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Training deployments

Multi-port itineraries, cadet movements and ceremonial support for sail training ships, instruction cruises and long fleet deployments.

A sail training deployment is two operations running at once. One is a ship that needs berths, stores, fuel, water and maintenance windows. The other is a programme of receptions, open days and official visits, with a crew of cadets rotating through airports along the way.

Handling each port separately means learning the same lesson repeatedly. We hold the whole track from planning to return, so that the arrangement that worked in one port is applied to the next and the one that failed is not repeated.

What this means in practice

The track is the unit of planning
Crew rotations, stores and maintenance are placed across the full deployment before individual calls are fixed. Ports are then fitted around them.
Ceremonial has its own timeline
Receptions, open days and consular liaison run on a separate schedule and a separate budget line. Merged into the port call, both tend to slip.
Cadets are a movement problem of their own
Documents, visas, flights and accommodation for a rotating complement are planned as a programme, not arranged port by port as each change falls due.
Continuity across flags and consulates
One coordinator deals with every port authority, embassy and consulate along the route, so the ship is not restating its requirements at each new jurisdiction.

Published calendar

Host ports are confirmed years ahead, which is unusual in this work

It makes them the one part of a training deployment that can be planned early. We can coordinate support at calls of this kind.

  1. 2027

    • Bordeaux
    • A Coruña
    • Sines

  2. 2028

    • Kiel
    • Turku
    • Tallinn
    • Szczecin

  3. 2029

    • Arendal
    • Delfzijl
    • Dunkirk
    • Esbjerg
    • Oslo

Source: Sail Training International. Host ports are set by the organiser and may change.

Capabilities used most in this sector

  1. Training deployments and sail training Long training deployments planned as one voyage, not as a list of ports
  2. Naval and port support Port calls for warships and state vessels, held as a single file
  3. Fuel and energy supply Marine, aviation and ground fuel, supplied against a stated specification
  4. Aviation and air logistics Air movements, ground handling and the permissions that allow them

Across every area

What comes with the work, whatever the operation is

These are not a separate service line and they are not charged as one.

One point of contact
A named coordinator holds the file across ports, countries and service lines, and does not hand it on halfway through.
Screening and counterparty checks
Suppliers and subcontractors are checked against sanctions lists before use, and their ownership is rechecked when it changes.
Anti-bribery applied outward
The policy binds our suppliers as well as us. Where a payment is expected that we will not make, the client hears about it.
Tenders and framework agreements
Support to tender submissions, and management of the framework once it is in place, including its reporting obligations.
Cost control and consolidated billing
Costs broken down by port call, mission or deployment. One invoice, with every underlying document available behind it.
Insurance and risk
Insurance coordination including war risk, and risk assessment for personnel movements into difficult jurisdictions.

Tell us what the operation needs, not what you think we sell

Ports, airfields, dates, volumes. Whatever is fixed so far is enough to start from.

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