World Maritime Day

CLIA honours women leaders in cruise sector

Honoring the World Maritime Day, themed ‘Empowering Women in the Maritime Community’, CLIA presents some of its most important members of its team, raising awareness of the importance of diversity and gender equality in the cruise industry as well as highlight the significant contributions of women at the helm of cruise leadership.

Women play a crucial role in today’s shipping sector, highlighting that gender diversity is of a great importance. Thus, in celebration of gender diversity, 18...

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18 women’s thoughts for an exciting career in shipping

The global movement for gender equality and women’s empowerment has broken new ground in recent years, making headlines in all sectors and in maritime industry as well. Implementing strategies and initiatives that enable the industry to embrace the gender diversity is critical nowadays more than ever!

This year, IMO called on everyone in the maritime world and beyond to get onboard, dedicating the World Maritime Day to ‘Empowering Women in the Maritime Community’ as the powerful theme day...

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World Maritime Day 2019: Supporting gender equality

On 26 September, the global maritime community celebrates the annual World Maritime Day, under the theme “Empowering Women in the Maritime Community“. Gender equality has been recognized as one of the key drivers to enhance diversity and therefore efficiency in the business world, and especially in the male-dominated shipping sector.

Gender equality has been recognized as one of the key platforms on which people can build a sustainable future. It is one of the 17 goals that underpin the UN’s...

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Watch: ICS and IMO join forces to empower women in shipping

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) join forces in a new video in celebration of this year’s theme for World Maritime Day ‘Empowering Women in the Maritime Community‘, which is scheduled to be screened on Thursday, September 26, at the IMO headquarters in London.

The IMO Secretary-General, Kitack Lim, commented that

To ensure its own sustainability, shipping needs diversity in the workforce. Diversity is better; it’s better for teamwork,...

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SHM Shipcare Organises CWIM 2019 – Celebrating Women In Maritime

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The issue of Gender Inequality is older than you and I reading this. What started on a social level has percolated deep into the corporate echelons, including the Maritime sector.

Lack of a level playing field and recognizing the potential of women as equal to men are some of the issues plaguing the otherwise posh sector. The glamour of being at the sea, going places and earning in 6 figures is eclipsed by the constant backlash at the regulatory bodies for not doing enough to make seafaring...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/shm-shipcare-organises-cwim-2019-celebrating-women-in-maritime/

World Maritime Day: Supporting Gender Equality, Empowering Women

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On 26 September, IMO and the global maritime community celebrate the annual World Maritime Day, under the theme “Empowering Women in the Maritime Community”.

“Gender equality has been recognized as one of the key platforms on which people can build a sustainable future. It is one of the 17 goals that underpin the UN’s Sustainable Development Agenda, which countries all over the world have pledged to implement,” said IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim.

“Helping our Member States achieve the SDGs and...

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Mentor for success, MAJ urges maritime community as industry celebrates role of women in the shipping sector

Claudia Grant, Deputy Director General of the Maritime Authority of Jamaica, chairs the International Maritime Organization’s Implementation of IMO Instruments (III) committee.

Mentor for success, MAJ urges maritime community as industry celebrates role of women in the shipping sector

The importance of mentoring will be highlighted this week as Jamaica celebrates World Maritime Day during Maritime Awareness Week.

Members of the Maritime Authority of Jamaica (MAJ) and the Women in Maritime...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/09/24/mentor-for-success-maj-urges-maritime-community-as-industry-celebrates-role-of-women-in-the-shipping-sector/

Gender equality at the centre of World Maritime Day Parallel Event

Shipping must draw talent from every corner of the globe and every sector to ensure its own sustainability, was the key message of IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim, in his opening remarks to  the 2019 IMO World Maritime Day Parallel Event, held in Cartagena, Colombia, on 15-18 September.

Improving the participation of women in society leads to better social and economic outcomes. This is also true in the maritime community. So, it is critical that women are provided with equal access to...

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World Maritime Day 2019 – Empowering Women In The Maritime Community

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The World Maritime Day theme for the year is “Empowering Women in the Maritime Community”. This provides an opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of gender equality, in line with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, specifically, SDG 5, and to highlight the important – yet under-utilized – contribution of women within the maritime sector.

Empowering women fuels thriving economies across the world, spurs growth and development, and benefits everyone working in the global...

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