Millions of maritime professionals contribute to the functioning of maritime transport every day. As the sector develops and employment patterns and practices evolve, the need for trade unions and employers in the maritime industry to have consistent employment data becomes more apparent.

Developing a system to collect data on the industry’s workforce would allow the Social Partners of the maritime transport sector to have an overview on issues and challenges such as demographic changes, employment prospects, education, and training. The findings of the project will help Social Partners to better respond to and foresee the needs of the workforce.

With the expertise of Cardiff University, acting through its “Seafarers International Research Centre” (SIRC), MapMar will examine how to improve the way data is collected and will provide a report with concrete recommendations on how to build a data collection system.

ECSA and ETF will take this know-how to EU policymakers to promote a true full-scale European-level data collection system.

On Thursday 30 September the final conference took place resulting in the first phase of the dissemination of the project’s findings. The final report and executive summary can be found in both ECSA and ETF  webpages.