimal operational efficiency while ensuring full compliance with our clients’ requirements and existing or upcoming statutory regulations.

Our fleet is managed by our in-house team of highly skilled, talented, and committed professionals with extensive operational, technical, and commercial expertise in the maritime industry. The Velos team combines marine sea experience and academic know-how, fulfilling a balanced integration of seamanship best-bred practices with technical competence.

Delivering on expectations.
The Velos chartering office comprises of an in-house team of seasoned brokers based in our Athens headquarters. The commercial team undertakes to ensure that the fleet performs and complies with all pre-employment requirements, develops optimal long-term or spot employment strategies, while, at the same time, carries out in-depth market research, assesses employment opportunities, and completes vessel fixtures in a proficient manner. The Velos commercial team leverages on solid, long-standing commercial collaborations and a trusted network of reputable broker houses and first-class Charterers.
Ships are our Homes and Seafarers our Family
The crew department’s objective is to select, recruit, train, and retain a highly-skilled, qualified professional marine workforce who will manage and operate the Velos fleet in accordance with the Company’s requirements and applicable regulations while ensuring the safe and environmentally efficient operation of our vessels.

Seafarers constitute the cornerstone for the safe operation of any vessel. Through rigorous recruitment & induction procedures, continuous comprehensive performance assessments, career development plans, enhanced training procedures onboard and ashore, and firm management’s engagement, we aim to ensure that our crew’s competence levels fully meet or exceed assigned rank requirements.
Investing in people is the key to success.
Fostering solid bonds between the Company’s Management, our shore teams, our seafarers, and their families is an unconditional and shared duty at Velos. These close bonds are solidified through stable, long-term forms of cooperation with our crews, and they are further reinforced through career development programs in parallel with our Company’s expansion. Our seafarers' safety is our top priority, and care for their physical and mental well-being is embedded in everything we do. Cultivating a culture of mutual understanding, respect, accountability, and trust creates an excellent spirit of cooperation among individuals throughout all layers of the organization, both ashore and onboard, and it constitutes a key driving force in providing high-quality operational standards.
Safety embedded in everything we do.
The HSQE is responsible for implementing a sound, efficient, and continuously advancing Safety and Environmental Management System that is capable to abide or even surpass industry requirements through solid leadership and a high level of personal and collective accountability., both on board and ashore.

The HSQE and marine teams comprise of committed, highly qualified professionals with extensive marine backgrounds and sea experience who competently oversee the Velos Fleet and its continuous alignment with applicable Company requirements and international regulations.
Our strategic objectives are to:
- To offer the highest quality maritime transportation services to the industry, with absolute regard to safety, quality, health, and the environment.
- To apply high technical and operational standards and provide a safe and trusted service to our clients.
- To enhance efficiency through continuous improvement.
To meet these objectives and earn our clients' confidence, we strive to maintain a comprehensive Safety, Security, Quality, and Environmental Management system that is always in compliance with ISM & ISPS Codes.
- A highly experienced and dedicated team maintains and implements an Integrated Management System (VMS) to promote Health, Safety, Quality, Environmental Excellence, and Energy Efficiency at all organizational levels through solid leadership and precise personal and collective accountability.
- The principles of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 have been incorporated into the Company's Management, validating our reputation as a reliable, efficient, and high-standard ship management company with world-class clients.
- Our Environmental Policy acknowledges that environmental protection and management stand out at the forefront of our priorities. Our goal is to achieve ZERO spills or releases to the environment and reduction of the permitted emissions aiming to ZERO.
In addition, proactive risk management and continual improvement are promoted by applying and monitoring a framework of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that allow our teams to detect areas of potential improvement and establish appropriate corrective actions timely and effectively.
Committed to deliver. Safely. Reliably. Efficiently.
Our Operations team overlooks and provides operational support for voyage and cargo operations to onboard teams, assuring that all fleet operations are conducted safely, smoothly, and efficiently, delivering the highest quality of services to our clients.

The principal objective of the department is to ensure that operational standards and daily operational practice fully reflect the requirements and expectations of our Principals and Charterers whilst also ensuring that the execution of assigned contracts is carried out seamlessly, safely, efficiently, timely, and adhering fully to applicable rules and regulations.
Safety-driven technical expertise.
The Velos Technical Department team comprises of a pool of experienced and qualified marine engineers, naval architects, and electrical engineers that combine extensive hands-on marine sea expertise with advanced technical know-how. The diverse competencies of the technical team ascertain a balanced integration of seamanship engineering best-bred practices with technocratic competence and technical efficiency. In addition, a qualified team of purchasers supports the technical team in ensuring that the procurement of stores and spares is carried out reliably, efficiently, and timely.
A fundamental objective of the Technical Department is to ascertain that the best maintenance standards are applied on the fleet vessels and that implemented practices fulfill the requirements of the Company, the vessels’ commercial needs, and the industry’s applicable rules and regulations. Moreover, the principal objectives of the Technical department are the following:
- To implement effective and reliable maintenance and repair processes in order to ensure that all fleet vessels operate safely, efficiently, and reliably.
- To continually strive to improve the efficiency of the vessels within their technical capabilities.
- To implement an effective electronic preventive maintenance system.
- To develop a comprehensive dry-dock specification system that will integrate continual improvement processes and technical upgrades.
- To ensure compliance with all statutory and classification society requirements.
- To apply a structured program of frequent onboard vessel visits and via close day-to-day performance monitoring to cultivate solid cooperation with the onboard crew while fostering a strong safety and environmental awareness culture.
- To closely follow up and integrate the latest technological, safety, and energy optimization trends in the Maritime Industry.

