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Maritime SheEO will help remove glass ceiling in shipping industry: Sanjam Sahi Gupta
'The initiative will offer a bouquet of services focussing on the business case for diversity'
Sanjam Sahi Gupta runs Sitara Shipping, a privately-owned non-vessel operating common carrier (NVOCC) based in Mumbai. In an industry where women in leadership roles are an exception rather than the norm - Harjeet Kaur Joshi, the current Chairperson and Managing Director of Shipping Corporation, is a prime example - Gupta has been at the forefront of driving gender equality and diversity in shipping.
A founding member of the Women's International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA) in India, board member of WISTA International and a member of the executive board of directors of the World Maritime University, Gupta received the Sandvik Gender Award for her outstanding contribution and commitment to gender equality in 2018.
In 2019, she launched a new project to support women leadership within the maritime sector, aptly named Maritime SheEO, which will hold its first conference here on March 20, endorsed by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), International Chamber of Shipping and supported by the Directorate General of Shipping and United Nations Global Compact, India.
How did the idea germinate and what is Maritime SheEO all about? Excerpts from an interview:
What is Maritime SheEO?
It is a concept to support the next generation of female maritime leaders. Maritime SheEO offers a bouquet of services focussing on the business case for diversity. It aims to make solutions that can impact the entire maritime industry - with a focus on diversity and inclusion (D&I), leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and competitive advantage.
It employs D&I initiatives to address and eliminate unconscious biases, uses gender sensitisation techniques throughout the programme and enables the smooth transition of women from ship to shore positions.
One of its main focus areas is to conduct leadership accelerator programmes for women in the maritime and logistics sectors. Further, it works with employers to make an environment conducive for women to rise to leadership roles.
How did it all begin?
Women in maritime is not just women sailing, it's also women on shore. It's both. You cannot take one without the other. The starting point for Maritime SheEO was the Sandvik Gender Award (I was the recipient in 2018), which funded India's first survey for data on women in maritime encompassing 225 companies working in all the verticals of maritime.
The survey showed that not only were there very few women leaders in maritime, but that women also felt they lacked the training and skills to rise to leadership positions. It was a baseline report but a good starting point to know more and to discuss the maritime industry with respect to gender parity.
We basically have an industry in which half the workforce is not allowed to run at the speed it can. It's essentially half the workforce that is going around with its leg in a plaster and we continuously keep asking - why aren't you running faster, why aren't you CEO, why aren't you reaching the ranks of captain or chief engineer. It's a completely loaded question.
Today more than half of our prospective workforce aren't given the opportunities they deserve, so that our industry can also prosper.
Do you think enough has not been done to support women to emerge as leaders in maritime?
On the one hand, we lament about the lack of talent or labour pool available. On the other hand, we have women who want to work, want to have the right training, education, and the right motivation, but are not given equal opportunities to work.
It is well established that the maritime industry is ridden with systematic gender discrimination against women - conscious and sub-conscious. Working to identify and eliminate these gender biases will be a task to prioritise for every manager in every company, should they succeed in hiring and retaining female talent. We will use the platform of Maritime SheEO to remove the glass ceiling in the industry.
What is the downside of this gender bias?
Let's take, for example, seafaring. We have a lot of women who want to make a career at sea but they come ashore very soon due to the lack of a conducive environment or lack of employment. We have these women who are technically qualified - either on the deck or engine side - who are very good candidates to take on operational roles.
What if we have women entering the workforce to eliminate the demand-supply gap...to not let them work is a crime against economics and common sense. And if we want to make our industry and our country even better, then let's give it a big boost by just letting women participate even at the inequitable terms that they can participate.
