Find, verify, onboard and manage crew — from one platform.
Crew Connect combines maritime recruitment, ISM compliance, crew training and fleet management into one purpose-built platform. No spreadsheets. No WhatsApp threads. No missed cert expiries.
Free during the Founding Member period · No credit card required · Cancel any time
Built for every maritime sector · ISM Code compliant · MLC 2006 aligned
What Crew Connect does for your company.
One platform covering recruitment, compliance, and fleet operations — not three separate tools stitched together.
Crew recruitment
Search the crew database by rank, certificate, right to work, or availability window. Digital Dock Walk finds available crew near a specific port by radius, ranked by distance — the digital version of walking the dock. Messaging with attachments, BlindRecruit anonymous mode, saved crew and private notes.
Availability-first search
Filter to crew available now, within 30 days, or within 60 days — or set a specific "available by" date. You only see people who could actually start when you need them, not everyone who's ever set foot on a ship.
Performance reviews & ranking
Employers who've sailed with a crew member can rate them — skill, reliability, conduct, sobriety, attitude, professionalism. Reviews show right in the search results modal, and a completed profile with good reviews ranks higher in your search — we actively encourage crew to keep both up to date.
Fleet & manning management
Fleet Manager across your vessels, manning plans, relief pipeline, MLC contract generation, digital timesheets and Hours-of-Rest tracking.
Compliance & ISM training
Crew Connect Academy delivers documented training, competency verification and emergency-preparedness practice mapped to ISM 6.3 / 8 / 9 / 12.
Vessel-specific training
Not generic theory — training built around your SMS, your standing orders, your vessel types. Ask yourself: how well does your crew actually know your SMS? How would they perform in a real emergency, tonight? If you're not certain, that's the gap this closes.
Vetting & DP inspection prep
SIRE 2.0, RightShip RISQ, USCG PSC and DP question banks — competency evidence for the inspections that actually happen. See below.
Workboat Code training
Category/Area of operation, certification & survey, manning/MLC, personnel transfer and MOB — built for workboat and CTV/offshore wind operators. See below.
Onboarding & document sign-off
Upload SMS extracts, standing orders and safety briefings — crew must open and acknowledge each one before joining, logged for your records.
White-label training portal
Your brand, your domain — Company Pro and Enterprise can offer Academy and Critical Incident Chains as their own crew training portal.
Maritime crewing is still running on spreadsheets and WhatsApp.
Your competitors are placing crew faster, avoiding compliance fines, and building a data advantage. Here's what's slowing you down.
CV chaos
Emailed PDFs. Scanned certificates. Outdated Word docs. No way to know what's current, what's expired, or who's actually available.
Recruiter admin overload
Chasing candidates, checking cert expiry dates manually, drafting contracts in Word, following up by email. Hours lost per placement.
ISM & MLC compliance risk
An expired STCW. A missed MLC requirement. Hours-of-rest breaches. No documented training records for ISM 6.3 audit. One PSC inspection finding can cost more than a year's subscription.
No visibility into crew quality
CVs tell you what crew claim. They don't tell you performance, knowledge gaps, or whether they've actually been trained on the scenarios that matter.
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
Built by maritime professionals, for maritime professionals. Every feature uses the language and workflows you already know.
Recruit Faster
Search verified crew by rank, certificates, DP hours, RTW status, and port proximity. See availability, sea service history, and DP logs — not just a CV.
- Filter by STCW cert, CoC, ENG1, flag state
- Geo-search by port (Digital Dock Walk)
- BlindRecruit mode for fair, MLC-aligned shortlisting
Manage Your Fleet
Add vessels, build manning plans, track itineraries, and run your relief pipeline — all in one workspace per vessel.
- Manning planner by rank
- Multi-leg itineraries with sign-on / sign-off dates
- Relief pipeline — find and assign a reliever in one click
Generate MLC Contracts
Auto-fill MLC 2006 compliant seafarer employment agreements from position, vessel and company data. No other recruitment platform does this.
