Maritime UK Weekly Update
Maritime UK
The collective voice for the UK's maritime industries. We champion and work to enable a thriving maritime sector.
Get Involved: Less than 50 days left to submit your entry to the Maritime UK Awards
Held for the first time in?September 2019, the Maritime UK Awards are run by the industry for the benefit of the industry.?From a judging panel of internationally recognised maritime leaders to an awards evening at the?DoubleTree by Hilton Hull, the Maritime UK Awards are a unique and impactful way to showcase your business, and collectively, to celebrate a thriving sector, worth ￡116bn to the UK economy. Each year the Maritime UK Awards rotate around the UK, having visited Plymouth, Portsmouth and Glasgow so far, the 2023 Awards visit Hull.
Submissions close on 20 January so get your entry in now to avoid disappointment!
Westminster: Maritime UK briefs new Maritime Minister
On Thursday, Maritime UK Chair, Sarah Kenny OBE and CEO, Ben Murray met with the newly appointed maritime Minister, Baroness Vere. The briefing was focused on Maritime UK's?Programme for Government, which sets out over forty policy recommendations across its five key priority areas. The central importance of Maritime 2050 was championed along with the need for cross-government partnership in the refresh to the Clean Maritime Plan. Baroness Vere is due to attend Maritime UK's National Council on Wednesday, where she will meet with industry leaders to discuss the government's maritime priorities.
Holyrood: Maritime UK members brief MSPs apprenticeship funding and cruise industry
On Tuesday, a contingent of Maritime UK members attended a special briefing session with the Scottish Parliament's Maritime and Shipbuilding Cross-Party Group in Holyrood, the secretariat of which is run by Maritime UK. The topics raised at the session were focused on the funding disparities between Scottish and English maritime apprenticeships (particularly those for the workboat industry) and the role of the cruise industry in Scotland.?
Future Skills: Final Maritime Skills Commission meeting of 2022 held at Associated British Ports
The Maritime Skills Commission met for the final time in 2022 at ABP's offices in London with a packed agenda focused on future skills in the maritime sector.
The agenda covered the export of maritime education and training, cadet training and modernisation programme, jobs for green skills project, future ports data modelling, people and behaviour project, ratings review and future labour market intelligence work.
Get Involved: On your marks… Get ready with the ICS Online Courses
The Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers promoting a series of new online courses, due to start in the new year.
Registration is open for ICS Online Academy online courses in preparation for May 2023 examinations. The courses include great extra learning materials, access to topical webinars, an individual feedback service on assignments and mock exam and most importantly, online classes delivered live starting early in January 2023 with a fortnightly schedule.
Previous learners achieve highly from these fully structured programmes, coming back year-on-year to get to the finish line faster.
For more details please email ICS at?[email protected], or call: +44 (0)20 7357 9722 to speak to an advisor.
Upcoming events
Department for Transport are holding a Maritime Accessibility Conference for disability organisations, ferry, cruise, and ...
7 Dec 2022
Join us for our first intersectional Diversity in Maritime meeting which will bring together the ...
15 Dec 2022
You are invited to join us for the first Women in Maritime network meeting for 2023 on Tuesday 21 February from 10:30am ...
21 Feb 2023
Join us for the second Pride in Maritime Day at the conclusion of LGBT+ History Month..
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28 Feb 2023
Weekly roundup
Member news and views
COP27: ITF condemns 'exclusion' of workers -?Nautilus International
Chamber speaks to MSPs on a pathway to green shipping -?UK Chamber of Shipping
New partnership between UKSA and Marine Society expands apprenticeship offering -?British Marine
Recovery of Persons in Water (PIW) Guide to Good Practice for Small Vessels -?Workboat Association
‘Gloomy prospects’, ‘losing steam’ – UNCTAD summarises shipping’s outlook -?Baltic Exchange
Major new report identifies pathways to unlocking ￡75bn financing needed for UK shipping’s energy transition -?Maritime London
Solar Solve Supplies USNS Ship of the Future -?SMI
Maritime in the news
New project aims to revolutionise zero-emissions shipbuilding and create Scottish jobs -?Insider
EU strikes deal to make ships pay for their carbon emissions -?Reuters
New ￡1.6 million pilot boat for Falmouth Harbour: full details -?Falmouth Packet
DP World trains from Southampton to London Gateway will cut lorry use -?Daily Echo
Maritime in Westminster
New funding opportunities
Member in focus
Belfast Maritime Consortium
The Belfast Maritime Consortium brings together a wide range of talent from Northern Ireland industry, universities and colleges, and local government.?
Established as a 13-partner syndicate of businesses, academia and local government, it has invested ￡27m alongside government to deliver a net-zero ferries project. The Consortium will be developed into a full maritime cluster organisation.??
About Maritime UK
Maritime UK is the collective voice for the UK's maritime industries. We champion and work to enable a thriving maritime sector.
The maritime industries come together through Maritime UK to make progress on key areas of shared interest.?
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Maritime Commentator
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