Merchant Navy: The Ship Safe Training Group has for over 30 years provided an entry route for officer trainees wanting to develop careers at sea with the Merchant Navy. SSTG provides a recruitment and training service for shipping companies operating a wide range of sophisticated vessels and provides support to the officer trainees whilst at college and at sea. The Merchant Navy careers are incredibly varied, and SSTG will also guarantee that your college education is funded and that you are paid whilst you are training at sea. The Merchant Navy provides opportunities for candidates to develop a 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.