- All contract fields pre-populated
- Print / sign / scan-back workflow
- Audit trail per contract
Onboarding & Document Sign-Off
Upload joining documents — SMS extracts, standing orders, safety briefings. Crew must open and acknowledge each document before joining.
- Timestamped, IP-logged acknowledgement
- Defensible audit trail per crew member
- Recruiter notified on completion
Timesheets & Hours of Rest
Crew log daily hours directly in the platform. Daily rate auto-calculated from MLC contract. Hours-of-rest breach detection built in.
- Regular / OT / standby / leave / sick categories
- Monthly summary per crew member
- Breach flagged automatically
Recruiter Pipeline & ATS
Post positions, receive applications, and manage your pipeline in a Kanban view. Automated email notifications and candidate nudge reminders built in.
- Status: pending / reviewing / shortlisted / offered / approved / rejected
- Inline status changes with message nudge
- Application reminders (1 day / 1 week / 2 weeks)
Crew competence, built into the platform.
Crew Connect is the only maritime recruitment platform with a built-in competency and training layer — included in Company Starter and Pro. Know your crew aren't just certified. Know they're prepared.
Knowledge Checker
2,000+ questions mapped to MCA oral exam syllabus (OOW, Chief Mate, Master Unlimited), STCW, COSWP, and real MAIB/CHIRP incident reports. Three modes: Mock Exam, Incident Case Review, Revision.
Critical Incident Chains
Sequential emergency decision cascades — 10 decision points per scenario. Real incidents: enclosed space entry failure, blackout → grounding, engine room fire, piracy → citadel. Wrong answers are what officers actually do under pressure.
PDI Score
The Professional Development Index — a weighted composite of competency, sea time, reviews, and assessment results. One number that tells you if a seafarer is genuinely ready for the role.
Training Analytics
Company-wide dashboards showing Knowledge Checker usage, Critical Incident Chains completion, and PDI score trends across your crew pool. Identify gaps before they become incidents.
Supports your ISM Code obligations — and carries your brand.
The ISM Code requires companies to maintain procedures for training, competency verification, and emergency preparedness. Crew Connect Academy delivers all three — and can be white-labelled as your own crew training portal.
How Academy supports ISM compliance
Training & familiarisation
Knowledge Checker and Orals Prep provide structured, documented competency training against MCA syllabus and STCW requirements. Every session is logged to the seafarer's PDI record.
Emergency preparedness
Critical Incident Chains are sequential emergency decision scenarios built from real incidents — engine room fire, blackout, enclosed space entry failure, piracy. Officers practise the decisions that matter before the emergency happens.
Reports of non-conformities, accidents and hazardous occurrences
What If scenarios are built directly from published MAIB and CHIRP reports — closing the loop between fleet incidents, lessons learned, and officer decision-making practice.
Documentation
PDI scores, assessment results, and completion records are stored per crew member — exportable for internal audit, PSC inspection, or flag state review.
White-Label Fleet Training Portal
Available on Company Pro and Enterprise plans
Your brand, your colours, your logo — crew see your company's training portal, not Crew Connect branding
Custom domain — training.yourcompany.com, fully SSL-secured
Critical Incident Chains mapped to your SMS — emergency cascades can reference your vessel types, procedures, and muster stations
Company-wide competency dashboard — see PDI scores, training completion, and knowledge gaps across your entire crew pool
Audit-ready reports — ISM 6.3 / 8 / 12 compliance evidence, exportable per vessel or per crew member
Revenue share option — training providers and colleges can offer Academy to their students under their own brand
Vetting and DP inspection readiness — built in.
SIRE 2.0, RightShip RISQ, USCG PSC and DP sign-off all test the same thing: whether your officers can actually demonstrate the competency, not just hold the certificate. Crew Connect gives your crew somewhere to prove it before the inspector does.
OCIMF SIRE 2.0 question library
Navigation, crew management, maritime security, cargo & ballast, mooring & anchoring, machinery spaces, ice operations — drawn directly from the SIRE 2.0 Question Library.
