Captain Bhaskar Krishna (nee B.K.Radha Krishnan) was a highly disciplined cadet who started sailing the deep seas from Training Ship ‘Rajendra’ in Mumbai,went on to conquer the seven seas and reached the turbulent shores of the Middle East to carve out a vast and expanding marine services business. Captain Krishnan is a leading and well known player in the deep sea ship towing &salvage,and offshore oilfield support services in Dubai, the shipping industry hub of the Middle East. For past sixteen years, he has been serving the marine industry by providing reliable deep sea towage and offshore oilfield support services. Currently the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Regulus Ship Services LLC, a Dubai based company, alsooperates from two other major Asian shipping hubs –Singapore and Mumbai. The Captain has an inspirational success story to share with fellow Indians and the global seafarers.
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The success story of the Indian Captain can be gauged from the fact that starting from humble origins in Kollam,he is now the proud owner of five ships, three leading shipping companies in Dubai, Singapore and India and runs a multimillion dollar business spanning all the major oceans that cover a major chunk of Mother Earth. Guiding a team of professional mariners and crewon the vessels, Captain Krishna has sailed the violent and turbulent seas for two decades. His rich experience and professional training is helping the global towage and offshore industry with a reliable service provider for ships stranded at sea, in distress and in very difficult oceanconditions. Whether the vessel is stranded in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, or anywhere else, Captain Krishna is in a position to dispatch the tug vessel and guide them to safety. Emergency ship towing and ship salvage are highly specialized activities and very crucial to the shipping industry – these services assist in guiding disabled and broken down, dead ships from high seas to safe locations. Captain Krishna has been in the business for over 16 years in Dubai and has an established a name in this niche marine services and in the shipping industry of the region.
Regulus Shipping Services, headed by Captain Krishna has undertaken many challenging and difficult towage assignments ofvarious kinds of vessels – jack up rigs, oil platforms, offshore support vessels, crane barges, pipe-lay barges, dredger etc. The company’s state of the art tugs are fully equipped with certified and approved towing gears, and its highly professional Tug Masters and crew have proved their efficiency by undertaking towage services all over the worldwith zero casualty. Regulus Ship Services has also been very actively involved in providing towage of demolition vessels world-wide. They have undertaken towages of various kinds of scrap vessels across the Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans to the various scrap yards in China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc.Equipped with five Towing Vessels, Regulus Ship Services can guide any ships, big or small, to prevent further damages to the disabled vessels, its crew and prevent damage to the environment.
Captain Krishna, who hails from Mundakkal, Kollam, in the district Kollam, of Kerala, India,had his secondaryeducation from the prestigious Sainik School, Kazhakuttam, near Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala and passed out in 1974. The turning point in his career was joining the Training Ship Rajendra, in Mumbai, India. Ithad replaced TS Dufferin, thathad trained British and Indian marine cadets and produced thousands of smart and competent Indian marine officers and Captains, who are now spread across the marine world. He did two years Marine Officer Cadettraining in Mumbai and then began sailing the high seas. He successfully passed in quick time various promotional Examinations conducted by Ministry of Shipping & Transport (MOT) and sailed in various ranks on various kinds of vessels at sea. Due to his firm determination and hard work, he could successfully qualify for the much coveted Master Mariner position and rose to become Captain at a young age of 27. He went on to command various kinds of vessels – container ships, Bulk Carriers, cargo vessels etc in a career stretching to 19 years.
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During his highly successful career at sea, he sailed with crew from different parts of India and from various countries of the world. Having command of a ship puts the lives of 35 people in his hands and their everyday life is under his administration. This calls for great man management and human relations especially during long sailings when there is no land in sight for days and the morale of the crew can go very low.This widened his horizons by working with various cultures, ethnicity and nationalities and respecting other people for what they are. Capt.Krishna, during his 19 years of sailing, was fortunate to visit most countries of the world with a coastline including Europe, US, South America, Australia and the Far East. He made several voyages to Russia where he learnt Russian Language which he used as his 2nd language for his graduate studies!
He had the opportunity to interact and mingle with various nationalities and learn the various social systems in place all over the world. Unlike these days when shipping has become very hectic, with port stays of the vessels counted in hours rather than days, Capt.Krishna sailed during the days without internet, GPS and satellite navigation and communications. Port stays of the vessels were long sometimes in excess of a month which is unimaginable these days!!
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This gave him plenty of opportunities to study the various societies, their cultures, work ethics, discipline and nationalism prevailing in these countries. These opportunities have stood him in good stead in his future years culminating in his starting his own shipping company in Dubai, UAE and there after spreading his wings to Singapore and India. After 19 years of sailing, Capt.Krishna came to Dubai in 1996 and joined as the Operations Manager of Seaways International LLC, a leading offshore vessel operator Dubai.Within two years, he started his own company, Regulus Ship Services LLC which undertakes towage and salvage of distressed ships, ship management and port agency works? Regulus Ship Services operates all over the world, covering the major oceans, with deep sea tugs, AHT and AHTS. The company also undertakes technical, crewing and commercial management of offshore vessels.
The company has very experienced crew who are very proficient in deep sea towage and offshore support services,such as anchor handling, pipe-lay activities etc. The company maintains the International Health and Safety.
Standards on board its tug vessels. Regulus Ship Services has a zero tolerance level in its drug and alcohol policy on its fleet. All crewon board ‘Regulus’ vessels are recruited after signing a compliance agreement about NIL alcohol / drug use. The vessels also maintain the best environmental policy and avoid pollution at seasat all costs. The strict military discipline that Captain Krishna obtained from his Sainik School training has had a significant influence on his policy of doing business without compromising on ethics and standards. Regulus Ship Services in Dubai and Singapore, are both companies with ISO 9001- 2008 accreditation.
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The company is also a first class provider of round the clock Port Agency Services in Singapore and the two major UAE ports –Dubai and Jebel Ali. The Port Agency services provided by Regulus Ship Services include acting as ship owner’s protecting agents, Charterer’s agents, arrange crew changes and repatriation, procure and supply spare parts and marine stores, supply provisions through reliable ship chandlers and arranging fuel bunkers suppliers.
Capt.Krishna moved with family to Singapore to reside there, when he opened the Singapore Office in late-2005 and lived there with family until late 2011 when he returned back to Dubai. Shipping operations in Singapore was seriously affected after the recession and Regulus fleet found more jobs in Middle East and Mediterranean which the reason for his move back to Dubai.
Anelite member of the prestigious Singapore British Club during his time in Singapore, Capt.Krishnawas a member of the Singapore Cricket Club. A man with a deep love for music – Hindustani ghazals, Bollywood and an ardent fan of Malayalam music – Capt.Krishna has shown his passion for music by giving his ships musical names. He is a strong family man. Son of Late Mr.A K Karunakaran and Late Mrs.K P Bharathi, Capt.Krishna is a married to Mrs.SindhuLR, an Engineer,graduated from the prestigious TKM College of Engineering, Kollam. His life partner is also a business partner —Sindhu Krishna works with her husband as the Director of Regulus Ship Services and Quality Manager in the Company.
The couple is blessed with three smart children. Eldest son Shashikant Krishna, is in the Final year of Graduation in International Finance from University of Richmond, Virginia, US,, Their second daughter, Sagarika Krishna is a law and journalism graduate from the prestigious NUS in Singapore. The youngest daughter, Shivaranjini Krishna, is a Grade XII student of Emirates International School, Dubai.
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