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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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By: Eve Church

Keeping track of who is who can be challenging when interviewing a lot of seafarers. How can evaluation forms make maritime recruitment easier?

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By: Tricia Tan

If you’ve applied for seafarer jobs through Martide, employers and manning agents can communicate with you about your applications through our messaging feature. When you create an account with Martide you’ll be given your own private inbox - here's how to get the most from it.

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By: Eve Church

Are you looking for a simple way to solve your maritime recruitment challenges? Martide has created a mobile app for seafarers that gives them easy access to all of your jobs at sea. It also allows you to stay in touch with them (and them with you) no matter where in the world you both are.

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By: Eve Church

Unfortunately there are too many unscrupulous companies out there posing as maritime recruitment agencies, manning agents or crewing agencies whose sole purpose is to rip off seafarers

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By: Eve Church

If your department is still using manual methods and physical filing systems, not only is this far more time consuming and inefficient, it also slows down the hiring process for your seafarers.

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By: Eve Church

What's the best crewing software for shipowners and manning agents? How do crewing systems compare? Let’s check out Martide and CrewInspector.

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By: Tricia Tan

In this post we’re going to be taking a look at one of the lesser known merchant ships: The mining vessel. So if you’ve ever sat down and Googled “what is a mining ship” or “what is a mining vessel” you’re in luck!

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By: Eve Church

Inspiring seaman quotes in Tagalog! Wag mo hayaang sumasabay ka lang sa agos ng dagat. Minsan, dapat ikaw mismo ang kokontrol ng direksyon nito.

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By: Tricia Tan

Times have changed and deciding whether or not to "go digital" is no longer something you can afford to consider in maritime recruitment today. If you're not embracing technology in your shipping company, you're going to fall behind your competitors.

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By: Eve Church