Shipping Master

The post of Shipping Master is a statutory post under the Cayman Islands Merchant Shipping Law. He has to administer the provisions of the Law relating to areas such as superintendence and facilitation of the engagement and discharge of crew, payment of wages and other emoluments to seamen, to their families, treatment of distressed seamen, enquiries into the disputes of seamen and ship-owners relating to service conditions, wages, and the recording of birth and deaths occurring on ships and, where necessary, enquiries in such matters.