After the war in Ukraine, DESE Crew Management, the only Turkish crewing company in Ukraine, officially opened its new branch in Athens, where it will use as the European coordination center.
Çağatay İşbilen, vice chairman of the company’s board of directors, said, “First of all, the war situation in Ukraine has deeply injured us all. Our 4 teammates from our personnel department in our Odessa branch, with whom we have been working for 4 years, are currently actively involved in the war, and we are doing our best to support them morally and financially. We can say that this war not only directly affected the loss of life and property in Ukraine but also negatively affected the world economy, especially the Black Sea. Compared to the millions of citizens who fled the country, slightly more than half of the 75,000 Ukrainian sailors were still on the ship when the war started, although nearly 10,000 of the other sailors in the country left the country. We foresee that this will bring some changes in the nationalities of seafarers working in commercial fleets around the world.
Çağatay İşbilen, vice chairman of the company’s board of directors, said, “First of all, the war situation in Ukraine has deeply injured us all. Our 4 teammates from our personnel department in our Odessa branch, with whom we have been working for 4 years, are currently actively involved in the war, and we are doing our best to support them morally and financially. We can say that this war not only directly affected the loss of life and property in Ukraine but also negatively affected the world economy, especially the Black Sea. Compared to the millions of citizens who fled the country, slightly more than half of the 75,000 Ukrainian sailors were still on the ship when the war started, although nearly 10,000 of the other sailors in the country left the country. We foresee that this will bring some changes in the nationalities of seafarers working in commercial fleets around the world.
One of the events that touched us the most in this process was the petitions they wrote stating that many of our Ukrainian sailors, who continue their contracts on the ship, make collective decisions on more than one ship, and that their salaries should be deposited not on their account, but on associations that assist the families of martyrs and war victims in the Mariupol, Kherson and Kyiv regions. We have full faith that Ukraine will emerge victorious from this war and show an example of bravery to the world with this and a thousand and one similar reasons.”