View newsletter here. It’s official: the global pandemic is one year in and counting. No one has been unaffected by the impacts of COVID, and many have tragically died. We’ve learned much in this past year about ourselves (who knew…
View the newsletter here. On January 3, 1995 I was invited to attend a banking overview of the shipping industry in New York. Being new to my job at International Marketing Strategies (thank you Jim Lawrence!), I was excited to…
View the newsletter here. As the maritime industry barrels along the pathway of sustainability, I thought it would be helpful to develop a mnemonic device to support our collective efforts for ESG. You are probably aware that a mnemonic (the…
View the newsletter here Last week saw the release of a joint study done by Harvard University in collaboration with the Universities of Birmingham and Leicester, along with University College of London. In it, they stated that in 2018 more…
View the newsletter here It is easy to get caught up bemoaning the challenges and barriers to success that crop up during these crazy days. In our industry it seems as though we are being inundated, perhaps burdened, by regulatory,…
View the newsletter here Over the holidays, I was blessed to be the Honorary Chairwoman for the Heroes at Sea fund/friend raiser to support mariners who are suffering under the crew change crisis due to COVID-19. As a result of…
This week saw 300 shipowners and charterers come together to plead the case of mariners in our crew change crisis. Last October, we saw charterers come together to launch the Sea Cargo Charter and 18 months ago was the creation…
January 25–SINGAPORE In an exclusive agreement between a leading pharma manufacturing company based in Singapore and AlphaRize Management Ltd. to distribute rapid result COVID-19 testing kits, one of the major barriers to solving the crew change crisis is solved. The…
January 19, 2021 - Carleen Lyden Walker, Chief Evolution Officer of SHIPPINGInsight, and Chris Aversano, President of the Connecticut Maritime Association (CMA) announced today they will be repeating their collaboration to produce North American Shipping Week to be held October…
As we enter 2021 with wild abandon (and some regions are, regrettably, wilder than others) it is important not only to focus on our goals for the year, but also to celebrate our successes in 2020. These seem to have…