| It’s budget season again; the time when shipowners and managers carefully review operational costs and plan for the year ahead. But when it comes to crew budgets, you have to ask yourself: Are you paying too much?
Crew costs typically account for between 45% and 60% of a vessel’s total OpEx, so getting your budget right is crucial if you want to drive efficiencies into the way you manage your crew and ship.
That is where Danica can help.
With offices across the world’s key seafarer hubs, including Hamburg, Limassol, Odesa, Batumi, Mumbai, Manila, Athens and Istanbul, Danica has a unique global insight into wage levels, availability trends, and crewing overheads.
We have crew on over 250 vessels and recruitment and crewing offices in all key seafaring hubs, covering the Philippines, India, Ukraine, Turkey, the EU, and Georgia. We talk to thousands of seafarers every year, looking for job opportunities. More than 170,000 times monthly, a job-seeking seafarer checks a vacancy on our advanced digital recruitment platform.
Being in touch with so many seafarers gives us unique intelligence about seafarers’ remuneration and enables us to set the right wage levels for any vessel type and rank.
No shipping company is the same, and every vessel has its own specifics and operational requirements. We work closely with our clients to analyse these requirements and create an individually designed crewing solution that meets these requirements while safeguarding cost effectiveness.
From the many crew changes we execute each year, we are also aware of travel costs and port agency fees and know the optimal ports for crew changes around the globe.
All Danica clients benefit from full transparency. As a Danica client, you can cherry-pick from our services, from single position recruitment to full crew management. Clients can be involved in any of the crewing processes or let Danica’s professional team take care.
Please feel free to contact our CEO, Henrik Jensen, about crew budgets and crew employment. Of course, we can also prepare a crew budget as a reference for your own budget. |
