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Greek Coastal Shipping: Faced with serious shortages of seafarers
Coastal shipping is in danger of running out of seafarers as there is a shortage of mainly lower level crews, according to the coastal shippers.
Small reduction of the Greek-owned fleet
The Greek-owned fleet over 1,000 gt decreased by 27 ships in March 2023 compared to the same month of 2019. According to the data published by the London Hellenic Maritime Cooperation Committee (Committee) on March 1, 2023, the Greek-owned fleet consisted of of 4,113 ships of various categories, with a carrying capacity of 349,963,241 DWT and 204,676,437 GT. Compared to the previous year's figures, this represents a decrease of 27 vessels, 5,379,453 DWT and 5,400,836 GT, compared to 4,140 vessels in March 2022. The figures include 194 vessels of various classes on order at the shipyards, in total 15,062,722 DWT and 12,464,797 GT.
15% of Greek shipping companies manage 56.2% of the fleet
Ship Management companies of Piraeus and Athens are put under the microscope by research of the Maritime Chronicles with the scientific contribution of Professor Yiannis Theotokas (Department of Maritime Studies, University of Piraeus).