LAST MONTH we wrote about the launch of the 2010 BIMCO/ISF Manpower Study on the worldwide demand for and supply of seafarers. This year's report is eagerly awaited especially given the considerable market changes since the 2005 research…
HOW do you fancy a job interview blindfolded at the bottom of a swimming pool sawing a metal bar in half? This is one of the challenges you'll have to get through if you want to become a Salvage & Mooring Officer for the UK Ministry of Defence…
THE recruitment market – both in shipping and outside – recorded strong rates of growth in the final quarter of 2009…
WE'VE been getting a bit of a hard time in shipping of late. Sure, we can do more to improve but an industry that carries more than 90% of world trade while emitting something like 14% of global transport CO2 emissions can't be all bad…
WE'VE ASKED this before, but when does a few of something become a trend? Itâs like that question I was asked in the pub recently about how many cats an old lady has to own before she officially becomes a crazy cat lady…
NOWHERE has the skills shortage been felt as acutely as in the market for technical / shipmanagement staff. Chief engineers in particular have been the one thing that every single shipowner and shipmanager has been desperate for this decade…
CHRISTMAS is a time for giving, a time for friends and a time for reflection…
SPINNAKER has been a supporter of Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and the Anthony Nolan Trust for some years…
THIS gathering of marine personnel folk is always an interesting event and all the more so this year because we heard from some amazing seafarers at both ends of the career spectrum…
Two views on our current predicament…
