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THE Sailors’ Society, the international Seafaring charity based in Southampton, is encouraging women from around the country to take part in the Adidas Women’s Challenge, to raise funds for its ongoing work.
Last year, 30,000 women entered the five kilometre challenge, and organisers this year are hopeful that this event will be even bigger and better. Taking place on September 7 in Hyde Park, London, the Adidas Women’s Challenge is a great chance for women to help support the Sailors’ Society, push themselves and more importantly, have fun. For more information on the Sailors’ Society or how to get involved, please visit: www.sailors-society.org
Snap happy
THE Container Shipping Information Service has launched a worldwide photography competition to encourage all of us to think about the huge impact container shipping has on our lives.
This is the first major initiative of the CSIS that was set up by global carriers earlier this year in an effort to raise awareness of the industry among the general public.
Entitled ‘The box that changed our lives’ and aimed at amateur or ‘have-a-go’ photographers, the competition will run throughout August and September 2008.
To enter the competition, applicants should email their pictures to: photocomp@shipsandboxes.com.
These can be of unusual or innovative ways of using containers, such as community centres and housing, or simply images of the containers in transit onboard a ship or lorry. The ten best images each week will be published on the CSIS website, www.shipsandboxes.com
The overall best entry will be picked by a panel of judges, including US-based professional photographer Nick Souza, and awarded the winning prize of a top-of-the-range SLR digital camera. Two runners-up will also receive digital cameras.
Identity crises
THE Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers has been suffering from confusion.
Sharing the same initials as the International Chamber of Shipping can be a bit of a problem. Then there is sometimes a misunderstanding about whether there is an overlap with the Baltic Exchange. No, is the answer.
The name itself is misleading, as membership is not confined to shipbrokers. The ICS is the professional body for all qualified intermediaries, including ship managers and agents, as well as brokers, and sets the examination syllabuses. A record number of papers were taken this year.
Some of the world’s biggest container lines are represented on the Liner Committee through local agencies, and are starting to use the ICS as a lobbying body. That role was recognised recently when the ICS was invited to join the One Voice initiative designed to ensure the UK maritime community presents a united front in dealing with government. Organisations in other countries are now watching that project with interest.
So director Alan Phillips plans to start using a name that more accurately reflects the organisation. The formal title will remain the same, but he will refer to the ICS as the Institute of Commercial Shipping in certain situations.
That won’t remove the risk of being muddled with the other ICS, but should make it easier to explain what the institute is all about.
Dublin Port goes global
DUBLIN Port has got out of the stocks quickly following the publication by the Irish Government of its new Harbours Amendment Bill, giving State-owned ports the opportunity to invest for development. It is exploring joint ventures in India and Cambodia and advising the Indonesian government on the building of a container port at Sabang Port in Aceh.
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