Global carriers face difficulties keeping workers. A gauge of seafarers' happiness reached new lows in 2021, as workers waited extra months at sea.
Despite record profits, global carriers face difficulties keeping workers. On Wednesday, the annualfound that maritime workers' levels of unhappiness reached all-time lows in 2021 and that many seafarers over the age of 35 were not intending to return to sea.
"We are sleepwalking to a manning crisis," Yves Vandenborn, director of loss prevention at Standard Club, said in the press release."Resentment is brewing amongst this critical workforce due to the lack of shore leave, uncertainty of trip duration, draconian Covid testing and general lack of recognition."they were facing difficulty staffing ships due to flagging retention and application rates.
Maritime has long been an attractive industry, especially for workers from poorer countries, where seafaring represents an opportunity to make up to
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