Nor-Shipping 2025 - catching up with old friends, making lots of new connections and absorbing insightful knowledge, amongst others ;) #getpropelled

Exciting cooperation with @radio.holland for International Women’s Day. Yesterday we delivered a keynote (online) on diversity, equity & inclusion for a truly #SustainableMaritimeFuture, with employees joining from all over the world!!! What an #awesome experience this was. And we’ll do it again on this Friday!

Don’t miss the boat! This is the quite literal call to action of Circular Maritime Technologies (CMT). These pioneers of clean and safe ship dismanting have just taken a huge step towards making high quality reuse of ship components ánd steel (in the Netherlands) possible!

Last week we had the honor to join a.o. @keesvanderstaaij and @arneweverling for a very exciting demo. Striking a balance between force, speed and material this special wire cutting technology is going to enable CMT to cut up serious ships in only 5 days in the future.

Next step after this important validation: an operational yard in 2025 producing clean steel scrap from 50 ships a year. And after that scaling up to a full-size yard able to handle larger ships (Panamax), creating an important influx for the production of green steel locally and more importantly realizing a 1.7 million ton co2 reduction annually.

Beautiful example of facing our responsibilities whilst creating new business opportunities! We’re particularly excited about the fact that this has been realized with Dutch players willing to stick their necks out. Congratulations CMT, @huismanequipment and @enviu

Now let’s make sure NL/Europe doesn’t miss this boat, because if we want to continue building strategic ships, we need to think strategically about our materials as well!

#shipdismantling #circularopportunities #entrepreneurship #nogutsnohollandsglorie #sustainablemaritimefuture

No maritime sector without the #humanfactor! It is crucial that we leverage the potential of underrepresented groups in our sector, from both a labour perspective as well as from an innovation and #sustainablemaritimefuture angle!

Earlier this week Marjolein debated on Human Capital Trends & Imperatives alongside Margaret Akello, Renze Boersema, Joost Bout, Zhongyi (John) Su, Mare Straetmans, Marc Buijs and Thijs Slavenburg at the 23rd Mare Forum.

She argued we cannot afford to exclude half of the worlds’ population (we’re not ‘just’ talking women here, as half of the worlds population is also under 30…). And urged everyone to fill out the International Maritime Organization & WISTA International Women in Maritime Survey 2024. Cause if we can’t measure it, we can’t change it!

Congratulations to the #MAG24 winners: Royal Bodewes & VPRO Tegenlicht, Holland Shipyards Group, Seaqualize, Fanny Ebiffé and Bas van Berkel! What a night celebrating the Dutch maritime innovation power at #MAG24!

Very happy also to see more diversity amongst the attendees, and with that a better reflection of our #innovationpower!

Last years’ call to action by Rob Verkerk, amongst others, was clear. It could (and should be if you ask us) a lot more diverse! We couldn’t agree more, so naturally we committed to filling two WISTA The Netherlands tables! As you can tell there were a lot more #WISTA members present at the other tables. And we will continue that upward trend as far as we are concerned 🚀

Thank you for joining us Babette van Schriek, Aleyda Ortega, Naomi Blomsteel, Dubravka Zaja, Kim van Dijk - Korteweg, Selin Ogis LL.M., Dewi Wesselman, Dimitra Damala, Daniëlle Keijzer, Corine Franken, Sabrina Etzdorf, Josefien Almekinders, Irene ‘t Hart-Palatresi, Antoinette Stegmeijer, Eileen Berntsson, Marjolein van Gennip and Anja Franz. And thank you for the Schuttevaer headline and great picture René Quist (could not tag any more ladies due to taglimit)! Photo copyright Schuttevaer/Frank de Roo & Rebekka Mell

#maritimeinnovation #sustainablemaritimefuture #dutchmaritimesector #makingithappen

#getpropelled, literally!!

Not the way we prefer to see ships, yet exploring the 1980 #Zenobia wreck was mindblowing! Amazing to dive into the beautiful underwaterworld of Cyprus, at the crossing of 3 continents and thus important tradelanes (explaining the many wrecks).

And right before we ‘dive’ into the content of the #WISTA2024 conference where we gather with maritime women from all over the world in key positions, discussing a #sustainablemaritimefuture along with the role women play to accelerate that transition 🙌 Curious? Reach out or check out @wistainternational International

#wista24 #wistainternational
#wistacyprus #womenwhomovetheworld

Special thanks to TD Diving and for the record: text on propeller was already there!