Spinnaker.
Your maritime recruitment experts.

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

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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
  • Next Event: 13 & 14 May 2026
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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

David Tubb followed up a recruitment process for a senior role in which I was a candidate. I have found David very professional, able to provide excellent advice and act in an outstanding way both for the candidate and for the client. I would recommend David as recruiter to a candidate or a client and will use his service in future.

Fransesco Sandrelli
Policy Director (Environmental)

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