THE HUNT FOR SCHENGEN
Quite recently I had a small chat with an acquaintance of mine during my early sailing years, The chat we had in Face book was the difference between his company (Blue Manila) and my current company (Career Ship management ). According to what we had discussed the salary offered to an ordinary seaman rank is 1250 USD - 300 US Dollars more than the salary rate here in Career, plus the overtime work pay is open compared to career's fixed overtime pay. Overall the discussion lead me on the conclusion that the benefit's and pay of blue manila outmatch career's in some extent, the only difference that Career has is that the ships here are way larger than and comfortable compared to blue manila's. 6,000 GRT is no match for 42,000 GRT. Aside from that, me and Glemz Juanitas discussed on what happened on why both of us changed companies. Glemz told me he switched because Seacap has serious problem on the rotation schedules , while I on the other hand told Juanitas that I was ...