Willem Strydom-Ross

Willem Strydom-Ross heads Marine Services, which manages the vessels and work boats Kestermoor uses for offshore and coastal pipeline work. He is responsible for vessel selection, crewing, marine assurance and the day-to-day readiness of the fleet.

Willem qualified as a deck officer and served for ten years on offshore support vessels and anchor handlers out of Cape Town and Aberdeen before moving ashore as a marine superintendent. He then spent several years managing charters for a North Sea vessel operator.

He joined in 2018 and brought a formal vessel inspection regime based on IMCA guidance. He works between the Takoradi and Mombasa bases, where he checks each hired vessel against the client's marine requirements before it sails.