- Offering a welcome, friendship and practical and spiritual help to seafares around the world through a network of chaplains.
- Running centres where seafarers can relax away from their ships, meet local people, contact their families and find help and advice.
- Highlighting the vital role seafares play in all our lives, representing their needs at local, national and international levels and working for improvements in their welfare.
- Raising support in terms of both time and money from the Church, the shipping industry and others to enable the Mission to sustain and expand its services to seafarers.
- Working in partnership with all those concerned with the welfare of seafarers to ensure their best care.