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Chart Your Path in Maritime Logistics and Supply Chain

Employees working in maritime logistics are responsible for ensuring the safe and optimal flow of goods.

This can include transportation management, equipment control, maintenance and repair.

Working in logistics might also include a level of responsibility for forecasting and planning, customs clearance and storage.

At Spinnaker we are here to help with your next Logistics job role.

Example Job Descriptions

Transportation Manager

These roles have a responsibility for assigning transportation vendors to bookings, coordinating between client, vendor and customs agent, supervising vendors’ services and/or providing route rates for intermodal freight.

Equipment Control Specialist

These staff are responsible for ensuring consistent container supply, container repositioning, handling lost containers, logging and monitoring movements in logistics system and issuing equipment reports.

Equipment Maintenance & Repair Manager

Individuals in this division review and approve repair estimates by vendors, supervise the maintenance and repair of equipment, consider evacuation and total loss declarations of damaged equipment, handle third party recovery of cargo and related damages.

Example Job Titles

Equipment Control Executive, Equipment Control Specialist, Equipment Maintenance & Repairs Coordinator, Equipment Maintenance & Repairs Manager, General Manager, Global Logistics Director, Head of Logistics, Logistics Analyst, Logistics Manager, Logistics Officer, Logistics Supervisor, Manager, Senior Equipment Control Manager, Senior Transportation Officer, Transportation Coordinator, Transportation Services Manager.

Where can I work in a logistics position?

People working in logistics typically work across a wide range of shipping companies, depending on the specific nature of their logistics functions. Logistics positions maybe based in a port or terminal and senior roles may be office based.

Key Skills and Experience

Excellent communication and organisation skills and the ability to work as part of a team are key skills for roles in logistics.

Real Life Stories

Discover the incredible journeys of maritime professionals as they share their career paths, from first voyages to current success. Read their stories, learn from their experiences, and get inspired by their advice.
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Ready to search for your next career in Logistics?

Get in touch 

To find out more about Logistics jobs, please get in touch with the team who specialise in these vacancies.

David Tubb

Director, Recruitment

+44 (0)1702 481630

Liam Daly

Principal Recruitment Consultant

+44 (0)1702 481632

Ollie Mason

Principal Recruitment Consultant

+44 (0)1702 481631

Selecting the next Chief Executive is a vital decision for any business. When that organisation is also a 100 years old Royal Charter based membership organisation with global coverage, it is even more essential to find the right individual who will drive it forward with energy, skill and a sensitivity of approach which reflects the needs of the members both now and in the future. Phil Parry provided an excellent choice of candidates for this demanding role, from which we found exactly the right person. The service from Phil and his staff was exemplary in every way and I doubt that we would have had such a satisfactory outcome without the involvement of Spinnaker.

Tony Dixon
Chairman, Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers

Real Life Stories from Marine Professionals

I started my voyage in maritime at BP Chemicals in Hull, where I was placed into the shipping department as my first training placement. Due to a staff member being ill I was dropped in at the deep end and worked out the job as I went along (following guidance of supervisors of course) This baptism of fire resulted in my falling in love with the industry. On securing a full time role with a local Port Agency and Shipbroking company I learned every aspect of the business from accounting to freight forwarding, haulage and airfreight, agency and chartering, a time which really set the foundations for my career. Finding my specialist passion in Port Agency I took advantage of career development roles with various agencies and took control of my first leadership role in 1989. Moving around the UK and establishing offices in Milford Haven, Grangemouth, Southampton and Tilbury I ventured to the Middle East in 1997 where I lead the largest regional port agency company for 10 years before returning to the UK and establishing a new global agency network. Going self employed in 2017 I have consulted in many varied related markets including maritime software, ship management, crewing and other general management consultancy roles before ending up now with a company specialising in the retrieval and recycling of out of service, subsea, communications cables. Falling right into my ESG ethos I hope to serve the remainder of my career in the logistics management role.

When it comes to qualifications, The Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers is the professional body of my industry along with the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. An MBA also helps.

The unpredictability of the work is what I love most about the industry. No two days are the same, which keeps you fresh and open to new solutions regularly. I love working outside my comfort zone when required to design a system and process to drive to a result for my principal. I’m quite pleased with the amount of travel I’ve done in my career so far, with some 60 countries on my visited list!

My advice to those looking to start out? Be flexible. Never have the attitude of ‘that’s not my job’ …. I team effort, rolling up your sleeves and getting stuck in, is the recipe for success in shipping

Tony Carter
Head of Logistics, Subsea Environmental Services

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