SCF Group streamlines its technical management business
SCF Group has successfully consolidated its subsidiaries responsible for the technical management of the Group’s fleet of 142 vessels within a new single governance structure. Following this consolidation, the Group’s technical management companies have been rebranded and fully unified under the umbrella brand SCF Management Services, the Group said Tuesday in a press release.
The new structure is governed by SCF Management Services (Dubai) Ltd, headquartered in United Arab Emirates, with branch offices located in St. Petersburg, Novorossiysk, Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, and Limassol (Cyprus).
Two companies within the new structure were designated DOC (Document of Compliance) holders:
- SCF Management Services (Dubai) Ltd for Foreign Flag ships;
- SCF Management Services (St. Petersburg) Ltd for Russian Flag ships.
As part of the consolidation process, the names of several companies within the Group were changed as follows:
- SCF Unicom Management Services (St. Petersburg) Ltd was renamed to SCF Management Services (St. Petersburg) Ltd;
- SCF Novoship Technical Management Ltd was renamed to SCF Management Services (Novorossiysk) Ltd;
- Unicom Management Services (Cyprus) Ltd was renamed to SCF Management Services (Cyprus) Ltd;
- SCF Unicom Management Services (St. Petersburg) Ltd, subdivision in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk was renamed to SCF Management Services (St. Petersburg) Ltd, subdivision in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk;
- Unicom (Vladivostok) Ltd was renamed to SCF Crewing Services (Vladivostok) Ltd.
Looking forward, the Group plans to increase the number of subsidiaries operating under the SCF Crewing Services brand by upgrading the crewing departments of SCF Management Services (St. Petersburg) Ltd and SCF Management Services (Novorossiysk) Ltd into separate companies.
