Tag: women in shipping

Maritime UK has been awarded £100,000 in grant funding from the Merchant Navy Welfare Board (MNWB) on behalf of the Department for Transport (DfT) to deliver a Maritime Roadshow for Girls throughout 2023.

Sinikka Hartonen, Secretary General for the One Sea Association notes that the shipping industry is going through a transition period, and she is excited for being part of that change and responsible for reshaping existing business models and create new ones.

As per the provisions under Sec. 4 of the Sexual Harassment of Women of Workplace, India has constituted the Complaint Committee for the Directorate and its allied offices.

More than one hundred women leaders have registered as speakers on the new Maritime Speakers Bureau platform.

On 16 November, Dr Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, President of the World Maritime University (WMU) delivered the keynote address for the Maritime SheEO conference, speaking of changing leadership paradigms in the maritime industry. 

IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has received Dr. Ann Fenech, as the new President of the Comité Maritime International (CMI). Dr. Fenech became the first female President in the CMI's 125 year history.

Women in Maritime of West and Central Africa (WIMOWCA) - the newest group set up with the support of IMO to champion the place of women in the maritime sector - has held its first conference since being inaugurated in Dakar, Senegal, from 6-7 December.

Mia Elg, R&D Manager, Deltamarin, wishes the industry to make the transition to sustainable shipping more efficient. In that regard, the interesting challenge would really be to influence in the behavior of entire systems, Mrs Elg notes, highlighting that there are many ways to optimize both environmental and economical performance in shipping.

The shipping industry is making progress on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), according to the results of the 2022 Annual Review from the Diversity Study Group.

A report by ETF and ECSA named “Enhanced participation of women in European shipping – The opportunity to increase gender balance in the EU maritime sector,” aims to address the issue of women seafarers being underrepresented in the industry.