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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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By: Eve Church

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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By: Eve Church

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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By: Eve Church

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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By: Eve Church

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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By: Eve Church

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.

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By: Eve Church

An Electrical or Electro-Technical Cadet is someone undergoing a cadetship with the goal of learning how to maintain and repair the electrical and electronic equipment and machinery onboard a ship. A cadetship involves time spent in the classroom as well as practical on-the-job training at sea.

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By: Eve Church

A ship’s Steward (or Stewardess) will most often be found working on a cruise ship, a mega yacht or a superyacht. Their main tasks are to help prepare and serve meals to guests, and take care of housekeeping. However, that’s just scratching the surface.

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By: Eve Church

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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By: Eve Church

An excavator driver or AB-excavator driver on a ship is similar to their shore-based counterparts in that their main duty is to safely and efficiently operate plant machinery. The obvious difference is that an excavator on a ship is on deck and used for cargo and salvage operations and dredging.

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By: Eve Church