How to buy a ship
Basil Karatzas is the founder and CEO of Karatzas Marine Advisors & Co – a shipping finance advisory
Basil Karatzas is the founder and CEO of Karatzas Marine Advisors & Co – a shipping finance advisory
There is a new online hub for promoting the shipping industry – from seagoing careers and shore-based opportunities
The biggest ever shore-based shipping salary survey is underway, and will be published in October
We have been hearing a lot in recent times about how upbeat the oil industry is and that offshore is holding its own in a depressed environment…
Spinnaker has 296 live vacancies around the shipping world. Now, they're all exciting of course but here's our pick of the bunch this month…
WHILE it needs to be said that not all ex-pats are getting housing allowances these days, and a lot of companies have been phasing them out, they remain common in the Middle East, far more so than in, say, Singapore.
Salvage companies and other maritime employers can find out how well they pay their staff by joining the Maritime HR Forum to benchmark their compensation and benefits packages for their commercial, technical and corporate staff.
THE Maritime HR Forum is currently conducting a survey of its 43 member companies to establish benchmarks for pay rises and bonuses in 2011. Some 40% of companies froze salaries two years ago, 13% last year and it is estimated that only around 4% will do so this year…
Cambridge Academy of Transport in association with Quantum Shipping Services has structured a series of 1-day seminars in London. The first two in the series are: “Dry Bulk & Container Sectors” on 28th April and “Problem Shipping Loans” on 29th April. THE London Shipping Law Centre's next event is on “Unsafe Port and Berth Obligations”, chaired by The Hon Mr Justice Teare.