Our Company
We are proud of our solid family ethos which is reflected in our customer-centric logic and acute personalized servicing. This ethos is complemented with the most up-to-date technology-driven practices which characterize every single dimension of our professional activity.
Overview
Elvictor Group Crew Management & Training (“Elvictor”) was established in 1977. It is a family owned company and its core services include crewing and Crew Management, whereas Elvictor’s clientele consists of sophisticated and respectable shipping houses. The headquarters manage contractual arrangements with clients while controlling and coordinating activities of the branch offices.
Elvictor has been active across various value-adding activities of the shipping sector such as ship management, technical management, ship agency, crewing and crew management. Mr. Galanakis, over the past few decades, has managed c.35 vessels being a major shareholder in most of them. The strategic intent of Elvictor has gradually been consolidated towards specific activities revolving around the field of crew management, thus creating a dedicated crew management company which keeps shaping the crew-related agenda. The Company has an established network scattered across seafarers’ supplying countries.
Moving Forward: Redefining Crew Management
Our Mission is to intelligently select, ethically recruit, thoroughly train and ultimately nurture the next generation of competent seafarers, who will fully safeguard our Principals’ vessels, in compliance with the strictest legal norms and professional standards.
Our long standing presence in the market makes us fully aware that, in order to achieve the aforementioned mission, we must be consistently value driven.
The values that enrich our everyday practice are the following:
Redefining Ourselves
Risk Management
Pricing Policy
Maintain Brandname
Our Pillars of Existence
Pioneers in assisting Principals meet their Crewing and Crew Management Objectives
REDEFINE
- verb
- re·de·fine
- \rē-di-fīn\
to reexamine or reevaluate especially with a view to change
Innovation
Focused on Internal Restructuring, by Reengineering of procedures through Innovative Techniques resulting in the minimization of man hours, unit costs & human errors.
Quality
Developed and invented KPIs & Benchmarking Tools for optimum automated screening and selection to avoid future claims and Customer Dissatisfaction.
Strategy
Know-How embodied into the System and created “replaceable units”.
Relationship
Building and enchancing interaction among Principal –Elvictor –Seafarer.
Development
Upgraded Principal & Seafarer Intranets and Services. Moves to total social media integration.
Maintaining the Brand Name
Traits 01
Ethical & Transparent Recruitment Approach
Traits 02
Transparency through Intranets and Services
Traits 03
Focused on increasing the value of Servicing
Traits 04
Common Platform for all locations
Traits 05
Personal & Bespoke Servicing
Traits 06
Proactive Approach
Traits 07
Prepare for the Future
Forecast: Elvictor Strategic Solutions
Strategy 01
Elvictor builds trust with its Seafarers and develops their career path.
Strategy 02
Elvictor through its intelligent intranet and selection tools, picks out young & skilled seafarers out of the global pool. Looks into growing the cadetship.
Strategy 03
Elvictor has already applied advanced technology, via automatic procedures, to deal with the complexity of logistics.
Strategy 04
Restless Development and Upgrading of Training Courses for Tankers.
Strategy 05
Elvictor has developed scheduling & matching systems to achieve peerless Port Logistics.
Strategy 06
Elvictor possesses TMSA online tools and has applied them to Bulkers as well.
Strategy 07
The focus on technology and continuously integrating the know-how into the system.
Strategy 08
Elvictor has Successors.
Focus on Innovation
IT innovation and integrated information systems between seafarers, Elvictor and Principals enable swift fulfillment of Principals’ crew management needs, better matching results, and high retention rates. High economies of scale and low-cost base due to IT infrastructure.
Upside potential from economies of scale and cost optimization
Established and well respected brand
Exceptional and innovative services focused on crew management
- Cost structure allows for significant improvement in profitability margins
- Elvictor’s IT platform enables handling of high volumes of ships and seafarers with low incremental cost
- Elvictor has long-standing partnerships with some of the most reputable shipping houses.
- Elvictor has significant presence in countries with major trading ports around the world.
- Advanced IT platform in crew management that supports fast decision making through data analytics, real-time response and comprehensive reporting
- Continuous R&D in product updates
Innovative Services
State of the art Technological Solutions. Always one step ahead.
Year 2002
Principal Intranet
Year 2002
V.O.I.P
Year 2003
Seafarer Intranet
Year 2004
Electronic Library and Cloud
Year 2005
E-mail Reports
Year 2006
Applicant Intelligence Report
Year 2007
Data Migration Bridge
Year 2008
Principal Requirements Checklist Dynamic Tools for Selection
Year 2009
Vetting Criteria Selection Engine
Year 2010
TMSA Compliance & Gap Analysis Tools
Year 2010
Officer Matrix Tools
Year 2011
Crew Scheduling & Optimum Matching tools
Year 2012
Principal Forms and Reports Automation
Year 2014
Human Resources Retention Allocation Engine
Year 2015
Feasibility Report on HR Operations
Year 2015
Comparison Reports
Year 2015
Ex-Crew Availability & Matching Schedule
Year 2015
Facebook and Twitter Posts
Year 2018
Facebook Application for Seafarers
Year 2018
Mobile Application for Seafarers
Proven Quality
Accredications
- 1996 - 1st Crew Manager ISO:9002 Certified in Greece
- 2010 - 1st Crew Manager globally ILO MLC accredited
Prized Vessels
- 2011 - M/V Desert Calm "Ship of the Year"
- 2013 - M/V Alpha "Top Rightship Ratings"
- 2013 - M/V Nordic Orion "1st ever commercial transit of the Artic Northwest Passage"
Ecological Footprint
- 2002 - 1st Crew Manager Globally as a paperless organisation
- 2010 - Relocated to an energy efficient establishment
- 2011 - High Investment in Green Technology
Differentiations
- Dedicated on point of contact
- Investing in the Human Factor across whole organisation
- Continously investing in IT
- Completely transparent organisation
- Add-ons and Bespoke Services Portfolio
- Crew Operations with documented evidence
Operations Optimization
- Pertinent info / documentation is scanned into system
- Automation of Principals' ISM Forms energized
- Know-how continously input into the system
- Shared knowledge disseminated through our client base
- Intersystem bridging
Retention
Significant investment has already taken place towards producing information from various sources of data. In an ongoing process, procedures are redesigned under the sole purpose of achieving excellence and reducing human error.
By utilizing such information Principals’ interest is protected, whereas the offered services remain highly qualitative, thus ensuring that both principals and seamen will remain satisfied.
The Management has fully embraced the latest technological developments so that the optimal and timely solutions are available for the principals and the seafarers.
Based on the Intertanko Retention Formula, where S is the total number of terminations from whatever cause, UT is the unavoidable terminations, BT the Beneficial ones and AE the average number of seamen, ELVICTOR’S Retention Rates (RR%) per vessel category are mostly 90%.
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