Women account for just 1% of the world’s seafarers. That figure has hardly moved in years, despite multiple promises from within the industry to diversify the workforce. A new global survey of senior shipping leaders sharpens the focus on the number and reveals just how much the sector has yet to do.
The discovery is just another piece of a bigger, long-term problem: having enough trained crew on ships in the first place. For years, the industry has been under pressure from an ageing, shrinking pool of experienced seafarers, and no sign’s going to sort itself out.
But shipping executives say they are more confident of solving this particular problem than almost any other challenge facing the industry today, including regulatory compliance, access to government funding and volatile freight markets.
That relative confidence indicates the workforce gap is seen as something that can be solved by sustained investment in training, pay and onboard conditions, not as a crisis with no clear way forward.
There are early signs of payoff on that investment. An index
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