Education and Training

Culture and Art after covid-19 quarantine

Menia Kouli, Director of Public Affairs,Takis Foundation – Research Center for the Art & the Sciences (KETE)

Culture and Art after covid-19 quarantine

Menia Kouli, Director of Public Affairs, Takis Foundation KETE

We are slowly going back to work after the quarantine. Back to our offices but still cannot proceed and operate fully as before. I  think culture and especially contemporary art will face some difficulties over the months to follow, maybe the whole next year. However, we can get over...

https://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2020/05/18/culture-and-art-after-covid-19-quarantine/

Young freight forwarders set to take off with virtual bake off!

Robert Keen

Young freight forwarders set to take off with virtual bake off!

The British International Freight Association’s (BIFA) Young Forwarder Network will be relaunched online with a virtual ‘Bake Off’, taking place on Wednesday May 27th, starting at 15:00.

Director General, Robert Keen says: “Lockdown caused a halt to the networking activities of our Young Forwarder Network (YFN) shortly after it had celebrated a very successful first year of operation in March. The question for BIFA, was...

https://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2020/05/14/young-freight-forwarders-set-to-take-off-with-virtual-bake-off/

BIFA warns of looming deadline for Customs training funding applications

Robert Keen

BIFA warns of looming deadline for Customs training funding applications

The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is alerting its members to a looming deadline by which they can apply for funding from the Government’s £5 million grant scheme opened in December 2018, as part of an £8 million investment to support training and automation in the customs intermediaries sector.

Robert Keen, director general of BIFA, the trade association for UK freight forwarding and logistics...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/05/16/bifa-warns-of-looming-deadline-for-customs-training-funding-applications/

Live from Berlinale 2019: Greek representation and shipping values

Eva Marda

Live from Berlinale 2019: Greek representation and shipping values

by Eva Marda

Colours. Lights. Red bears. Pretzels. Beers at Alexanderplatz. Packed cinema theatres. We are in Berlin for the annual German film festival, Berlinale. The 69th Berlin International Film Festival which takes place from 7 until 17 of February, is a ceremony for film insiders, critics, producers, distributors, sales agents, artists as well as cinephiles.

From 400 films, we counted four Greek representations...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/02/15/live-from-berlinale-2019-greek-representation-and-shipping-values/

IMCA seminar on the use of the competence e-Portfolio

Nick Hough, IMCA Technical Adviser – HSSE, Offshore Survey and ROV

 IMCA SEMINAR ON THE USE OF THE COMPETENCE e-PORTFOLIO

  • Understanding the advantages of IMCA’s competence e-portfolio
  • How the e-portfolio works in practice
  • Seminar – 5 February 2019, Aberdeen

The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has developed a competence e-portfolio for contractors to assess the skills and experience of freelance personnel in a more standardised way. The seminar, ‘Re-establishing the vital role...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/01/29/imca-seminar-on-the-use-of-the-competence-e-portfolio/

Disaster Preparedness

Irene K. Notias and Theodore Chouliaras

Project Connect and The Institute of Maritime Educational Studies, (IMES) present: 

“NEVER FORGET”

A seminar on disaster preparedness for children ages 9 to 99 that raises awareness that to act proactively saves lives!

The training seminar on the prevention and management of natural disasters

  1. Fires (urban / forest)
  2. Floods-Winds
  3. Earthquakes

We encourage the next generation to be active citizens who care about community safety & rescue

and check the governing...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/12/01/disaster-preparedness/

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