This International Women’s Day (Saturday March 8) will see the launch of a helpline that ensures female seafarers have access to a trusted, female-led support system whenever they need it.
Female cadets and seafarers can choose to speak in confidence to a female on the 24/7 helpline offered by global maritime welfare charity Sailors’ Society.
The service, which will provide emotional support, crisis assistance, and peer-to-peer connections for female seafarers and cadets worldwide, is being...
Nationality, high qualifications and male support may be factors that can reduce the degree of discrimination against female maritime officers, according to Indian researchers.
“Higher qualification marine women officers and her male companion’s support are highly essential to reduce the discrimination experience onboard,” the researchers concluded in their paper, “Exploring the...
I like the lifestyle and I have been doing it for twenty years
Meet Sofia Lundmark, Master Mariner, who loves her work and is very honest about that. She loves the lifestyle of a seafarer, and she knows she will always be working in shipping.
We discuss digitalisation, electronic paperwork, HSQE Health, safety, quality and environment, and why. We touch upon the fact that few people see the reason behind all rules and regulations and that it takes a very long time to put them into force.
We...
https://shippingpodcast.com/178-sofia-lundmark-master-mariner-knutsen-oas/
A persistence in tradition and several anachronistic social structure models seem to be holding the shipping industry away from being more inclusive and diversified and brings women of the 21st century still confronted with superstitions and misconceptions around their potential participation in seafaring careers, says an article published in Safety4sea.
The Female Living LifeImagine a man’s society where you are the only female, what would the challenges be and what would you do differently?...
https://mfame.guru/are-female-seafarers-given-equal-on-board-opportunities/
Female seafarers are now being supported by the world’s fastest-growing ship registry to achieve their Certificates of Competency (CoC), Certificate of Proficiency (CoP) and Certificates of Endorsement (CoE) as part of the IMO’s continuing drive to empower women working in the maritime sector.
Palau International Ship Registry (PISR) is building on the IMO’s 31-year Women in Maritime program by offering free of charge CoC, CoP and CoE certificates to women looking to develop their maritime...
https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/palau-support-women-seafarers-in-new-training-push/
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More women are joining the maritime ranks in a variety of professions within the industry. To encourage this trend, IMO supported a training course aimed at female officials from maritime and port authorities.
25 women from 17 developing countries took part in the two-week “Women in Port Management” course, hosted in Le Havre, France (24 June – 5 July). The course covered lectures on port management, port security, marine environment, facilitation of maritime traffic,...
As part of its gender inclusion initiatives in the nautical industry, world-leading towage operator, Svitzer hired the first 100% female crew for the Dominican Republic.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Over the waters of Rio Haina and Caucedo, in the Dominican Republic, operates a very special vessel; it is the Svitzer Monte Cristi, a 70-ton tugboat that helps maneuver larger vessels so they can dock, undo or be driven through the channels.
The boat is special not only because of the...
https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/first-all-female-crew-sails-waters-in-latin-america/