About Precious Associates

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Precious Associates (PAL), established in 1989, provides specialist consultancy services in all areas of the people side of shipping.  Our focus is to improve the effectiveness of management operations in three key areas:

  1. Providing information relating to Human Resources - such as through marine wage / salary surveys

  2. Improving management processes at an operational level through our consultancy work with shipping clients

  3. Management training for shipping – including seagoing crew and shore based marine personnel

These 3 key service areas offered by PAL can help shipping organisations improve their management operations. Our services are also useful in helping organisations implement change in accordance to new industry regulations such as the Maritime Labour Convention MLC 2006 and the Manila revision of STCW regulations which now includes Management Leadership and Team working. 

PALhas strong ties with IMarEST and The Nautical Institute who recognise our Maritime Management Development training as being of value to seagoing and shorebased marine personnel.

We also contribute to a number of publications including the Drewry Manning Report, BIMCO Survey and ISF Survey, as well as producing a number of bespoke surveys including the International Tanker Officer Survey and various wage salary surveys. PAL’s General Manager Chris Wincott also regularly attends as guest speaker at manning and training conference events worldwide.

We have developed an extensive marine client portfolio comprising UK and international shipping and marine related organisations, with clients in the UK  / USA / Dubai / India / Philippines and Singapore to name a few. We are proud of our reputation for reliability and integrity within the international shipping sector.  

Our team of Consultants provide extensive knowledge of the shipping industry as well as experience of organisational development and change projects in a variety of organisations. These projects cover all aspects of the ‘people’ side of shipping and our Consultants have consistently developed new approaches to meet the changing needs of the maritime industry.

PALis accredited by Lloyds Register to the BS EN ISO 9001:2008 standard and our quality management system is foundational to the way we operate.

Don’t take our word for it, see what our clients have to say…

“It has been a pleasure working with you”

“The entire course was informative and illustrated by example and experiences the best ways to conduct planning, coaching, making objectives.”

“Well presented, couldn’t ask for a better presenter”

"Very informative and eye opening"

“The style and approach is excellent” Feedback on a report

“A good learning exercise”

“Thank you for the excellent job that you have done at the recent Senior Officer’s Seminar”

“Very relevant to shipping companies”

“Well presented and well explained report”

“Very useful report – data cannot be obtained elsewhere”

“Great training”

“Excellent instructors who kept the course interesting and fluid.”

“The course provided insights and understanding of managerial issues. I will be able to put into practice, theories learnt on course.”

“Enjoyable, well managed and I believe this will be very beneficial.” Maritime Management Development Course
"Course is well structured and encourages participation which allows the theory to be put into practice”

“I learnt that in order to move forward we have to learn, adapt and share”

“The data has proved incredibly helpful in our benchmarking exercise”

“Excellent instructors who kept the course interesting and fluid.”

“Excellent and very comprehensive” Feedback on a report

No client names have been disclosed for client confidentiality reasons.
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