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BCG – Weekly Brief: Ensuring AI Lives Up to Your Values

BCG – Weekly Brief: Ensuring AI Lives Up to Your Values

To BCG’s network around the world,

Artificial intelligence holds enormous promise for all stakeholders: better performance for companies and superior and more personalized products and services for customers. For many businesses, it’s a capability that has only grown in importance since the pandemic began.

But we’ve seen serious downsides, too. For example, there have been equity issues in AI algorithms used for housing and mortgage offers,...

https://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2020/09/08/bcg-weekly-brief-ensuring-ai-lives-up-to-your-values/

Allow crew changes to resolve humanitarian crisis, insists IMO Secretary-General

IMO’s Secretary-General Kitack Lim

Allow crew changes to resolve humanitarian crisis, insists IMO Secretary-General

Read the full statement here 

A humanitarian crisis is taking place at sea and urgent action is needed to protect seafarers’ health and ensure the safety of shipping, the IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has warned. In a strong statement issued ahead of the General Assembly of the United Nations, he called on governments to take swift action to resolve the crew change crisis.  

It is...

https://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2020/09/08/allow-crew-changes-to-resolve-humanitarian-crisis-insists-imo-secretary-general/

American Club Member Alert (September 8, 2020) – PRC restrictions on vessels making port calls within 14 days of crew changes

American Club Member Alert (September 8, 2020) – PRC restrictions on vessels making port calls within 14 days of crew changes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (PRC): RESTRICTIONS ON VESSELS MAKING PORT CALLS WITHIN 14 DAYS OF CREW CHANGESDue to the COVID-19 pandemic, many ports in the PRC are implementing strict control measures on vessels which have changed crew overseas within 14 days of arrival at those PRC ports.

Some ports are adopting these control measures for vessels having...

https://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2020/09/08/american-club-member-alert-september-8-2020-prc-restrictions-on-vessels-making-port-calls-within-14-days-of-crew-changes/

Pro appoints Head of Data Management and Risk Modelling

Sue Barenburg

Pro appoints Head of Data Management and Risk Modelling

Experienced Market Practitioner Sue Barenbrug to lead Augmented Intelligence Drive as Company expands Insurance Services Vertical

London, 7th September 2020: Global re/insurance outsourcing and consulting specialists Pro Global Holdings Limited (‘Pro’) announces that Sue Barenbrug has joined the company as Head of Data Management and Risk Modelling and to lead its CAI augmented intelligence project.

The innovative CAI platform...

https://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2020/09/07/pro-appoints-head-of-data-management-and-risk-modelling/

Danica expands with new office in Riga, Latvia

Henrik Jensen, Danica Founder and Managing Director.

Danica expands with new office in Riga, Latvia

Danica Crewing Specialists has opened a new office in Riga, Latvia – giving access to a large and growing pool of highly competent officers from the Baltic countries.

Announcing the opening, Danica Managing Director Henrik Jensen said: “These countries boast large pools of highly competent and very experienced chemical, product and gas tanker officers. The area hosts as many as 30,000 seafarers and...

https://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2020/09/07/danica-expands-with-new-office-in-riga-latvia/

IUA appoints director of public policy

Helen Dalziel

IUA appoints director of public policy

Helen Dalziel has been appointed as Director of Public Policy at the International Underwriting Association. The organisation which represents insurance and reinsurance companies operating in the London insurance market announced that she will take a lead role in all its work on prudential and conduct regulatory issues, both in UK and relevant international jurisdictions.

Helen, previously Senior Legal and Market Services Executive at the IUA,...

https://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2020/09/03/204276/

Now is not the time for unnecessary trips to the office

Lawrence Waterman, Chairman of the British Safety Council

Now is not the time for unnecessary trips to the office 

British Safety Council calls on Government not to pressurise employers to get workers back into the office. If people can work from home, they should have the choice to work from home: for the sake of people’s health, wellbeing and the economy.

From next week people will be encouraged to go back to their workplaces as part of a government campaign. Its message will be that employers...

https://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2020/08/28/now-is-not-the-time-for-unnecessary-trips-to-the-office/

Sailors’ Society launches dedicated 24-hour helpline for Indian seafarers

The round-the-clock helpline was set up after Sailors Welfare Association, an affiliate of international maritime welfare charity Sailors’ Society, saw a marked increase in calls for help from desperate seafarers.

Sailors’ Society launches dedicated 24-hour helpline for Indian seafarers

Sailors Welfare Association, an affiliate of international maritime welfare charity Sailors’ Society, has launched a dedicated India helpline to support seafarers and their families through the current COVID-19...

https://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2020/08/25/sailors-society-launches-dedicated-24-hour-helpline-for-indian-seafarers/

BIMCO and ICS Prepare for New Seafarer Report

BIMCO and ICS Prepare for New Seafarer Report
With the future of crewing high on the agenda, BIMCO and ICS are preparing for the launch of the latest Seafarer Workforce Report (previously known as the Manpower Report), the industry standard resource for ship operators, agencies and governments seeking the market intelligence they need to develop crewing and training strategies fit for the future. 

Guy Platten

“The shipping industry is evolving rapidly,” says Guy Platten, Secretary General of...

https://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2020/08/17/bimco-and-ics-prepare-for-new-seafarer-report/

The Mission to Seafarers extend nominations for Singapore Seafarers’ Awards to recognise shipping’s key workers

The Mission to Seafarers extend nominations for Singapore Seafarers’ Awards to recognise shipping’s key workers

Awards recognise seafarers, shore staff, volunteers and organisations
supporting seafarer welfare

LONDON: Monday 10th August 2020 – Leading international seafarer welfare charity, The Mission to Seafarers, has extended nominations for its annual Seafarers’ Awards, hosted in Singapore, until 30th September.

The dinner will take place at Singapore’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel. It is...

https://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2020/08/10/the-mission-to-seafarers-extend-nominations-for-singapore-seafarers-awards-to-recognise-shippings-key-workers/

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