The untapped potential of letting women participate in the job market is the biggest underutilised economic potential there is today. It's bigger than if you found source of cheap, clean energy fuel.Posted On:2-Mar-2020
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Chinese tanker siezed by Cambodia, suspect in DPRK sanctions violation
Tanker COURAGEOUS was seized by Cambodia Navy Police on Feb 27 in Cambodian waters, arriving there after being expelled from Taiwan, as a violator of sanctions imposed on North Korea. Tanker is suspect in illegal oil ship-to-ship transfers to North Korean tankers. COURAGEOUS was taken to Sihanoukville, Cambodia, berthed there on Mar 1, for further legal proceedings.Posted On:2-Mar-2020
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Seven Seas Splendor Christened in Miami
Luxury cruise line Regent Seven Seas Cruises, a brand of the Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd (NCLH), christened its newest ship Seven Seas Splendor in Miami.
Seven Seas Splendor, built by Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri, was delivered to its owner in January 2020.
"Seven Seas Splendor is the epitome of luxury perfected," said Frank Del Rio, president and chief executive officer of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.Posted On:2-Mar-2020
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Seaspan Wraps Up Reorganization
Hong Kong-based containership operator Seaspan Corporation and Atlas Corp have announced the closing of Seaspan s previously announced holding company reorganization to make a new holding company, Atlas.
In conjunction with the reorganization, Atlas expects to announce the closing of Atlas’ USD 750 million acquisition of APR Energy Limited, a company specializing in fast-track, mobile power solutions.Posted On:2-Mar-2020
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Trafigura, Phillips 66 make JV to Develop Deepwater Port in Texas
Phillips 66 and Trafigura Group have formed a 50/50 joint venture, Bluewater Texas Terminal, to develop an offshore deepwater port project located approximately 21 nautical miles east of the entrance to the Port of Corpus Christi.
As informed, the proposed project, to be constructed by Phillips 66, will consist of up to two single point mooring buoys capable of fully loading very large crude carriers (VLCCs) to export crude oil.Posted On:2-Mar-2020
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Safe Bulkers Delays 5 Scrubber Installations amid Coronavirus Impact
Monaco-based dry bulk shipping company Safe Bulkers has pushed the installation of scrubbers on five of its vessels for the second quarter of the year amid shipyard closures and delays in China caused by the outbreak of the coronavirus.
Namely, shipyards in China, many of which would otherwise be busy with IMO 2020 scrubber retrofitting, have remained closed and declared force majeure in many cases as workers are advised to stay home to curb the outbreak.Posted On:2-Mar-2020
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Bulker Detained in Philippines for Giving False Port Clearance Data
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has detained a Panama-flagged cargo vessel after the ship s captain allegedly gave false port clearance information amid intensified maritime security measures against coronavirus.
According to the initial report, the 39,037 cbm Harmony Six docked in Changzhou, China on February 13, 2020, and left on February 18, 2020.Posted On:2-Mar-2020
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Second highest annual cargo recorded in 2019 for Port of Vancouver
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority today released the 2019 year-end statistics for cargo and passengers moving through the Port of Vancouver. Overall, cargo through the port was 144 million metric tonnes for the year, down 2% from the 2018 record of 147 million metric tonnes but the second highest in port history.Posted On:2-Mar-2020
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Shoreham Port Launch New Company- Shoreham Port Solutions
This week Shoreham Port have launched Shoreham Port Solutions, a new subsidiary company. The new company will provide high quality resources, training and expertise on a commercial basis to both Shoreham Port and other large customers across the Port estate, expanding the wide-ranging services that Shoreham Port already offer.Posted On:2-Mar-2020
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JNPT nervous as dedicated freight corridor runs behind schedule
A potential delay of at least two years in getting connected to the game-changing and keenly awaited Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) is making state-owned Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), India’s busiest container gateway, jittery.
JNPT Chairman Sanjay Sethi admitted that the DFC connectivity is "behind schedule", which could adversely affect its growth prospects.Posted On:2-Mar-2020
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Iraq plans to launch second and third phases of Faw Grand Port
Iraq will start work on second and third phases of Al-Faw Grand Port mega project in Basra once the 2020 budget gets parliamentary approval, a government official said.
Mudher Mohammed Saleh, financial advisor to the Iraqi government told Zawya Projects that projects would be developed in partnership with the private sector.Posted On:2-Mar-2020
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