Fifty Ghanaian seafarers have been recruited by Swift Management Services, a shipping company in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), following negotiations with Virgins Shipping Lines and Trading Company, a marine consultancy services in the country.

The UAE Company has therefore allotted five vessels to the Ghana coast to that effect. The seafarers recruited include ship masters, chief masters, second mates, chief engineers and second engineers.

The chief executive of the Virgins Shipping Lines and Trading Company, Mr. Jonathan Eghan, who disclosed this in an interview in Accra noted that the boss of Swift Management Services, Mr. Manoj Kumar, had also decided to pay a working visit to the acquaint himself with the activities of seafarers in the country.

He expressed his company?s readiness to take advantage of the amendment of the Ghana law maritime law which now conforms with the International Maritime standards to hook more Ghanaians seafarers to international ship owners thereby creating jobs for them.

?As of now, all efforts are being to penetrate into the Canadian market as well, Mr. Eghan said. He appealed to the government to sing the bilateral agreement to enable more countries recruit Ghanaian seafarers.