The Hellenic Seamen’s Pension Fund (NAT) presented 2025 maritime employment trends at Posidonia 2026 (1-5 June) ahead of the official release of its 4th Annual Maritime Employment Report.
Ahead of the official presentation of the report, the NAT hosted an event titled “Naut-statistics: Data as a compass for the evolution of maritime employment” at the stand of the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping. During the session, the Fund outlined how the forthcoming report maps the current landscape of maritime employment in Greece.
Presenting the report’s profile and key findings, Scientific Director and Professor at the University of West Attica, Dr. Gabriel Amitsis, noted that “the development of a systematic monitoring and analysis mechanism for the maritime labour market is emerging as a key tool in addressing the challenges faced by the Greek shipping industry in renewing its human capital.”
According to the 2025 trends highlighted in the report:
maritime employment continues to show an upward trajectory, alongside a sustained increase in female seafarer participation.
the number of registered active cadets and trainees at the country’s merchant marine academies appears to be stabilising
seasonality remains a persistent structural feature of registered maritime employment.
To remind, according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority’s ship and crew census conducted on 20 September 2024, a total of 1,107 ships employed 18,822 seafarers of Greek and foreign nationality. Of these, Greek-flagged ships accounted for 17,580 seafarers, with 63.5% being Greek and 36.5% foreign nationals.
In addition, Greek-owned ships sailing under foreign flags employed 1,242 seafarers, the majority of whom (89.0%) were Greek, while 11.0% were foreign nationals. In parallel, Greece is also experiencing one of the most dynamic increases in female maritime employment globally.
As stated by the Director of NAT, Georgia Maniati, “this year’s 4th NAT Report on Maritime Employment confirms our organization’s ongoing commitment to meaningfully contribute to public dialogue on its present and future, highlighting the profile of the maritime workforce for 2025.”
The President of the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping, Giorgos Alexandratos, congratulated the Director and NAT officials “for their systematic effort to provide important data that supports the goal of strengthening maritime employment,” and emphasized that “the human capital of shipping is its most valuable asset and we must ensure it is supported and strengthened by providing security for both the present and the future.”
The official presentation of the 4th Annual NAT Maritime Employment Report is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, 23 June at the Eugenides Foundation in Athens.