A unique portal that made manning easy for the indian shipping industry

The manning sector of the Indian shipping industry has undergone radical changes, thanks to a dynamic portal 'jobships.com. This very innovative portal was incepted two years back by a seasoned mariner himself. Mr. Solanki, who has a long and in-depth sea experience spanning over two decades, understood the tribulations that go with manning a vessel and believed that things would be a lot more easier for this segment if the power of the world wide web is suitably harnessed. Thus fulfilling the long felt need for a common platform, that would act as a meeting place for companies, institutes and seafarers, jobships.com was created.

The manning sector of the Indian shipping industry has undergone radical changes, thanks to a dynamic portal 'jobships.com. This very innovative portal was incepted two years back by a seasoned mariner himself. Mr. Solanki, who has a long and in-depth sea experience spanning over two decades, understood the tribulations that go with manning a vessel and believed that things would be a lot more easier for this segment if the power of the world wide web is suitably harnessed. Thus fulfilling the long felt need for a common platform, that would act as a meeting place for companies, institutes and seafarers, jobships.com was created.

Before the advent of jobships.com, seafarers had a tough time applying to shipping companies. As the seafarer is a very mobile person, it used to be very hard for him to keep a track of recruitment ads that appeared in the local publications. Also, as he would be sailing for months together, many a times he misses out on advertisements and is not able to apply on time. Though internet had revolutionized other industries, as far as the seafarer was concerned, he still had top depend on either publications or agents.

The same was true for the shipping companies. Manning in the Indian shipping industry was still done in outdated ways.

In spite of the sky breaking global technological advances, a great many Indian Shipping companies manned their vessels, through random press advertisements, agents and so on, which was not only time consuming but also too expensive.
The jobships.com team believed in the infinite power of the Internet and endeavored to make manning easier, faster and cheaper not only for the companies but also for the seafarer.

Slowly but surely the maritime community realized the tremendous improvement that this dynamic portal, brought into their manning operations. Today, over 80 companies have become permanent registered members of jobships.com. Over 5000 seafarers from all parts of the globe have registered themselves with jobships.com and use the site regularly for applying to companies.

Thousands of marine enthusiasts visit jobships.com each day in search of jobs, news updates, products, services and all other information related to maritime community. On the average, jobships.com gets over 40,000 hits every day, making it the most popular portal for the maritime sector.

Jobships.com provides a whole package of benefits for the seafarer. For example, with jobships.com, he has the option of withholding his resume from those companies that he wants to avoid.

Maritime Institutes have also hugely benefited from this dynamic portal as they can display the details about their courses and schedules.