Calling all shipowners and crew managers!
BIMCO and the ICS are preparing the Seafarer Workforce Report 2026, and your insights are crucial. We’re conducting a comprehensive questionnaire to understand current crewing levels, recruitment trends, skill shortages, and training challenges across the industry.
BIMCO and ICS are preparing the Seafarer Workforce Report 2026, which aims to provide estimates of the global supply and demand for seafarers. It has traditionally been prepared every five years since 1990 and is the trusted source of information on the global situation related to seafarer training and ship’s crewing.
The Questionnaire for Companies aims to collect information for BIMCO and ICS to use in the preparation of the Seafarer Workforce Report 2026, specifically on operational crewing levels, the nationalities of seafarers, trends in the recruitment and retention of seafarers, identification of any shortages of seafarers qualified to serve in certain capacities or ship types, and other challenges that companies may be facing related to the training of seafarers and manning of their ships.
This questionnaire concerns the seafarers on board the ships operated by your company. If you do not employ or supply the seafarers that operate your ships, you may prefer to forward this questionnaire to the crew management companies responsible for the crewing of your ships.
This survey should take approximately 20 minutes to complete.
Shared in collaboration with BIMCO and International Chamber of Shipping
