As a leading crew supplier, Danica places a high importance on the welfare of our seafarers. We’re thrilled to announce a new partnership between Danica Crewing Specialists and BLU Maritime Consultancy (BMC), experts in sustainable provision management and catering solutions for crew onboard vessels. This collaboration brings together Danica’s expertise in maritime recruitment and manning […]
Retaining seafarers has improved slightly over the past year, thanks in part to salary raises, the annual Crew Managers’ Survey by Danica Crewing Specialists has revealed. In its survey of in-house crew managers in ship owning and shipmanagement companies, almost 90% reported that they had increased salaries in 2024. Only seven per cent said they […]
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 […]
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 […]
• 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]