Martide Blog – Page 47 of 66
- Eve Church
- 05 Jul, 2022
- 05 Mins read
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!
- Eve Church
- 30 Jun, 2022
- 04 Mins read
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.
- Eve Church
- 28 Jun, 2022
- 05 Mins read
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.
- Eve Church
- 23 Jun, 2022
- 04 Mins read
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?
- Eve Church
- 16 Jun, 2022
- 05 Mins read
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.
- Eve Church
- 14 Jun, 2022
- 05 Mins read
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.
- Eve Church
- 09 Jun, 2022
- 04 Mins read
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.
- Eve Church
- 24 May, 2022
- 06 Mins read
How Crewing Software Can Increase Retention Rates
Is crew retention an issue in your small to mid sized shipping company? Do you struggle to fill seafarer jobs and hold on to seamen once the contract is over? If the crew you hire are defecting to your competitors you have a problem. One way to solve that is to implement a crewing software solution.
- Eve Church
- 17 May, 2022
- 06 Mins read
Why Your Shipping Company or Manning Agency Needs a Strong Brand
Whether you're a shipowner, shipmanager or a manning agent, company branding is increasingly important. Read more here to find out why.