Crew & Visa Services

Afrishore handles full crew logistics for offshore and onshore personnel and third-party technicians across South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique: visa and work-permit processing, immigration optimisation, flight coordination, accommodation and transport, crew-change coordination and medical evacuation.

Drilling and subsea campaigns bring multiple discipline crews and international specialists into the region simultaneously, each with their own visa, immigration and travel requirements against a dynamic project schedule. Afrishore coordinated exactly this through dry docking schedules, marine projects and exploration campaigns: every visa, every entry, every rotation handled so personnel arrive on time and compliant.

Immigration across South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique means three distinct visa and work-permit regimes, each with its own lead times, documentation and entry rules – against a project schedule that does not bend around them. Afrishore has processed over 15,000 visas across the region, moving drill crews, subsea technicians and specialist contractors through dry-docking schedules, marine projects and exploration campaigns so personnel arrive on time and compliant. The same desk coordinates flights, accommodation, ground transport and crew-change logistics, and stands up medical-evacuation arrangements when an offshore situation demands it.

Beyond the paperwork, crew logistics is a coordination problem measured in hours: a flight that slips, a permit that lands late or a crew change that misses the vessel's window can hold an offshore unit on standby at significant cost. Afrishore plans rotations backwards from the operation – immigration optimisation and compliance first, then flights, ground transport and accommodation sequenced so each person clears the airport and reaches the quay, vessel or rig on time. The same service supports third-party technicians and specialist contractors mobilising into a campaign, not only a vessel's own crew, so an operator can bring multiple disciplines into the region on one coordinated plan rather than chasing several travel desks at once.

Run alongside Afrishore's agency, supply-base and logistics operations, crew and visa services close the loop on a fully integrated shore-side operation.