In the challenging domain of seafaring, when crewing agencies choose the right seafarers for their clients, the agency has to consider that the recruited seafarers not only have to produce good results in order to satisfy the ship management and the ship owner, but also they have to improve the...

When considering the overall picture of maritime business, maritime human resources are high on the list of matters that influence competitiveness. During actual crisis, though budgets for training and teamwork activities were reduced, there have been made efforts to gain an awareness of human...

In order to improve maritime human resources recruitment, most crewing and shipping companies implement an internal procedure of recruitment and management of ship’s crew. Based on observations at several crewing companies, this paper presents an example of such procedure meant to ensure that...

The main factor in seafarer management is the human factor. Seafarer management represents HR management as it has characteristics specific to maritime transport. It is a very difficult domain especially when we are talking about crewing, due to specific working conditions, environment,...

Seafarers need to continuously develop their career, at all stages of their professional life. This paper presents some tools of institutional and organisational career development. At insitutional level there are presented vocational education and training tools provided by the European Union...