Changing Course

Changing Course

Spinnaker is your source of the latest global shipping & HR insights. Providing regular content from industry experts covering market trends, recruitment, executive search, maritime HR and much more. Be sure to check back daily for the latest news.

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Market Insights

Human Capital in the Spotlight at Europort 2025

  • Aug 19, 2025
  • Reading Time: 3 mins

Human capital will be a major theme at this year’s Europort exhibition and conference, with the  IMO-WISTA Women in Maritime Survey 2024 providing a renewed wake-up call on gender inequality as shipping’s recruitment and retention issues continue. Amid a continuing skills shortage, the persistent lack of gender diversity and inclusion in the maritime workforce only…

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Market Insights

Open doors for young talent with Career Ready

  • Aug 14, 2025
  • Reading Time: 3 mins

All too often, young people’s futures are shaped not by their talent or hard work, but where they grew up or who they happen to know. This prevents many young people from achieving their potential – and blocks employers from connecting with fresh talent and new ideas. That’s where Career Ready comes in, and where…

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Human Resources

From Reactive to Predictive: How AI and Preventive Care Are Reshaping Maritime Healthcare

  • Aug 7, 2025
  • Reading Time: 4 mins

For generations, maritime healthcare – like much of healthcare globally – has relied on a reactive model, responding when something goes wrong. While this approach has saved lives, it’s no longer enough in today’s high-pressure, high-responsibility environments, especially at sea where isolation, long shifts, and limited medical access make early intervention critical. Which is why…

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Market Insights

When the Compass Lies: Navigating the New Era of Hybrid Maritime Threats

  • Aug 6, 2025
  • Reading Time: 3 mins

There’s a deeply unsettling new phenomenon occurring in the world’s busiest shipping lanes. In the first half of 2025 alone, thousands of vessels in the Baltic and Red Seas reported their GPS positions suddenly leaping by thousands of miles, sometimes placing them in the middle of an airfield before blinking back to reality. This isn’t…

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Recruitment

Hot Jobs – Top 10 maritime vacancies – July 2025

  • Jul 31, 2025
  • Reading Time: 5 mins

For over 25 years, Spinnaker has been assisting shipowners, shipmanagers, oil majors, and P&I clubs in fulfilling their recruitment requirements. Every day, we receive a constant influx of new job openings, all conveniently listed on our website. To simplify your job search, we have handpicked a collection of the ten most sought-after positions available right…

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Market Insights

The Unseen Threat: Why Your Biggest Cyber Risk is a Supplier You’ve Never Met

  • Jul 31, 2025
  • Reading Time: 3 mins

Imagine your vessel is delayed, not by weather or mechanical failure, but by a software glitch in the engine controls. The investigation eventually traces the root cause not to a sophisticated hack, but to a routine software update. This update was delivered months ago by a small third-party company that services the diagnostic tools for…

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Market Insights

Keeping up with changing times

  • Jul 24, 2025
  • Reading Time: 6 mins

The maritime industry is grappling with a growing wave of recruitment challenges – ranging from an aging workforce and skill shortages to evolving regulatory demands and fierce global competition. It isn’t a secret that the sector has faced a shortage of skilled workers who are young, tech savvy and want to devote their entire careers…

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Market Insights

Navigating the Balance Sheet: Why Your Ship’s Digital Health is a Multi-Million Pound Question

  • Jul 24, 2025
  • Reading Time: 3 mins

For generations, assessing a vessel’s value was a comfortingly tangible affair. You could kick the steel, listen to the thrum of the engine, and run a knowing hand over a freshly painted hull. A ship’s worth was a matter of tonnage, class, and a distinct lack of rust. A surveyor’s report was the final word….

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