About QA Ship
QA Ship — short for Quality Assurance Ship — is an independent ship management and maritime consulting company serving owners worldwide. The company was founded on a simple observation: individual shipowners and new investors are underserved. Large managers optimize for fleet scale; brokers optimize for closing deals. Owners who want straight answers, honest budgets, and personal responsibility for their vessel are left choosing the least bad option.
QA Ship is built to be the good option. The company is deliberately compact: every client deals directly with the principal, decisions are made quickly, and no vessel is ever “one of three hundred.”
How we work
Senior-level attention
No account managers, no call centers. The person who signs your management agreement is the person responsible for your vessel — reachable, accountable, and involved in the details.
Transparent costs
Owner funds are segregated from company funds. Budgets are agreed in advance, reporting is open-book, and the management fee is the only money QA Ship earns from your vessel. If a number looks wrong to you, you will always be able to trace it.
Flag-neutral, worldwide
QA Ship is not tied to any single flag, registry, or region. Vessels under all major flags are serviced, and the compliance setup — including the Document of Compliance — is arranged around the client’s flag, not the other way round.
Associated experts
QA Ship works with a vetted network of associated specialists — superintendents, surveyors, auditors, and a deputy DPA — engaged per project where geography or workload requires it. Clients get the reach of a larger organization while every engagement stays under one responsible principal.
Who we serve
Two kinds of clients: established shipowners and financial owners (banks, funds) who need compliance management or full technical management for bulk carriers and general cargo ships — and aspiring shipowners making their first acquisition, who need independent, senior-level guidance through an industry that does not forgive beginner mistakes. If you are in the second group, start with the articles in our blog — they were written for you.
When your fleet grows, so do we.
