Martide Blog – Page 46 of 63

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How to Help Your Manning Agency Win More Clients

If you're a manning agency, you don't need us to tell you that you have a lot of competition - especially if you are located in a country where seafaring is one of the biggest professions. So how do you make sure you stand apart from that competition and attract more clients and better seafarers?

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9 Maritime Themed Twitter Accounts to Follow

At Martide we like to share our seafarer jobs on Twitter and we also follow some interesting people whose posts we like retweeting. So we thought we'd share them with you in case you don't already follow them and you're looking for some new, fresh content for your Twitter feed!

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Organizational Tips for Recruiters in the Maritime Industry

When you work in maritime recruitment and crew planning being organized is crucial. You have so many different aspects of the job to deal with that it can feel like you're juggling twenty tasks at once. In fact, maritime recruitment can feel like regular recruitment on steroids sometimes!

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How Are Ships Named?

Virtually every vessel is named, whether it's a merchant navy cargo or container ship, a small yacht used by a family for sailing on their local lake, a canal boat, a military vessel, or a rowboat.

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10 Seaman Quotes About Compasses

Are you looking for some meaningful seafarer quotes about life at sea and nautical equipment and instruments such as anchors and compasses? If so, you've come to the right blog post. Here we've gathered for you a collection of ten quotes about compasses that we think are inspiring and interesting.

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Can I Work in a Seafarer Job if I'm Color Blind?

If you're interested in working in a seafarer job, there are a number of physical attributes that you need to possess. It probably goes without saying that having good eyesight is a must to be able to work at sea, but did you know that seafarers must also pass a color blindness test?

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A Guide to the Different Ranks in the Merchant Navy

On a merchant navy vessel there are a few different departments and a strict hierarchy of seamen and women who work beneath the heads of those departments. But what are those seafarer ranks? Read on and we will take a look at the jobs on a container ship.

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Artificial Intelligence & the Maritime Industry

One of the latest future technologies to be making waves (pun intended) in the maritime industry is A.I. - or Artificial Intelligence. Let's take a closer look at what A.I. can mean for the sector.

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10 Seafarer Quotes That We Love About Sailing

From seaman quotes and sayings to quotes about seafarers, luckily the sailors, authors, poets and adventurers of past and present are never short of a quote for a seaman or two. In this post we thought we'd narrow down our choices to quotes about sailboats and sailing.