(Finance) – In 2021 they have been scheduled 406,500 income from companies in the Economy of the Sea, almost 9% of the overall totalan increase of 22.6% compared to pre-Covid. This is what emerges from the volume “Economy of the Sea and Green Deal” of the Information System Excelsior of Unioncamere and ANPAL, made in collaboration with the Study Center of the G. Tagliacarne Chambers of Commerce, where other aspects of the blue supply chains are also examined, such as the important multiplier factor of the activities linked to the sea economy on the rest of the economy, which is equal to 1.9 euros for every euro invested.
Also in this area the difficulty in finding candidates is growing, reaching 24.7% of the total number of requests (+6 compared to 2019), but in the shipbuilding reaches 42.7%.
Almost 78% of the inputs programmed by blue enterprises is concentrated in accommodation and catering, which absorbs 315,010 entries, followed by tourism and entertainment services, with 47,360 entries (11.7%). The other sectors account for 10% as a whole, with employment needs ranging from 20,740 for maritime transport up to around 2,000 entries in the terrestrial and marine mining industries. 61.5% of income is represented by commercial and service professions and 18.1% by unskilled professions, the groups most requested in the prevailing supply chains of the economy of the sea, namely accommodation, catering and tourist services.
The group of plant and machinery operators is very important in the maritime transport of passengers and in the food / fish sector, while in the shipbuilding industry the demand for employees is mostly addressed to the figures belonging to the group of specialized workers.
From the analysis of Excelsior data by education levels, it emerges that in 2021 the professional figures most requested by blue companies are those in possession of a professional qualification or diploma (53.8%), followed by high school graduates (26.1%), while the demand for graduates (3.5%) and high school graduates (0.9%) is more limited.
The characteristic of the qualification it is combined in a different way with reference to the supply chain to which it belongs. In particular, in the sectors of the marine economy that are distinguished by medium and high technological intensity contents, there is a greater demand for workers with university training, for example 13.8% of income in land and marine extraction is represented by graduates, 10.5% in maritime transport and 10.4% in shipbuilding, a sector where, among other things, more
intense ownership of ITS securities (5.8%).