About Us
Our Vision & Mission
Vision: To be a trusted global maritime partner, recognised for quality, integrity and practical solutions that strengthen safety, compliance and operational excellence.
Mission: To support shipowners, ship managers and maritime professionals through high-quality training, simulator-based programmes, audits, inspections, consultancy and digital solutions tailored to real operational needs.
Quality Policy
At Charted Waters, our mission is to achieve the highest levels of customer satisfaction by consistently delivering reliable and exceptional maritime quality assurance services. We are fully committed to complying with all applicable statutory and regulatory requirements, while maintaining the highest standards of safety, integrity, and professionalism in everything we do. Through a culture of continual improvement, we regularly assess and enhance our systems, embrace innovation, and invest in the growth of our people and processes — ensuring our services remain effective, forward-looking, and aligned with global best practices.
Charted Waters operates an ABS-certified ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System and is also an ABS-approved Maritime Training Centre.
Leadership Built on Maritime Experience
Capt. Awadh Kishore
Master Mariner | MBA, IIM Mumbai | AFNI | Founder & CEO, Charted Waters
Capt. Awadh Kishore is a Master Mariner, MBA from IIM Mumbai and AFNI, and the Founder & CEO of Charted Waters. His maritime career combines extensive seagoing command and tanker operations experience with maritime training, auditing, consultancy and quality assurance.
Having worked across vessel operations and shore-based maritime services, he founded Charted Waters with a focus on delivering practical, operations-driven solutions to shipowners, ship managers and maritime professionals.
Today, he leads Charted Waters across maritime training, simulator-based programmes, vessel inspections, audits and compliance, consultancy and the development of digital solutions for the shipping industry.
Our Team
Charted Waters brings together experienced maritime professionals with expertise across ship operations, maritime training, simulator-based training, audits, inspections, compliance and quality assurance.
With more than 50 years of collective maritime experience, our team combines practical seagoing knowledge with technical and regulatory expertise to deliver solutions that are relevant, practical and effective in real-world operations.
Let’s collaborate to safeguard your vessels, teams and environment.
Talk to our team about your training, audit, inspection, compliance or digital-solution requirements.
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