Author: MSAteam

Viking Crew part of the Viking Maritime Group is delighted to announce a new partnership to provide marine flights and deployment solutions with Henley Travel Limited.

Henley Travel Limited was founded as an independent IATA accredited travel agent over 20 years ago to provide the best possible marine fares to its ship management customers. This partnership with Viking Crew will allow us to provide a continued and enhanced service to our international portfolio of cruise lines, superyacht and specialist clients as well as to Captains, Crew and maritime industry professionals directly.

The Viking Crew deployment travel team, based in Dover, will work in partnership with Henley’s team based in Cyprus, both having access through the booking portal to all the major carriers worldwide, as well as full access to the low-cost carrier’s airlines.

Commenting on the new working partnership, Mark Crawford, Managing Director of Henley Travel said, ‘Henley Travel as a marine travel specialist, is delighted to announce its partnership with Viking Crew, which will allow them to offer the very best rates to their clients also’.

Matthew Jaenicke, Group Managing Director of Viking Maritime Group added ‘working in partnership with the team at Henley Travel allows us to strengthen and grow in what we are in the business of providing, which is full crew management including marine travel to our global clients within the maritime industry. I am very excited at this new collaboration.’

For Viking Crew’s clients, they will see no change in the service and product delivery, as they will continue to work with the Viking Crew Management and Deployment Team on a daily basis.

For more information to check availability and obtain a quote please:
ca 11 +44 300 303 8797

email travel@vikingcrew.com
or visit https://www.vikingcrew.com/deployment-travel/

For more information on Henry Travel, please visit

https://www.linkedin.com/company/henley-travel-ltd/about/

https://www.facebook.com/HenleyTravel

https://twitter.com/matrixmarinegrp

Viking Maritime Group Chairman and Founder Dieter Jaenicke recently returned from COP26 – the 2021 United Nations climate change conference in Glasgow as a representative of Britannia Maritime Aid.

For nearly three decades the UN has been bringing together almost every country on earth for global climate summits – called COPs – which stands for ‘Conference of the Parties’. In that time climate change has gone from being a fringe issue to a global priority.

World leaders arrived in Scotland for the 26^th United Nations Climate Change Conference, alongside tens of thousands of negotiators, government representatives, businesses and citizens.

Dieter attended the event as a representative of the Britannia Maritime Aid, a registered charity which aims to deliver emergency aid and ocean advocacy, while also helping to train the next generation of British and Commonwealth seafarers.

The BMA intend to operate a British-built merchant ship, manned by UK and Commonwealth seafarers, which will operate as a disaster relief platform and a sea training vessel for cadets, apprentices, and non-seafaring trainees.

It will provide an effective and regular means of directly delivering UK overseas humanitarian aid and skills training on a year-round basis to UK overseas territories communities in need, and when required, to provide direct, fast and cost-effective emergency response to disaster hit islands and coastal commonwealth countries.

COP26 was an amazing opportunity for the BMA team, supported by the Viking Maritime Group to showcase the superb 1:100 scale model of the BMA ship.

The detailed model allowed them to demonstrate the unique characteristics of the World’s first dedicated HADR/Training Vessel and discuss how such ships could be built. The aim being, to effectively deploy the ships to Countries dealing with the increasing severe consequences of Climate change.

The Viking Maritime Group as a company were proud to be able to help facilitate the BMA’s presence at the event by supplying the backdrop and pop ups for the BMA stand.

COP26 was the ideal platform for the BMA team to discuss their plans with dignitaries such as HRH The Princess Royal and Kitack Lim, the IMO Secretary General, along with many leading figures in the UK Maritime Industry.

During the event, Dieter was also fortunate enough to be able to attend the COP26 International Maritime Hub, hosted by the City of Glasgow College in association with Maritime UK.

Viking Maritime Group is proud to have been selected as finalists in not one, but two categories in the prestigious Kent Excellence in Business Awards (KEiBA) this year.

KEiBA is an awards scheme staged and produced by the KM Media Group and Kent County Council to recognise and reward excellence in businesses in Kent and Medway.

It is such an honour for the VMG to have been recognised in both the “Success in International Trade” & “Family Business of the Year” categories. Both categories had extremely strong competition from other businesses and VMG are proud to be named alongside such prestigious businesses, such as Hornby, Shepherd Neame and GSE to name but a few.

It was a pleasure to welcome the KEiBA judges to our Dover office and showcase all we have to offer to the Maritime Industry, from our crew services to training to cadetships.

Making it to the final of the KEiBA awards in 2 categories is an accolade we as a team and a family are very proud of.

Congratulations to the Success in International Trade winners, Bigjigs Toys and the Family Business of the Year winners, Team HARD Racing Limited.