The Martracon Group was founded in Limassol, Cyprus in 1993. Since then the Group has steadily expanded and now consists of the following locations
The core business of the Martracon Group is crew management where we provide our clients with professional crew from all over the world on all different types and sizes of vessels. Over the past years, the expertise broadened, and we now provide various ship management services to our clients.
Through the years of experience in the various ship management areas, we can also offer support in the individual areas of ship management. Whether payrolling, eWallet solutions, cost control or other services, you can always rely on our experience, our network and transparent working culture.
We as Martracon are a family owned and run business, independent from any shipping company which is why we can concentrate and focus specifically on our client’s vessels and their exact needs.
The founder of the company, Mr. Otto Boerger, has been in shipping since the beginning of the 1980s. Prior to entering the shipping business he completed his studies with a diploma in Controlling and in Industrial/Business law.
Living in Cyprus he established the company in 1993. From then on the company grew steadily with mostly customers in North Europe and the Mediterranean. With his son Philipp joining the company in October 2013, Otto Boerger took the next step to continue the companies expansion and modernisation. This resultantly led to offices on the Philippines and to new clients in the Far East and other places of the world.
Philipp Boerger gathered his first maritime experience sailing as a cadet at sea in 2004 and then working at Martracon until commencing his studies at Plymouth University in 2005. In 2008 he graduated with an honours degree of Bachelor of Science in Maritime Business with Maritime Law. His dissertation analysed the European crewing market and the future developments and was awarded the AMRIE Prize for the best dissertation on a European Maritime Issue.
Directly after his studies he started his professional career as a Ship Sales and Purchase broker in Hamburg, Germany and completed his MICS. After over five years in S&P he moved on to join the family business in 2013.