Tsakos Shipping & Trading traditionally strives to motivate and promote an active safety culture throughout the Group and its vessels. A commitment to safe shipboard operations and environment protection awareness is emphasised within the Company's procedures and the curriculum of its training establishments on the Hellenic island of Chios and in the Philippines.

Comprehensive training procedures are practiced both ashore and throughout the Tsakos managed fleet.


Theme presentations and seminars are held weekly, throughout the year in the Athens head office fully equipped 100-seater auditorium.  Both the seafarers and office staff attend the weekly sessions.  Each week the topics vary to cater for all aspects of the shipping industry.  Each session is conducted by specialists in their chosen field.  In addition, audio visual training techniques are employed to further update the participants.  Each training seminar is videoed and the resulting reproductions are sent to all vessels within the fleet, ensuring the sea staff are kept fully updated and informed. Additionally, the Company has entered into a Training Agreement with Lloyd's Register to promote a more advanced specialised Training Sylabus for both Management and Senior Sea Staff.

Frequently, many of the sea staff attend external training for more focused and specialized needs of the industry or the particular vessel types they will be serving on.

The Tsakos Group sponsors both the Naga and Legaspi Mariner's Polytechnic Colleges, considered to be two of the leading training establishments in the Philippines, which provide the fleet with skilled, dedicated seafarers and junior officers.