Shipping arm of Israel's XT Group (ex-Ofer): owns and manages a commercial fleet from Haifa with about 2,500 seafarers; commercial office in Singapore.
I work in the fleet now and the arrangements are unlike anywhere else I have sailed. The employer's obligations are treated as state obligations: courses and certificate renewals happen at company expense with salary preserved, and before a piracy-area transit the crew is exchanged for non-citizens and put back afterwards. The flip side of citizens' privileges is that one of them can be seated in your place for two or three weeks to collect their statutory days, and you wait it out. On board, most of the crew treat work loosely — the standards are carried by a few.