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Safety at Sea Starts on Shore: A Guide for Maritime Employers

How can you, as a maritime employer, ensure your crews are not only safe while onboard your ships but healthy too? Use our checklist to find out.

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How Maritime Employers Can Build Onboarding Packets That Prepare Crews for Success

Maritime employers play a critical role in shaping a seafarer's first experience with a vessel. And that's where onboarding packets come in.

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How Crew Managers Can Create Happier Ships: A Checklist

As a Crew Manager, how can you make your commercial ships happier, safer and more productive workplaces? Read our blog which includes a checklist.

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How to Improve Company Culture in the Maritime Industry

What is company culture, does your maritime industry organization have a good one, and if not, how can you improve it? Read this and find out.

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How to Look After Employee & Crew Mental Wellbeing

From high risk seafarer jobs to long hours at a desk, employees in the maritime industry can be vulnerable to mental health issues. Learn more.

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Everything You Need to Know About Ship's Master Jobs

Thinking about a maritime career? Interested in ship's Master jobs? Want to know what a Master's duties & responsibilities are? Read this to find out!

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What is the Best Crew Management Software Solution?

Want to know the best crew management software to help you run your maritime recruitment and crew planning ops more efficiently? Find out here.

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How Crew Managers Can Deal with Language Barriers in 2025

Crew management can be tricky due to language barriers. Read Martide's tips for Crew Managers to help stop any lost in translation issues!

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5 Essential Communication Tips for the Maritime Industry

Read our 5 handy tips that explain how to avoid miscommunications and issues with coworkers and crew through better, clearer communication.

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14 New Year's Resolutions for Maritime Industry People

Whether you're a Crew Manager, Recruitment Officer or you work in a maritime job at sea, there's no time like New Year to plan for the year ahead

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10 Tips for Onboarding Seafarers in Maritime Recruitment

Are your Recruitment Officers, Crew Managers and Heads of Department onboarding your new seafarers properly? Read our blog to find out.

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COVID-19 & Maritime Recruitment: Lessons Learned

Maritime recruitment and crew planning saw huge challenges during COVID-19. But what were the issues faced and the lessons learned? We look back.

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The Martide Guide to Navigating Crew Change Challenges

Find out here how to overcome the challenges you face as a Crew Manager or Manning Agent when it comes to crew changes for your seafarers.

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10 Tips to Make Sure Meetings with Your Crew are Productive

Whether you work in crew management or you're a senior officer on a vessel, these tips help you make sure that your crew meetings are productive.

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How to Organize & Store Your Seafarers' Travel Documents

Are you a Crew Manager needing an easier way to store your seafarers' travel documents? Learn about our maritime crew management software here.

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How to Simplify Seafarer Travel with Integrated Solutions

Want to know how integrated maritime crew management software can help your shipping company or manning agency streamline crew travel? Read this.

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Everything You Need to Know About Booking Seaman Flights

If you're new to crew management and crew planning and want to know about seaman flights / marine flights, our blog post has the answers and more!

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World Day for Safety & Health at Work: Supporting Seafarers

As World Day for Safety and Health at Work approaches, are you doing everything you can to support your seafarers? Read on to find out more.

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Why Is It Free for Maritime Recruiters to Post Jobs on Martide?

Want to know how Martide makes money even though we make maritime recruitment free for Crew Managers & Manning Agents? We tell you the secret here!

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6 Tips for Managing Overly-Emotional Crew & Employees

What do you do when someone in your office or on one of your vessels is either always crying or throwing tantrums? Our 6 tips help you deal!

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How to Give Employees & Crew Constructive Feedback

Unless it's worded carefully many people think constructive criticism is just another way of telling them they've done something wrong.

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How to Communicate with Your Remote Teams & Offshore Crew

How do you deal with issues and communicate with teams as someone working in maritime recruitment or crew planning when the people and the issues are geographically all over the place?

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How to Handle Employees & Crew Who Don't Get On

In an ideal world, everyone would get along with one another, but it's a fact of life that not everyone will be the best of friends - or even be able to agree to disagree! So how do you handle that in the office or on a vessel?!

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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.

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Why Great Communication is Essential for Crew Retention

If you're struggling to retain seafarers at the end of contracts there's an issue with your crew retention strategy. Being unable to keep the best seamen and seeing them walk away to line up their next contract with your competitors is frustrating and costly. So how do you stop crew jumping ship?

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4 Benefits Applicants Actually Want (Tip: It's Not Always Money)

There will be a predicted shortage of 89,510 officers by 2026. To prevent this, employers will need to attract and retain as many potential seafarers as possible. We take a look at a few benefits you can offer to appeal to new recruits to offset any potential shortages.

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9 Crew Retention Strategies to Stop Seafarers Jumping Ship

Attracting good seafarers during your maritime recruitment ops is one thing. Keeping them is another! Here's 9 crew retention strategies to help.

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What Do Your Seafarers REALLY Think About You?

As a shipowner it's hard to know what life is like for the seafarers who work for you. If only there was a way to get feedback from your crew. The good news is, there is. It's called Forms and we've created it in Martide for employers who want honest answers to their most pressing questions

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Why Listening is Vital for Crew Retention

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing the best of your candidates finish a contract, disembark from your vessel, head home for a rest...then disappear never to be heard from again. Crew retention issues are stressful! Here's why listening is a crucial tool in the war against vanishing crew.

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How Transparency Can Improve Your Crew Retention Rates

In this blog post we're going to examine another way you can create better and more honest engagement with the seamen and women who apply for your maritime job vacancies, and therefore increase the chances of them remaining loyal to your shipping company. It's time to talk about transparency.

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4 Ways to Motivate Staff to Make Crew & Employee Referrals

If you're thinking about implementing an employee referral scheme in your shipping company to help fill your seafarer jobs, it's only going to work if you know how to motivate your staff to participate in it. So just how do you go about doing that? Martide has the answers.

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How to Turn Your Employees into Brand Advocates

Not convinced that your employees and contractors can help you fill your vacant seafarer jobs? What if we told you that your employees' social media posts are likely to be way more effective than your official business or company page? How much is 'way more'? It's about eight times more.

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How to Boost Crew Retention with Tolerance & Diversity

It's no secret many shipping companies struggle with employee and crew retention. Indeed, it's no secret many companies, in any industry, have problems recruiting and retaining staff. So what can be done to tackle this? After all, losing crew to your competitors is not only annoying, but costly too.

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Boost Your Maritime Recruitment Efforts with Employee Referrals

Filling empty seafarer jobs with qualified crew can be time consuming and frustrating. You can remove some of that headache by encouraging your contractors and employees to refer friends, acquaintances and former co-workers they think will be a good fit for your shipping company.