The Maritime Industry consist a vast network of organizations and people serving on different departments, professions, and expertise. The majority of the persons in the key positions of the maritime society consist of persons who once work onboard the ship. They were masters of their own craft. The knowledge that they acquire for the past years will serve as the foundation of future mariners. But the big question is, will they share that knowledge to others.

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Finding a Good Job is a little bit hard isn’t it? It takes a lot of your time and mental ability to decide, answer questions, and figure out whether or not you’re going to change company for a better salary and promotion. If you write in google.com about finding a job. It will land you to a lot of sites that would entice you to apply or would give you advice on how to find a good job. What could be the result of not having a good job?

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A cadet on a maritime school aspires to become a good seafarer someday. With his learned knowledge he strives to embark onboard a ship in a good company. Working onboard the ship for more than 6 months even up to 1 year gives him a chance to upgrade his profession and for possible promotion as an officer. After a few years of working onboard the ship he suddenly decides to stop and start to work on land. Nobody knows the reason why.

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Minerva Marine Agency Inc., a duly registered and licensed manning agency of the “Philippine Overseas Employment Administration” (POEA) is considered as one of the fastest growing company in the Philippines.

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The list of Philippine Maritime Shipping and Manning Companies provided in this article will help you in finding maritime jobs and shipping jobs on different maritime institute or maritime companies. Their information including their links would help a lot in finding your desired career jobs. This list connects to the previous related articles posted in the maritime category. You can subscribe for updates by using your email for free to get instant update about this post.

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A lot of country considers Mindanao as a home for terrorist groups like the “Abu Sayyaf”. But not all people living in Mindanao are considered as Muslim terrorist. Being a victim of the circumstances, many of them needs help and assistance. The “USNS Mercy“, a US Navy ship on a humanitarian medical mission helps a lot of countries that they visit. They included the Philippines as one of the countries that they could help with there medical mission.

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A sophisticated equipment known as the Voyage Data Recorder (VDR) can determine the past actions or movements of the ship in the event of an accident. It serves as the ship’s “Black Box” if you would compare it to an airplane. How would a Voyage Data Recorder help us in terms of safety? Many accidents that involve two or more ships often resulted to human error. With the invention and implementation of the voyage data recorder, solving ship related accident cases will consume less time and better result.

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Inert Gas System is a gas or mixture of gases, such as flue gas, that contain insufficient oxygen to support the combustion of hydrocarbons. Inert gas prevents formation of flammable atmosphere in cargo tanks during cargo operation in tankers.

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Did you know that plenty of unsecured sites may cause problem to your computer while browsing the internet? Lets say that your checking out one of your favorite blogs, but the theme looks disorientated. A typical browser called the Internet Explorer may cause it.

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Stumbling into this very nice website “Bulacan“, which to my surprise was a government website. A neatly created, easy to load, and will interest the reader at a first glance.

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Its a very popular prank phrase that you would always hear whenever your on the high sea’s, and this heckler “Filipino Monkey” was one their reason during the incident in the Strait of Hormuz.

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We will talk about Blog Directories and Social Bookmarking today. Since the Blogosphere is so vast, and the information dissemination through blogs are everywhere on the net, the truth is that it’s a little bit hard to find an audience especially if your blog is new. In this case Blog Directories and Social Bookmarkings comes in the scene. Most bloggers know that they need to attract more readers and visitors to their blog, and through this blog directories and social bookmarkings they would most likely hit the spot. Let me show you a picture of some of the most popular social bookmarks.

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Why choose RSS Feeds? If you ask me, its simple to answer. Everybody is doing it. Its not that complicated to understand rss feeds. According to Wikipedia; RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts in a standardized format. It contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with web sites in an automated manner that can be piped into special programs or filtered displays. Are you getting confuse now?

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The Search and Rescue Transponder or SART is a device that assists the location of a ship or a survival craft in distress if in case they have abandoned ship. The SART will respond only to a 9GHZ ( X-Band, 3cm ) Radar. It should be checked every month. Activate the SART and check in the 3cm Radar if you will see a dotted line which it would usually displayed when interrogated by the RADAR. But be sure that there are no ships or any other vessel around within the vicinity of more than 12 NM, because they may mistakenly think that you are in distress.

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While I was surfing the net i found this website about the New Seven Wonders of the World. They are currently voting and nominating as well. Guess what I’ve found out? The Philippines has three nominations. Among those nominated are:

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I will enumerate for you the “Statutory Publications” commonly found on board the ship. The “Ship’s Library” must contain the following books and it must be known to all crew. But the problem is that, some Deck Officers or Crew doesn’t even know that it exists. The following list is for your future reference. I’ll try to find their links, and post it later as an update to this article.

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Today at Pinoy Maritime I will be talking about “Business Franchising”. Most seaman would be thinking of an extra source of income while on vacation, and this is one of those options.

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Ship Reporting system is very important for safe navigation. Whether it is a local or international requirement, it should be followed diligently. The purposes of “Ship Reporting System” are:

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A very simple word with a very profound meaning. It simply says that a simple smile can mean a lot to each and every person on board the ship. Let’s make an example out of it.

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“Leadership is the ability to influence the crew through human relations and communications to make them do what you want them to do and still like it” – Capt. G. This is the most striking word that our guest speaker in our recent “in house training” said. It is also the most forgotten word onboard the ship. Pinoy Maritime will once again remind our Captains and Officers about Leadership. It may sound the same but it sure is implemented differently.

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