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INFORMATION NOTICE AND CONSENT FORM FOR CANDIDATE SHORE EMPLOYEES

The Company hereby informs you about the processing of your personal data, in the context of your employment agreement, and in accordance with the provisions of Reg. (EU) 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data (henceforth “GDPR”) and on the free movement of such data, the provisions of the applicable regional legislation relevant to the Company and shipping practice.

1. DATA PROCESSING AND DATA RETENTION

1.1 The Company processes your personal data collected either from you directly and/or from the Company and/or a third party (e.g., recruiters, et. al.). More specifically, the Company processes personal, passport/ID and communication information, banking, social security and tax data, information about your education and previous and current employment, photo, information about your location (when you board a ship managed by the Company), your marital status and family information, travel information, your communications with the Company, information about your next of kin, health data (including, as the case may be, information relating to your results in psychometric tests), information relating to background security checks, information about your entry/exit from the Company, e-mails that you send from and receive in your corporate e-mail account, calls you make and receive in your corporate mobile phone and work phone, your corporate mobile phone bill as well as any other personal data necessary in connection with the data processing purposes described below.

1.2 The Company processes your personal data during your employment, while such processing will extend after the completion of such employment, and to the extent required in order for the Company to comply with its legal obligations towards the authorities and/or third parties, to comply to any applicable provisions on the obligatory data retention periods or in order for the Company to support its claims or rights.

2. DATA PROCESSING PURPOSES

The Company processes your data in order to ensure its proper operation in accordance with its employee-related procedures, to fulfill its staffing needs, to comply with its legal and contractual obligations, to identify its employees and to ensure the safety of its staff, of the ships it manages and of its premises and the fitness to work of its employees.

3. THIRD PARTY DATA TRANSFERS

3.1 Your data may be made accessible to the Company’s personnel, as well as to third parties, such as the competent authorities, local agents, travel agents, airlines and other agents employed by the Company, technical contractors, investigators and other legal entities employed by the Company, accountants, auditors, lawyers and legal counsels insurance providers and the P&I Club employed by the Company, as well as the latter’s correspondents, the insurance company providing health and travel insurance to the Company’s employees (if you specifically consent thereto), IT companies providing technical or cloud services or i-storage platforms, banks and the companies owning the ships managed by the Company.

3.2 The Company may also transfer some or all of your data for the above purposes to persons located in third countries, non-members of the European Economic Area (EEA). In case where such countries have not been granted with an adequacy decision by the European Commission, any transfer shall take place under the appropriate safeguards in accordance with the Regulation, such as Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the Commission or by the competent national authority, or appropriate contractual clauses between the Company and the recipient of such data.

4. YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to:

Request access to your data and to information relating to the processing of your data by the Company.
Request corrections and/or completion of your personal data.
Request the Company to delete your data.
Request the restriction of the scope of processing, the way that the Company is processing your data, as well as the purposes for which the Company is processing them.
Receive the personal data you provide to the Company in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, transmit them to another data controller, and/or request the Company to directly transmit them to another data controller, if technically feasible.
Object to the processing of your personal data, on grounds relating to your particular situation, and
File a complaint before the competent data protection authority.
So far as the processing relies upon your consent, you have the right to withdraw such consent at any time.

To exercise your rights, please contact the Company as illustrated below at 6.

5. LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING AND OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE DATA

5.1 The Company processes your personal data because the processing is necessary, in order for the Company to:

Comply with its legal obligations, including among others obligations in the field of employment or tax law, or general shipping law obligations.
Fulfill its obligations and/ or satisfy its rights deriving from your employment agreement.
Satisfy its legitimate interests, such as to ensure its proper operation in accordance with its employee-related procedures, to fulfill its manning needs, to comply with its legal and contractual obligations, to identify its employees and to ensure the safety of the ships it manages and of its premises and the fitness to work of its employees.
Establish, exercise or defend legal claims, and/or
Process your personal data pursuant to your consent.

5.2 The above processing is required by law or due to a contract executed between you and the Company. Therefore, if you do not provide us with your data, the execution of your employment agreement may not be possible.

6. COMMUNICATION

You can communicate with the Company as follows:

VELOS TANKERS LTD
VELOS DRY LTD
2, Ioannou Gennadiou Str., 11521 Athens, Greece
Tel: +30 210 7211900
e-mail: hr@velostankers.gr

Delivering on expectations.

Ships are our Homes and Seafarers our Family

Investing in people is the key to success.

Safety embedded in everything we do.

Committed to deliver. Safely. Reliably. Efficiently.

Safety-driven technical expertise.