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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Attracting women to senior leadership positions in maritime
I recently read an article in HR Magazine (How to build a stronger pipeline of women leaders), which highlighted an interesting disparity. While women account for close to half of the UK workforce (49%), they occupy just 38% of VP-level and above positions. It raises an important question. Why does this imbalance persist, and how…
Making Sense Ashore and at Sea
What happens when we start measuring the full maritime working life? How well can we understand shipping if we only look at one side of the working life? We need to be able to know what seafarers experience and shorebased workers too. A defect reported from a ship can reshape someone’s day in the office…
Two Decades of Maritime Pay Trends
Twenty years ago, Spinnaker’s CEO Phil Parry was approached by a large Singaporean tanker owner looking for robust and independent salary data for the shipping sector. Back then, nothing of this nature existed for the maritime industry despite salary benchmarking being standard practice in other industries. As HR specialists know, there are many benefits that…
Very interesting course. Glad to have taken it! It is always good to refresh/revise my knowledge and get new one.