RightShip RISQ coverage
Navigation, solid bulk and grain cargo, ISM, pollution prevention, hatch & lifting, mooring — the categories a RightShip inspector actually scores.
Port State Control prep
USCG-focused deficiency and inspection scenarios, alongside the same fundamentals PSC officers check everywhere else.
Dynamic Positioning question bank
Fundamentals, human factors, alarm management, FMEA trials, drive-off/blackout cascade scenarios — for DPOs and the Masters/Chief Officers who sign off on them.
What this gives you
Competency evidence beyond the certificate — see which shortlisted or serving crew have actually completed vetting-category and DP practice, before you commit to an interview or a sign-off.
355 questions, live now — 124 vetting (SIRE/RISQ/USCG) + 231 DP, inside Knowledge Checks and the Decision Simulator.
Same audit-ready records as ISM training — vetting and DP practice log to the same PDI record and export the same way.
Workboat Code training, built for workboat and CTV operators.
Category and Area of operation, certification and survey, manning and MLC hours, stability, and personnel transfer safety — the themes a Workboat Master oral actually tests, turned into interactive training your crew can work through on their own time.
Workboats operating in the UK — a small, specialist fleet where qualified crew are genuinely scarce (UK Chamber of Shipping)
UK CTVs across just the two largest operators (Windcat ~60, OEG 15) — and still expanding
Global workboat market, 2025 to 2035 projected — roughly 5% CAGR (Verified Market Research)
Full sourced figures: UK Workboat & CTV Sector Statistics
Category & Area of operation
What the certificate actually limits, and why operating outside it isn't a judgement call — foundational content every workboat crew member should know cold.
Survey & renewal requirements
Initial and periodic survey, what an expired certificate exposes the Master and operator to, and the practical discipline of tracking it.
Manning levels & hours of rest
Why small-crew vessels have no redundancy, and how MLC 2006 hours-of-rest risk actually accumulates on a busy CTV campaign.
Personnel transfer & MOB response
Approach, abort authority, and small-vessel MOB recovery — the practical scenarios examiners and inspectors both probe.
What this gives you
Ready-made CTV/offshore wind onboarding — point new starters at the Workboat Code guide set and orals-prep pack instead of building your own induction material from scratch.
11 Workboat Code questions and 11 mini-guides live now, inside Knowledge Checks and the public Workboat Code guide hub — both growing.
Same competency record as every other module — Workboat Code practice logs to the same PDI record and exports the same way as ISM, vetting and DP training.
Company add-ons
Three offerings built specifically for company and fleet accounts, beyond the core platform above. We'd rather tell you exactly where each one stands than oversell it — enquire and we'll walk you through what's ready now and what's coming.
Pre-Employment Screening Questions
Add up to 10 custom questions — yes/no, multiple choice, short answer — to any job posting, which applicants must answer before they can apply. Suggested question sets by rank speed up setup. Set an expected answer on yes/no questions and see it flagged automatically on the application, before you open the CV.
Built and DB-verified 2026-07-18 (14/14 automated checks against a real database, including the full post→apply→answer→flag flow), shipping in the 2026-07-18 evening release.
Enquire Now →Company SMS Knowledge Checks
Upload your own Safety Management System procedures and Crew Connect drafts tailored Knowledge Check questions from them — reviewed before publishing, then scoped to your own crew only, sitting alongside the existing MAIB/CHIRP question library in Mock Exam and Revision.
Working since Session 145, shipping in the 2026-07-18 evening release alongside everything else on this list.
Enquire Now →Custom Scenario Checks
A bespoke branching Decision Simulator scenario built around your own vessel type, procedures, or a real incident from your fleet — the same "what would you do" format as the existing MAIB-based scenario library, scoped to your crew only.
Company-scoping infrastructure built and DB-verified 2026-07-18, shipping in the 2026-07-18 evening release. No scenario has been authored through it yet — that starts with your first request.
Enquire Now →What no other maritime platform offers.
All maritime sectors — one platform
Merchant navy, offshore, superyacht, workboat, fishing. Every competitor is sector-siloed. You aren't.
