Shipping Jobs for Junior Officers

Hello there ! For the past few years, I have been noticing how difficult it has been to get a job as trainee marine engineer or deck cadet on ship after completing marine engineering or nautical science course even from a well recognised maritime institute. The main reason behind this would be the approval of so many substandard institutions by the government in recent years, because of which the number of students graduating every year is far more than the number of job openings that we have. Along with this, a lot of job agents, mostly fraud ones have come up offering jobs in known and unknown companies taking a huge amount of money. You would wonder that the average agent fee they are charging has been above 3.5 to 4 lakh INR for a normal company and 5 to 6 lakh INR for a well known highly paying company which is one third of actual engineering course fee itself. The funniest part in fact is that the agents get only 10 to 15 % of the fee and the rest goes to the peopl...

Hello there ! Are you a fresh watch keeping engineer or deck officer ? Don't you have a company to join back after clearing class 4 or second mate ? I have made a list of over 100 shipping companies (both for main fleet and offshore) along with their email ids that you can send your resume on. You may get a job if you are lucky !!  Please find the link with the list below : ( Skip the advertisement to view the list ) Email ids of 100 Shipping Companies (Main Fleet) to Apply for a Job Email ids of 50 Shipping Companies (Offshore) to Apply for a Job Wow! 100 companies? Still not getting a call from a single company? You gotta give a try in offshore too.  Is it easy to get a job in offshore, is there any way ? Well, I would say "easier than finding a job on main fleet". There are so many vessels in Indian waters under ONGC and British Gas charter. But the fact is that only about 30% of India’s offshore vessel needs are supplied by Indian shipowne...

Hello there ! Many guys have been asking me how to get into offshore as they are struggling to find a job opening on main fleet vessels. If you are one of those guys, you will get a clear-cut idea after reading this post. Below, I have attached the contacts of 50 offshore companies where you can apply for a job online ( You might have to skip some advertisements while you download the list of companies ). Before sending your application, please read the full article to get some tips. Email ids of 50 Shipping Companies (Offshore) The address of these companies has been attached below, in case if you would take an effort to visit their company offices in Mumbai to drop your resume.  Address of Offshore Companies in India Certifications and documents required for offshore There are not many extra certificates or documents needed. But following are some mandatory and optional certificates you should be having before you join the vessel. BOS...

Hello friends ! Are you a Fourth Engineer/ Third Officer who has just cleared your MEO class IV/ Second Mate ? or are you somebody who has been  looking for a vacancy for long time after passing your examination?   If yes, here are some tricks that may help you to get a job . Everybody who works in shipping knows that it has been hard to get a job after class 4 or second mate exam in India. Joining as 4th engineer/ 3rd officer directly after passing the examination is almost impossible. I can hardly find any company that recruits them as watch keeping officer in the first contract. They send them as assistant 4th engineer or junior engineer instead ( junior/ assistant third officer in case of deck department). Companies have capitalized the situation very well, I should say. Do you ever get a reply to your e-mail that you send ?  The answer would be 'No'. Even if you get one, that would be an auto-reply which says ' Well receive...