Spinnaker.
Your maritime recruitment experts.

Since 1997 we have brought the latest HR thinking to the maritime world.

Where will your next opportunity take you?

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.

  • London, United Kingdom
  • 14th & 15th May 2025

Agenda & Speakers

Discover HR topics on the agenda and our 2025 speakers.

Location

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Awards

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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.

Hear from successful candidates and clients from all over the world

I can’t believe it has been 10 years that we have been working together! With Spinnaker having filled multiple roles for Fednav, compromising several different areas of expertise, we always count on Spinnaker to be highly knowledgeable, connected and well respected in the industry. The service is always good and we know we can rely on you to support our mutual values of trust and integrity. I hope and expect to be working together for many years to come. We look forward to our next mandate.

Paul Pathy
President & CEO, Fednav

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