Spinnaker.
Your maritime recruitment experts.
Since 1997 we have brought the latest HR thinking to the maritime world.
The world's largest maritime HR conference, offering networking opportunities with industry leaders and expert-led sessions on current maritime HR challenges. A vital gathering for global shipping HR professionals.
Agenda & Speakers
Discover HR topics on the agenda and our 2025 speakers.
Location
Find out the location of this year's event and best way to get there.
Secure Your Space
Choose your ticket options and networking opportunities.
Awards
View the 2025 award categories, and find out how to enter.
Spinnaker. Your maritime people experts.
We specialise in maritime careers, executive search and maritime HR services.
Whether it’s finding the next step in your shipping career, building your leadership skills, helping you grow your team with the best talent, searching for your next Chief Executive, or providing HR expertise to your organisation, we give you confidence that you have a partner with the experience to deliver.
We know your industry inside out. Founded by shipping people, we’ve been supporting maritime companies and organisations from boardroom down in over 80 countries worldwide since 1997.
Our recruitment, maritime executive search and maritime HR specialists are passionate about understanding your business culture and challenges, and delivering fast and effective HR solutions tailored to your maritime needs.
And because we have the industry’s largest source of total compensation benchmarking data, we provide unique intelligence and insights into the rapidly changing world of work.
BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS FOR
Over 25 years
Supporting maritime companies with their recruitment and HR needs for over 25 years.
SUCCESSFULLY PLACED PEOPLE IN
80 countries
Including many executive and non-executive roles for private and public shipping companies.
Featured jobs
Hear from successful candidates and clients from all over the world
Changing Course: Navigating shipping & maritime HR with expert industry insights
More changing course articles >Sign up to receive Changing Course into your inbox!
Hot Jobs – Top 10 maritime vacancies – March 2025
For over 25 years, Spinnaker has been assisting shipowners, shipmanagers, oil majors, and P&I clubs in fulfilling their recruitment requirements. Every day, we receive a constant influx of new job openings, all conveniently listed on our website. To simplify your job search, we have handpicked a collection of the ten most sought-after positions available right…
2025 Spinnaker Maritime People & Culture conference – agenda finalised
The agenda for the 2025 Spinnaker has been finalised with informative sessions and speakers agreed for the 2 –day event taking place on the 14 & 15 May in London. The event will take place at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London City within the famous London Wall and touching distance of the iconic Tower Bridge….
Why you don’t have time NOT to mentor
In an increasingly busy world, it is all too easy to focus on duties, to-do lists and targets at the expense of nurturing human connections. Yet, so often, it is the support of our colleagues and people around us that ensures we get the job done. None of us can work in a vacuum, especially…
I wanted to congratulate you on this high quality event. You always find the way to get creative and resourceful in identifying interesting themes that will help us all become better business partners and that will therefore help the whole industry moving forward. We already see the progress that the industry has made in the past few years and I think you can proudly say you are part of making the movement happen.