From Lloydslist.com, September 25th 2006
Recruitment shine dulled by tarnished image

SHIPPING’S poor image means it will not attract its share of the best and brightest young people to ensure quality in the future, senior industry officials told a World Maritime Day parallel event in Singapore.

The topic of the day lately or it seems, is the issue of crew shortage. All over the industry and the media, even the mainstreams papers, I hear of this crew shortage this and crew shortage that. I had committed to "paper" my opinions of this shortage in my article of last year "Cries...

Having an Avatar is a bit of trend in the online world. It is a graphic that represents you online. It could be your picture, or it could be something like a toilet bowl or superman icon, whatever you want. Mine, as you can see, is the ship on the left. <----- On this bulletin board, I have uploaded...

I have also added some other special ranking. Theses ranking are assigned by the administrator, me, to individual register users, regardless of posting frequency. "Financial Supporter" for those that may have given monetary support to Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net. ...

Yes those guys will become "Fleet Engineer" in no time. My gawd, these spammer have no shame. I will be installing some software soon to try to limit their impact. Apparently I am already blocking 95% of the usual stuff. I would hate to see what happens if I turned off those features. eheh...

I have set up the ranking system on the board. The different ranks are assigned to levels of post. So if you are just posting one or two, then you are a bilge dweller. Post 500 or more and you will be know around here as Fleet Engineer, woo hoo! If you want a different rank, just let me know, I will...

No need for that around here, we are very serious here !

Well ok, I am not entirely sure how they work just yet, I think it is a personal preference, and also a board setting. I did turn them off for the board. I dunno, I am not a big fan of the smilies myself.

Martin

Welcome to the new Galley Wireless. I'm happy you find it to your liking. It does look similar because it is pretty much similar. The board is built around the open source software "phpbb" as is the one for x universe, which is probably the most popular bulleting board software out there. ...

Welcome aboard a new area of Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net. In the latest update to the site, you will find a Video area and our very own bulletin board, forum area, hosted on our own servers. Thank to the funding provided by our sponsors, Faststream Recruitment in the US, th...

Hello JK,

Yes I have been busy, but with another little one the way its been a little work here and little work there, so the final product has been unpredictable in its time line but hopefully be better than the original boards.

I think it will be better with this new style.

Martin

The Internet offers us a wonderful way to communicate. But for your own good, don’t give out too much personal information and use common sense ! There is really no need to provide details other than qualification and an email address. Once you have established that you are dealing with a legitimate...