Employment trends in all sectors related to the sea or using sea resources

This study was commissioned to provide a better and more holistic picture about employment and employment trends in maritime sectors at European and Member States levels.

The key objectives of this research were:
+ To analyse current level of employment in all sea related sectors, trends in employment from the past decade and forecasts for the coming ten years at Member State and European (EU-25) levels.
+ To indicate those areas of activity where further data collection and analysis would be necessary or where methods for data collection in these areas would need to be refined.
+ To provide an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the activities related to the sea or that use sea resources.
+ To formulate policy recommendation to the areas where public intervention can play a role in facilitating the exploitation of opportunities or in taking action to counter threats which can have a positive effect on sustainable job creation.

The scope of this research has been to assemble and analyse existing data from previous studies rather than to gather primary data.