07 March 2025
In 2024, taking all ESPO board meetings and technical committees together, women represented 41.33% of the port professionals participating in the meetings. This remains at a constant level compared to the share of women participating in 2023, which was also 41%. Since ESPO started monitoring the gender balance of its internal meetings in 2018, the share of female participants has been increasing and remains stable.
The Executive Committee, which is...
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...
| In support of this year’s International Women’s Day, held annually on 8 March, the fifth edition of World Sailing’s global women’s sailing festival, Steering the Course, will reaffirm the federation’s commitment to creating new pathways at all levels of the sport for talented female sailors, coaches and officials. Two global festivals will be held in solidarity with the International Women’s Day theme of #AccelerateAction and elevating women and girls’ participation and achievement in... |
By Emily Dove, BLUE Communications / WISTA UK
WISTA UK held its prestigious annual black-tie dinner on the evening of February 26, 2025, at the iconic In & Out Club in St James’, London. The event brought together leading figures from across the maritime industry to celebrate diversity, inclusion and the remarkable progress made in advancing women’s roles within the sector. The evening kicked off with a warm welcome from WISTA UK President Monica Kohli, OBE, and was expertly hosted by Namrata...
Oslo, Norway: Norwegian chapter of WISTA (Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association) recently held its Annual General Meeting in Oslo at the office of law firm Thommessen, with over 50 members attending in person and a record number of proxy votes. Five board positions were elected from a record total of 13 candidates present.
Capt. Jaquelyn Burton, EMBA, AFNI, Director of Experience Design at Kongsberg Maritime, was selected as President and is both the first non-Norwegian and...
by John Faraclas
The best ever global social event of its kind over the last 40 years in the British capital – the administrative capital of Shipping, was by far, the 30th Anniversary Ball of HESGB at the iconic West End venue JW Marriott Grosvenor House on Park Lane, adjacent to Hyde Park.
842: the pin number unlocking success!
Breaking all previous records with 842 members, friends and guests from just over 40 nations:
https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/03/03/of-nuts-and-bolts/
by John Faraclas
This is the ideal moment to refer again to the Death of Diplomacy following our first comment which coincided with the US elections last November.
Situation on Planet Ocean and in particular the messy Ukrainian and Middle Eastern wars are not yet over and we are going to witness incalculable repercussions affecting us all and many more conflicts which are about to surface.
In certain quarters, diplomacy (so-called) is being replaced by overt bullying, insults and role-play (aimed...
https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/03/03/death-of-diplomacy-part-2/
WISTA UK Celebrates 51st Year of Advancing Diversity in the Maritime Industry
[London, 27 February 2025] – The Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA) UK is proud to continue its legacy of promoting diversity, inclusion, and leadership in the maritime industry as it embarks on its 51st year. Following the successful 50th-anniversary celebrations...
THREAT & RISK ASSESSMENT BRIEF UPDATE
Brief Update No 25/07 Date: 26 Feb 2025
STATEMENT
This document has been approved for distribution by Sea Guardian S.G. Ltd / Operations Department. The provided Intel and information derive from open sources, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the Joint Maritime Information Center...
https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/02/27/sea-guardian-threat-risk-assessment-21-feb-26-feb-2025/
Susannah Streeter, head of money and markets, Hargreaves Lansdown.
‘’The slide continues for...