Crew Retention

Employee retention strategies including stability of personnel & how to boost crew retention rates. Read our blog for tips on how to stop your crew jumping ship!

Is Wi-Fi the Key to Seafarer Wellbeing?

Is Wi-Fi the Key to Seafarer Wellbeing?

Seafarers with internet access feel less isolated due to being able to engage with friends and family ashore. The downside is life at sea and relationships onboard are declining due to mariners preferring to spend their downtime with their devices instead of talking to their fellow crew.

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4 Crew Retention Strategies to Stop Seafarers Jumping Ship

4 Crew Retention Strategies to Stop Seafarers Jumping Ship

It's time to talk about your crew retention strategies: the shortage of talent in the shipping industry is at an all time low. Seafarers are increasingly hard to find and crew retention is becoming a thorn in shipping companies’ side. So what can shipowners do to stop crew from quitting?

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Why Great Communication is Essential for Crew Retention

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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7 Employee & Crew Retention Ideas for the Maritime Industry

7 Employee & Crew Retention Ideas for the Maritime Industry

If your crew are abandoning ship and going to work for other companies it may be a sign that you need to implement some employee retention techniques by reevaluating your company’s policies. After all, it’s easier and cheaper to retain talent than it is to be constantly having to fill positions.

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What Do Your Seafarers REALLY Think About You?

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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How to Boost Crew Retention with Tolerance & Diversity

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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How to Turn Your Employees into Brand Advocates

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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Seafarer Happiness & Life on a Cargo Ship

Seafarer Happiness & Life on a Cargo Ship

Life on a cargo ship is demanding and seafarer wellness must be a priority for all maritime industry leaders. Maintaining health and wellness for seafarers not only improves productivity and morale, but also makes it more likely crew members will re-join or be loyal to your shipping company.

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How Transparency Can Improve Your Crew Retention Rates

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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Why Listening is Vital for Crew Retention

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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3 Ways to Simplify Your HR & Maritime Recruitment Processes

3 Ways to Simplify Your HR & Maritime Recruitment Processes

In maritime recruitment you’re not only hiring people for your shore based maritime jobs but also seafarers on contracts. It’s not surprising it can feel like your HR department is chasing its own tail half the time! We take a look at how you can simplify your maritime recruitment efforts.

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How to Look After Employee & Crew Mental Wellbeing

How to Look After Employee & Crew Mental Wellbeing

From high risk, physically demanding roles such as seafarer jobs to work that involves long hours at a desk and little rest from constant phone calls and emails, employees in the maritime industry can be vulnerable to mental health issues that are work-related.

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How Crewing Software Can Increase Retention Rates

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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