The Drewry Manning Report 2025/26 is essential reading for ship operators. The headline figures show there is an 8% shortage in the numbers of crew needed to fill vacancies across the board.
On top of that, we are now just entering the school holiday period, where seafarers are reluctant to join and immediately go to sea as they prefer to spend time with their families.
The coming years won’t be easier, so it’s now essential for ship operators to have a better long-term strategy.
For instance, operators even with a limited number of vessels cannot restrict themselves to just one or two nationalities only – companies must look further afield for where they look to recruit from.
In the past few years, Danica has evolved from an Eastern European crew service provider to an international maritime recruitment and crew management service provider to ensure the delivery of enough competent crew to clients.
We have expanded our owned office network and now cover the world’s key seafaring hubs: Ukraine, Georgia, India and the Philippines.
Our vast office network enables us to cover any vacancy, even on short notice. All our offices operate to the highest industry standards including our core values: strict screening of all seafarers new to us, ensuring only qualified and competent seafarers are joining our clients’ vessels.
