The choice of careers SSTG can provide for you in the Merchant Navy is considerable and provides exciting opportunities to work on a wide variety of ship types on oceans all around the world. There is a ready potential for you to progress rapidly and quickly secure considerable responsibility.

Great promotion opportunities

The Merchant Navy provides opportunities for candidates to develop an exciting and secure career both at sea and perhaps later on shore. Qualifying for a career as a deck officer, engineer officer or an electro- technical officer will open up a great many opportunities to work in interesting and demanding positions each with their own potential for personal development.

Your ultimate goal may be to qualify to command your own vessel as a master (captain) or chief engineer both of which could be attainable within 10 years for ambitious, hard-working and capable officer trainees. Thereafter you will have many opportunities to develop a further management career on shore in allied maritime sectors be this directly within a ship owners or management company, or in connected fields such as maritime trade, insurance, ship broking, finance or legal arbitration; the opportunities are almost endless for individuals with sea going experience.

Use the links under the 'Your Career at Sea' navigation button in the left-hand panel to explore more about the career opportunities available to you in the Merchant Navy.