As of February 2022, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) is an official member of the All-Aboard Alliance, the Alliance for a Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive Maritime Industry.
The All Aboard Alliance aims to bring together senior leaders across the maritime industry to collaboratively accelerate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts at sea and shore.
It sets out to prepare the sector to deal with long-term challenges such as:
- The global talent shortage affecting talent retention and attraction,
- The need for increased innovation to deal with decarbonisation, digitalisation, and automation, and
- The strong expectations from several stakeholders towards improving DEI.
Through our membership, we wish to connect with and learn from other organisations committed to the same values. Sharing valuable resources, support, best practices, will bridge opportunities for collaboration and collective impact
said BSM.
By becoming a member, BSM is committed to the following:
- Actively sponsor DEI initiatives with our senior leaders being highly involved.
- Equip and educate our people to understand how they can foster DEI across the company.
- Evaluate our progress and evolve our DEI strategic objectives.
- Communicate our progress externally on an annual basis.
Good day, this I to congratulate you as an exBSM employee myself, on your initiatives and vision; they address a number of shortcomings and weaknesses in this
professional direction (whether shore based or seabased professions are involved).
Relevant infrastructure lags behind too, legislation, designs and other considerations (contracts, safety gear etc) etc.
We do do too champion diversity, to balance gender associated skills and traits.