Danica Crewing Specialists

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January 13, 2025

AI is helping us to streamline our recruitment

As we head into 2025, Danica’s successful crewing portal – www.danica-crewing.com – is streamlining our recruitment process and providing an effective platform for seafarers across the globe. Utilising our new built-in AI interactive system, our portal is able to communicate directly with tens of thousands of crew members – sending them job opportunities via the […]

January 10, 2025

Crewing Manager Survey 2024 – don’t miss your chance to share your experiences

Danica is inviting all Crewing Managers and other professionals involved in HR-Maritime to take part in our 2024 Crew Manager Survey. This is the second year we have undertaken this important survey which sits alongside the five years of findings from our annual Seafarers’ Survey – the results can be viewed on our website. The […]

November 11, 2024

Danica Seafarers’ Survey shows salaries are still rising in a crew-led market

• Competition to employ the best talent continues • Seafarer salaries are still rising although at a slower pace– Wages for some ranks are up to 10% on 2023 • Crew continue to control the marketplace and are constantly looking out for better positions – 99% say they scan job vacancies during their leave time […]

October 8, 2024

Danica and IMEQ collaborate for safety and wellbeing

Danica Crewing Specialists has partnered with the Innovative Maritime Emotional Intelligence Centre (IMEQ) to offer a comprehensive service which will help Danica’s  ship owners to enhance safety through monitoring the mental health and wellbeing of their seafarers and taking proactive measures to address any areas of concern. IMEQ’s team of expert psychologists has developed a […]

October 4, 2024

Why choose Danica as crew manager for your fleet?

A message from our CEO Henrik Jensen “I founded Danica Crewing Specialists more a decade ago as my experience working in senior roles within ship owning had shown me that there was a need for a high-quality crewing service provider to assist demanding shipowners to connect with seafarers of the right calibre needed to operate […]

July 4, 2024

Our Georgia office is two years old

Congratulations to the Danica Crewing Specialists office in Batumi, Georgia, which is celebrating its second birthday in July. Situated in Batumi, Georgia’s key seafarer hub on the Black Sea coast, Danica’s Georgia office has access to a significant seafaring community. Georgia is home to some 10,000 marine officers and a similar number of ratings. Georgia […]

July 3, 2024

Crewing now at strategic level

Crewing is moving to the strategic level as a shortage of talent becomes a pressing problem, according to Henrik Jensen, CEO of Danica Crewing Specialists. Addressing a ‘full house’ during the firm’s recent seminar, Beating the Talent Timebomb, at Posidonia, co-hosted with Ocean Technologies Group, Mr Jensen advised that recruitment and retention of crew has […]

July 2, 2024

New recruitment platform working well

We’re delighted to report that Danica’s new recruitment platform, launched in April, is proving very successful. Seafarers are reporting to us that they like the efficient and fast handling on our bespoke crewing website – www.danica-crewing.com – which enables them to apply for vacancies and update their CVs directly, as well as access useful company […]

June 18, 2024

Danica expands into Türkiye

Global crew supplier Danica Crewing Specialists has expanded its operations into Türkiye by taking on crew supply responsibility for a number of vessels, with more in the pipeline. Danica Crewing Specialists has more than 65,000 seafarers on its books and offices in all the world’s leading seafarer hubs, enabling it to quickly supply crew from […]