Global presence with local expertise, a large team of crewing specialists, one contact point and an edge-cutting recruitment platform — quality crewing in the most cost-efficient way.
Danica’s network across 10 international recruitment and crewing locations in the key seafaring hubs offers crew nationalities that meet each client’s preferences. Each office provides local expertise, and through our global presence, we design crew configurations to meet each client’s preferences.
Danica’s international network of offices does not only offer a diversity of crew nationalities meeting each client’s preference. Our network also offers strategic risk mitigation of the crew shortage, as our wide network will always be able to find a competent seafarer for any vacancy.
All our offices are staffed with experts with deep local knowledge, enabling us to guide our clients in connecting with the seafarers who fit them best.
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Our international office network also provides an efficient strategy to mitigate the risk of crew workforce shortages by diversifying sourcing countries. Our offices are fully integrated, and all operate to the same high standards. Any seafarer new to Danica passes the same strict screening regardless of nationality, ensuring every seafarer you bring onboard is of a high calibre.
Danica has an international team of more than 60 crewing specialists across 10 locations, ready to assist you. They cover all aspects of crewing, from recruitment, crew changes, payroll, insurance and claim handling to training and retention, delivering efficiency, cost efficiency and crew stability and continuity.
Danica’s clients can access key seafaring hubs through a single point of contact. Each client has an experienced crewing manager assigned to deliver our services and coordinate behind the scenes with our office network.
Our operations excellence centre in Limassol, Cyprus, coordinates and manages all our operations.
Danica’s search, sourcing, and screening are unique. Our recruitment platform exposes your vacancies to a large pool of seafarers. Using algorithms and AI, it quickly compiles a shortlist of prospective candidates for each vacancy, which our experienced team of recruiters then rigorously screens through interviews, background checks, verification, and tests, ensuring only fully competent seafarers set foot on the deck of your ships.
Crew costs make up a large portion of a vessel’s operating expenses. It is important to spend the budget wisely.
Quality crewing does not have to be expensive. On the contrary, quality crew onboard save costs.
Danica’s services provide you with the best crew in the most cost-efficient way, combining our expertise, large network and economies of scale.
We provide a comprehensive range of supporting and value-adding services to develop and retain competent seafarers while keeping costs competitive.
These services include performance management, training, mental health and crew well-being initiatives, provision management, crew P&I insurance, claims handling, private medical insurance, and onboard entertainment packages.
Danica is an industry leader in innovation. We continue to evolve, always looking ahead and implementing new ideas, methods, and technology that enhance our services for our clients.
We not only use state-of-the-art technologies. We also participate in crew workforce discussions within the shipping industry. Part of this is our annual seafarer employment conditions survey report, which has become an important intelligence source for the industry.
We also step outside the industry bubble and join cross-industry discussions and seminars where we learn how other industries manage workforce shortages, retention, costs, training, and efficiency.
To learn more about how we work, please contact Captain Henrik Jensen.
Our own offices give us access to a very large pool of officers and ratings, with tens of thousands of registered seafarers and more than 569,000 officer profiles reachable through our network in Eastern Europe and Asia.
Every new seafarer passes a 12-step screening process including reference checks, verification of sea service, professional knowledge tests, an English language test, IQ and behavioural tests, and interviews with our recruitment captains and chief engineers.
We treat seafarers as long-term colleagues: fair and transparent contracts, career planning, training, family support and constant communication with the crewing office. This keeps our retention rates well above industry average.
No. Owners see all planning, transactions, costs and budget compliance in real time online, down to the smallest detail. For example, all crew flights are tendered with three different travel agencies, which keeps costs demonstrably low.
Through structured competence management, targeted training, cadet programmes and promotion planning we build an internal pipeline, so senior officers grow within the fleet rather than being hired ad hoc.
