Crew management

Major locations where crew management activities are carried out from include Limassol (Cyprus), Singapore, Hong Kong and Malta.

Most commonly, these services include crew recruitment, deployment to vessel, scheduling, and regular training and development.

Other major seafarer labour supply countries include Greece, United Kingdom, Ghana; and now companies are looking at Kenya, South Africa and others for the hospitality industry for the cruise ships.

[1] The main issue impacting the global crew management sector and the wider shipping industry is an expected shortage of qualified seafarers over the coming years, especially for specialised vessels such as chemical, LNG and LPG carriers, engineering officers, and officers at management level.

The latter two mainly due to not having enough new vacancies open up to allow new cadets to receive the required training at sea, coupled with current market volatility.