V-Ships provide support services to international shipping. Its Manpower Management Services cluster encompasses the recruitment, deployment and management of deck and engine sea staff as well as staff offering particular skills and expertise. One of the vessel managed by V-ships is the Tradewind Force which is leasesd by Ventrin Petroleum Company Limited (Ventrin) to carry out bunkering operations. Ventrin is a subsidiary of Staatsolie – the State Oil Company of the Republic of Suriname. Ventrin is a marine bunkering company supplying bunker fuel to international vessels calling at ports and anchorages throughout the island of Trinidad. Based in the port of Point Lisas, Ventrin delivers bunkers primarily along the western coast of Trinidad in the normally calm waters known as the Gulf of Paria. The twin island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is the most southern island of the Caribbean and is usually outside of the main hurricane belt.