September 16, 2022
The latest edition of The Maritime Executive dedicates 15 pages to Danica’s crew supply operations and features an informative interview with our Managing Director and Founder, Henrik Jensen. Read the magazine here
August 15, 2022
Danica Crewing Specialists continues to expand and we are pleased to announce the opening of our new operational centre in Limassol Cyprus. Danica continues to expand its network of recruitment offices in new countries and the new Cyprus regional centre will provide a central operations coordination centre to strengthen the company’s one-contact-point service policy, giving […]
July 1, 2022
Danica Crewing Specialists is pleased to announce it has opened a new office in Batumi, Georgia, enabling the company to access an even larger pool of competent officers and seafarers. With a population of more than 3.7million, Georgia is a small country in the south-eastern corner of Europe which is home to some 10,000 officers […]
June 24, 2022
Leadership plays a crucial role in sailing a harmonious ship and supporting seafarers in their challenging roles at sea, according to Captain Henrik Jensen, Managing Director of Danica Crewing Specialists. As the global shipping industry marks Day of the Seafarer on June 25th , with this year’s theme of “Your Voyage, Then and Now”, Capt […]
May 25, 2022
Crew shortages are driving up seafarer wages, according to Danica Crewing Specialist’s CEO Henrik Jensen who urges ship operators to be quick to offer jobs to seafarers who apply with them or risk losing out to a higher bidder. The Ukrainian conflict, sanctions against Russia, and new Covid-19 outbreaks in the Far East are all […]
May 6, 2022
Danica Crewing Specialists is holding a seminar on 8th June during Posidonia 2022 in Athens to discuss the importance of employing a diversified crewing strategy. The Covid-19 pandemic and the recent crisis in Ukraine have presented a variety of challenges for the crew supply sector. In addition, the International Chamber of Shipping predicts a seafarer […]
May 5, 2022
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused huge disruption for employers of Ukrainian crews as well as causing a great deal of distress to Ukrainian seafarers. Since this conflict began two months’ ago Danica has continued to meet our clients’ needs and we are proactively closing the crewing gaps in the following ways: Very early […]
March 1, 2022
Danica Crewing Specialists boss Henrik Jensen has shared an email from a Ukrainian seafarer’s family as an example of the heart-rending messages he is now receiving. The Hamburg-based managing director employs 1,500 Ukrainians on client shipowners’ vessels. Jensen said: “We are witnesses to a disaster.” He sent one redacted email to TradeWinds to protect the […]
February 25, 2022
Danica’s clients and seafarers will be aware of the invasion in Ukraine, which has come as a shock to the global maritime community. Danica is in close contact with our office and 50+ staff in Odesa and our pre-prepared contingency plans are now in operation. At present all our staff are safe and working from […]