The Global Maritime Forum (GMF) has launched a data collection initiative to support the development of the Global Baseline for Living and Working at Sea (2026–2030), aimed at building a shared global evidence base on conditions for people working at sea.
The Global Baseline is a key deliverable of the All Aboard 2030 Strategy, which seeks to make life at sea safer, more attractive and more sustainable. It will bring together existing industry data and insights across ten focus areas covering safety, health, wellbeing, inclusion, training and careers, providing a benchmark against which progress towards 2030 can be measured.
The initiative consists of two complementary components. The Industry Baseline will draw on publicly available reports and data voluntarily shared by organisations across the maritime sector, while the Alliance Baseline will be based on survey responses from All Aboard Alliance member companies. Together, they are intended to provide a comprehensive picture of living and working conditions at sea.
Following the finalisation of the indicator framework and the All Aboard Alliance Baseline Survey, GMF is now collecting data across 30 indicators and four strategic goals.
Organisations are not expected to provide information for every indicator. Partial submissions are welcomed and can contribute both to strengthening the overall evidence base and to identifying important industry data gaps where information is currently unavailable.
According to GMF, submitted data will be treated confidentially, and individual organisations or persons will not be identifiable in the analysis unless the information is already publicly available and explicitly referenced.
The deadline for submissions is 21 August.
Data should be submitted directly to the Global Maritime Forum at can@globalmaritimeforum.org.
Further details on the indicators, their definitions and the types of data being sought are available in the Indicator Guidance Note.