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Clyde Marine Recruitment has been attracting a growing number of international job seekers. 

We now have key offices across the Europe that helps us administer application forms from our website.  Candidate information is imported into our shared database and used by our UK recruitment consultants.

Clyde Marine Recruitment - UK

Our two UK offices recruit seafarers for temporary and permanent vacancies, and crew manage seafarers on behalf of P&O, BP and Louis Dreyfus Lines. These offices, located at each end of the UK, serve different client requirements for personnel. Glasgow predominantly manages the recruitment for UK ferry operators and the North Sea offshore sector. Southampton mainly recruits for Dredging companies and manages Onboard Services personnel for some passenger vessels. However, both offices work together on filling vacancies. We share the same database so you only register once, but can be considered for jobs through either office.

CML Topstaff – Latvia

CML Topstaff is part of The Clyde Group and is operated from our office in Riga, Latvia. This office administers applications from our website for Baltic States countries (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia) and Russia. Details are entered into our shared candidate database. CML Topstaff has recently been awarded a marine operators licence, giving us more flexibility to recruit seafarers from this location for a wider scope of clients. To discuss your application, you can call our office in Riga Tel: +371 67331357 or email cmlrecep@cmltopstaff.com

Promarinha – Portugal

We recruit Onboard Services personnel from this region for seasonal jobs with UK ferry operators. Candidates can apply online www.clydemarinerecruitment.com or email our local office for further details pedro.promarinha@mail.ptprime.pt

Balmarit Shipping – Poland

For many years we have used this office recruit Polish seafarers for deck and engine ranks. All seafarer applications from Poland initially go to this office for administering. Our UK office can then access your details from our shared database, enabling us to consider you for vacancies in the UK. You can contact this office direct by emailing Balmarit@dracom.com.pl or Tel: +4858 661 6969

It might surprise you to learn that there are actually quite a number of shore based jobs available just now for people with maritime experience. The jobs are still based in the maritime sector and most are permanent positions based in both the UK and abroad. People chose to work ashore for a variety of reasons, sometimes family commitments and sometimes simply because they want a new challenge. Whatever the reasons many of the skills used on board are transferable and are currently in demand ashore. Positions such as Technical Superintendants, Marine Superintendants, Ship Managers, Operations Managers and Nautical Lecturers are all jobs that require candidates to have nautical sea-going experience.
We’ve a number of these positions available just now and if you are interested in transferring your skills now is a good time to get in touch.
For more information telephone: +44 2380 225454 or email careers@clydemarineconsultants.com.
We also have vacancies regularly updated on our website at www.clydemarineconsultants.com.

We recently visited Bulgaria to conduct interviews and judge the standard of applicant available; it was generally excellent. Bulgaria has a strong maritime history and Bulgarians crew all over the world. Working right across the marine sector Bulgarians are found in roro, cruise ships and conventional cargo vessels. All hold basic safety certificates such as PST, PSSR, Fire Fighting and First Aid and many hold crowd management certificates too. Their English is generally excellent and as they have experience at sea they will be a great resource for our clients to tap into when required.