We are delighted to note that six new members have joined the Maritime HR Forum in as many weeks taking membership to nearly 40 companies. The Forum is the only source of worldwide, reliable compensation and benefits data for the shore-based shipping industry…

Spinnaker is seeing more vacancies in the offshore support and FPSO markets than we have ever had. This is both technical, in terms of newbuildings, FPSO project management and technical management of offshore fleets, as well as offshore commercial specialists…

When freight rates collapsed in September 2008 it looked like being a long hard winter and while 2009 was a tough year for maritime recruitment, particularly in the commercial market, 2010 couldn't be more different. Spinnaker is seeing a very active market and great successes in all three of its divisions – commercial, professional services and technical…

Whether or not there is a serious shortage of cadets, and whether there are the necessary jobs for them has always been an emotive topic. According to at least one recent press report, the UK Chamber of Shipping was accused by officers union Nautilus International of breaking promises on training seafarers, an accusation the Chamber denied…

The UK Chamber of Shipping and seafarers' union Nautilus may have had their differences over tonnage tax, but they were singing from the same song sheet about reports that the Department for Transport has been asked to find cuts of between 25% and 40%. The Chamber has asked the government not to seek savings from the Support for Maritime Training Scheme, and warned that the withdrawal of the scheme could make it uneconomic for operators to train UK officers…

“Smoothing the Way” is the title of a conference which is being put on by the Maritime Skills Alliance on September 27 at Trinity House…

Three engineering students were gathered together discussing the possible designers of the human body…