When you are looking for a job in the shipping industry

The shipping industry can be divided into the following categories:

The merchant fleet

Merchant ships are divided into a number of main groups, depending on what cargo they are designed for. For example, tankers are divided into gas, chemicals, product and crude oil tankers. Other vessels can be divided into bulk vessels, container vessels, roro or lolo vessels and vehicle transport vessels.

Ferries

Ferries covers everything from small road ferries to large passenger vessels. What they have in common is that they represent some form of combined transport of people and vehicles.

Sweden has ferry connections to its neighbouring countries from ports along almost the whole coast from Skellefteå to Strömstad. Examples of such lines are Stena Line, Silja Line, Viking Line, Nordö-Link, TT-Line, Scandlines, Destination Gotland and Eckerö Linjen.

Archipelago traffic

Archipelago traffic is an extensive activity in many parts of Sweden. Many people visit the archipelago in the summer.

Cruise traffic

The cruise industry is growing. The whole world is the working area and the combination of income and cruising is attractive to many. Before you sign an employment contract in the cruise industry, it is important to get the facts. Most websites describing the cruise industry are very positive, but the reality may differ.

Most of the tasks on a cruise ship are similar to those in a large hotel. The working hours are normally eight to twelve hours a day, seven days a week. It is also normal for employment contracts to be for at least four to six months.

More information about the cruise industry

Offshore

Oil and gas recovery offshore has formed the basis for a considerable market for shipping. Offshore activities in the North Sea directly generate about 50,000 jobs, creating considerable employment in peripheral activities and onshore industry.

If you become unemployed in another EU/EEA country but live in Sweden, you must register with Arbetsförmedlingen to be able to apply for compensation from the Swedish unemployment insurance fund. If you are not covered by the Swedish

unemployment insurance fund, you must apply for entrance as soon as you become unemployed. This is because in most EU/EEA countries and Switzerland, unemployment insurance ceases to apply to those who become unemployed. The Swedish unemployment insurance fund investigates and decides whether you fulfil the criteria for receiving unemployment benefit.

At the earliest, entry into the Swedish unemployment insurance fund is granted with effect from the first of the month in which the application arrives at the chosen unemployment insurance fund. If, for example, you are employed in Norway up to and including 15 June, the unemployment insurance fund must receive your application for entry before the end of June. Otherwise you risk a gap in your membership, which affects the level of any unemployment benefit.

If you have worked in another EU/EEA country or Switzerland, the unemployment insurance fund investigates whether you fulfil the criteria for being regarded as a frontier worker, a non-genuine frontier worker (seldom going home) or if you can be granted compensation under the 5-year rule in the Nordic Convention. If you do not fulfil the criteria, you must work in Sweden after working abroad for the foreign work to be able to form a basis for any unemployment benefit.

Before you work for a foreign employer, you need to know what protection you have. If you are thinking about working abroad, always contact Försäkringskassan (the Swedish Social Insurance Agency) and Skatteverket (the Swedish Tax Agency), as well as possibly your unemployment insurance fund.

You can telephone Skatteverket on +46 771-567 567. Ask for the marine group.

You can telephone Försäkringskassan on +46 771-524 524. Ask for the shipping office.

Here are a number of websites that could help you when you are looking for jobs in shipping. We do not list all companies that work with or have a website that concerns shipping.

You can also find shipping jobs via European employment services on the Eures job bank.

EURES job bank (europa.eu)

External job links

Martins marine page (dieselduck.info)

Transport & Offshore Services (tos.nl)

Norska sjöjobb (nav.no)

Hapag-Lloyd.com

Klubbmaritim.com (in Swedish)

OSM Thome (osmthome.com)

Shipping lines

Eckerölinjen (rederiabeckero.ax)

Finnlines.com

Godby Shipping AB (godbyshipping.fi)

Komandobryggan.se (in Swedish)

Lillgaard Rederi AB (lillgard.aland.fi)

Scandlines AB (scandlines.se)

Tallink Silja Line (tallink.com)

TT-Line (ttline.com)

Viking Line (vikingline.com)

Miramar Ship Index (miramarshipindex.nz)

Cruise links

All Cruise Ship Jobs (allcruisejobs.com)

CLIA Cruise lines International Association (cruising.org)

International Services - Recruiting Agency (internacionalservices.fr)

Education and training in shipping

Rönnowska skolan i Helsingborg (ronnowskaskolan.helsingborg.se) (in Swedish)

Sjöfartshögskolan skolan i Kalmar (lnu.se)

Marina läroverket i Danderyd (marinalaroverket.se) (in Swedish)

Seably.com

Sjömansskolan i Stockholm (sjomansskolan.se) (in Swedish)

Sjöfartens Utbildningsinstitut, SUI (sjofart.org) (in Swedish)

Soulmarine.se

Transportföretagen (transportforetagen.se)

Lindholmens tekniska gymnasium (gymnasium.se) (in Swedish)

Trade unions and interest organisations

Sjöfartsverket (sjofartsverket.se)

Transportstyrelsen.se

Sjöbefälsföreningen (sjobefalsforeningen.se)

Svensk sjöfart (sweship.se)

Seko-sjöfolk (sjofolk.se)

Other links

International Maritime Organization (IMO.org)

Paris Mou on port state control (parismou.org)

Sjöfartstidningen (sjofartstidningen.se) (in Swedish)