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Martide blogs for and about manning agents. Topics include why working with a manning agency might be your best option as well as how to find the right manning agent for your company.

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Crew Management Software vs Spreadsheets: Which is Right for Your Company?

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10 Signs You've Outgrown Spreadsheet Crew Management

There comes a point when a spreadsheet stops making life in your crewing department easier and starts creating more work. And it could be costing your company more than you think.

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Why Spreadsheet Crew Management Is Costing Your Company More Than You Think

Spreadsheets are useful. They are familiar, flexible, and relatively easy to use. But they can also become unwieldly when you're dealing with a lot of data. Even worse, they could be costing your crew management department more than you think!

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Maritime Recruitment Agencies: When & Why to Use Them

Wondering if YOUR shipping company should outsource your crew hiring needs to a specialist maritime recruitment agency? Read our blog to find out

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What To Do if a Fake Agency is Advertising Jobs in Your Name

If you've realized that a fake manning agency is advertising YOUR maritime jobs to unsuspecting seafarers, you need to take action. Here's how.

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What Makes a Good Manning Agency in Maritime Recruitment?

If you're a small to medium-sized shipping company who wants to enhance your maritime recruitment operations and you're either looking to work with a manning agency for the first time or you're seeking to switch maritime recruitment suppliers you might be wondering what makes a good manning agent.

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Pros & Cons of Using Manning Agents for Maritime Recruitment

Due to the challenges of controlling recruitment activities, managing expenses, planning the rotation and ensuring seafarers well-being, there has been a number of owners who have decided to hand this task over to specialized crewing providers.

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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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Why Manning Agents Need to Learn to Love Tech

Many manning agents who work with clients in the shipping industry are struggling to stand out amongst their sea of competitors. After all, crewing agencies are two-a-penny in traditional port towns and cities. But what are the reasons behind this issue? And could technology be the answer?

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How to Choose the Best Maritime Recruitment Agency

Are you a shipowner looking for a maritime recruitment agency to fill your seafarer jobs? Maybe you're not getting results from your current crewing company. Perhaps you're hiring a recruiter for the first time. Make sure you choose the right team for the job by reading this post first.

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Why You Shouldn't Cheat on your Maritime Recruitment Agency

You may think that coming from a company who helps shipowners streamline maritime recruitment operations the title of this post is a biased. And you might be right! But stick with us as we explain why only working with one recruitment agency in the maritime industry makes more sense than you think.

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How Up-to-Date is the Maritime Recruitment Agency You Use?

In shipping, not everyone is onboard when it comes to abandoning old practices and embracing new. Do your maritime recruitment agencies fall into that category? If you suspect the companies you use to fill your maritime jobs could be more efficient it's time to take a look at who you partner with.

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Is Your Current Maritime Recruitment Agency Responsive Enough?

If you're a shipowner using maritime recruitment agencies to fill your jobs at sea, you need to know you're getting good value for money. Luckily there's ways to tell if the agency or consultant you work with is fulfilling their obligations, and one of those is looking at how responsive they are.

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Is Your Maritime Recruitment Agency Finding You the Best Seafarers?

Finding the right crew to fill your seafarer jobs is hard if the maritime recruitment agencies you work with aren't doing their jobs properly. You need to be sure the seamen they pick from their candidate database are right. So let's look at how to choose a partner to help you fill your vacancies.

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Why Manning Agents Should Join Our Approved Partner Network

Newcomers to Martide's maritime recruitment and crew management solution might wonder what the difference between our Existing and Approved Networks of manning agents is. So if you're one of those manning agents - or a shipowner - you're in luck as we're going to explain exactly that in this post!