Spinnaker.
Your maritime recruitment experts.
Since 1997 we have brought the latest HR thinking to the maritime world.
Celebrating the next generation of maritime talent. The 30 Under 30 initiative spotlights young professionals driving meaningful change across the industry—from technical and commercial to legal, finance and beyond.
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.
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.
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Retention Starts at the Interview
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30 under 30: Stephan Bergmann Johansen
As part of our 30 Under 30 initiative, we’re celebrating the next generation of leaders shaping the future of the maritime industry. Next up is Stephan Bergmann Johansen, who has recently joined Wikborg Rein as Managing Associate within its compliance team, where his practice focuses on international trade, export controls, and economic sanctions. Stephan’s recognition…
30 under 30: Amelia Dunn
As part of our 30 Under 30 initiative, we’re celebrating the next generation of leaders shaping the future of the maritime industry. Next up is Amelia Dunn, Trainee Account Executive at ITIC, and a standout emerging talent building an impressive career within the highly technical world of marine professional indemnity insurance. Amelia supports ITIC’s underwriting…
I can highly recommend Chloe. Within days of chatting to Chloe I had an interview and secured a job that is a great fit for me.
From the initial chat to ensure she was putting me forward for the correct role for me, to interview prep, in depth overview of the company, requirements and bio of interviewers Chloe definitely left me confident in the interview process. I was also very impressed with the aftercare ensuring contracts etc had been sent over and I was fully happy.
Thanks again Chloe. Your a gem.