MLC contract generation
No other recruitment tool generates MLC 2006 compliant contracts in-platform. Yours does.
BlindRecruit — DEI built in
Hide photos and names during shortlisting. MLC-aligned fair recruitment, not a bolt-on.
DP Logs & Ship Handling Logs
Verified digital records of DP sea time and vessel handling experience. Crew can't fake the log hours.
Geo-search by port
Fill urgent vacancies with crew already in port. No other platform surfaces availability by port proximity.
Hours-of-rest breach detection
Auto-flags MLC / ILO breach in crew timesheets. Protects crew. Protects the operator. Protects you.
The numbers behind the platform.
Maritime crewing admin is expensive. Crew Connect removes the overhead — and the risk.
Competency questions across the MCA oral exam syllabus and real MAIB/CHIRP incidents
Grade banks complete — OOW, Chief Mate, Master Unlimited (250Q each)
Critical Incident Chains — real incidents, real decision pressure
IMO flag states supported in fleet management
Simple, transparent pricing.
Seafarers are always free. Companies pay for the tools that save time, reduce risk, and build a crew advantage.
🌟 Founding Member Period — Recruiter and Company tiers are free while we build this together. Founding rate locked in for life once pricing starts.
Recruiter
Independent recruiters & small manning agents
Founding Member period — locked in for life once pricing starts
- ✓ Full ATS & job posting
- ✓ Crew search (rank, certs, RTW, geo)
- ✓ Messaging with file attachments
- ✓ BlindRecruit mode
- ✓ Saved crew, flags & private notes
- ✓ Digital Dock Walk geo-search
- ✓ 1 vessel included
Company Starter
Mid-size operators & crewing companies (up to 10 vessels)
Founding Member period — locked in for life once pricing starts
- ✓ Everything in Recruiter
- ✓ Fleet Manager (up to 10 vessels)
- ✓ Manning plans & relief pipeline
- ✓ MLC contract generation
- ✓ Onboarding document sign-off
- ✓ Digital timesheets & Hours-of-Rest
- ✓ Knowledge Checker & Critical Incident Chains analytics
- ✓ PDI dashboards per crew member
Company Pro
Large fleet managers & crewing agencies (20+ vessels)
Founding Member period — locked in for life once pricing starts
- ✓ Everything in Starter
- ✓ Unlimited vessels
- ✓ Advanced compliance reporting
- ✓ Company-wide training analytics
- ✓ Custom PDI weighting
- ✓ API access (read)
- ✓ SSO & audit logs
- ✓ Dedicated account manager
Enterprise
Large crewing companies & fleet managers (50+ vessels)
Volume pricing · bespoke contract
- ✓ Everything in Pro
- ✓ White-label portal option
- ✓ API write access
- ✓ Custom workflows & onboarding
- ✓ Data migration assistance
- ✓ Quarterly competency reports
💡 Save 2 months on any plan with annual billing. Annual pricing available at checkout.
Built right. Built for maritime.
Built by seafarers
Designed by people who understand CoC, DP Unlimited, STCW, MLC — not adapted from a generic HR tool.
MCA syllabus-mapped
Knowledge Checker questions are mapped to the MCA oral exam syllabus and real published incident reports.
ISM Code & MLC 2006 aligned
Training records (ISM 6.3), emergency preparedness (ISM 8), incident learning (ISM 9), and documentation (ISM 12) — plus MLC contract generation and hours-of-rest detection.
UK GDPR aligned
Data stored and processed in line with UK GDPR. Crew control who can view their documents. See our Privacy Policy and Data Processing Agreement.
MAIB & CHIRP sourced
Incident scenarios and What If questions are built from real published MAIB accident reports and CHIRP maritime feedback.
All maritime sectors
Merchant navy, offshore, superyacht, workboat, wind farm CTV, fishing — under one login. No competitor covers them all.
Ready to modernise how you manage crew?
Join as a founding recruiter, manning agent, or fleet operator — free while we build this together, locked in for life once pricing starts.