High quality global crewing provision combines with in-depth local experience in ÈTA Danica Crewing Services, a new venture which has started operations in the city of Leeuwarden in the Netherlands. ÈTA Danica provides ship operators with a single point of access to more than 70,000 officers living in the areas covered by Danica’s eastern European […]
More than a year since the Covid-19 pandemic was declared and crew changes remain complicated but achievable. As case numbers rise and fall around the world the various travel restrictions and ‘red list’ countries change too. Flights are still being cancelled at short notice and seafarers have many medical tests to undergo before they can […]
We all know the importance of having competent, loyal and hardworking crew onboard including officers with the right set of leadership skills– and we all know the serious consequences of not having it! Despite this, very often the screening of seafarers new to a company is limited to checking statutory certificates and medical fitness and […]
Danica Crewing Services features in the comprehensive ship management focus published in the maritime newspaper Tradewinds. Our Managing Director, Henrik Jensen, gave his expert opinion on a variety of issues including the latest crew change situation and digital training. Read the articles here: TW_Shipmanagement feature march 2021
Danica’s latest Seafarer Survey revealed that 92% of respondents admitted to checking the employment market during their home period. At Danica we are fortunate to attract many applications from seafarers. Over the past 12 months we have received in excess of 7,000 submissions, bringing our database of Eastern European seafarers to more than 44K records. […]
Danica is proud to have supplied its first seafarer to Mercy Ships, an international development organisation which deploys hospital ships to some of the poorest countries in the world, delivering vital, free healthcare to people in desperate need. And in an interesting twist, the vessel is one on which Danica Managing Director Henrik Jensen served […]
Russia, a major hub for seafarers, has now recognised seafarers as keyworkers and begun giving them Covid-19 vaccinations as a priority group – a move welcomed by Danica Crewing Services, a leading supplier Russian seafarers. Danica Managing Director Henrik Jensen reports that Danica crew members are among the first to receive the vaccination in Saint […]
Danica Crewing Services is proud to be a signatory of The Neptune Declaration – an industry-wide initiative which calls for global action to remove crew change barriers and to support the health and well-being of seafarers around the world. Here is the declaration in full: Overcoming the Seafarer Crisis: Enabling Crew Changes and Repatriation The […]
Crew changes are once more becoming difficult as much of the world locks down again following the emergence of several new and more transmissible variants of Covid-19, warns crew specialist Danica. With travel corridors being closed and new travel restrictions imposed, airlines are once again cancelling or reducing flights which poses a problem for crew […]