UAE Maritime Week is to return with in-person event during EXPO 2020 seatrade-maritime.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from seatrade-maritime.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Tony Nash, Derek Dickins and Themis Vokos taken in the very early days of Seatrade A look back over the half-century history of Seatrade and this its flagship magazine, first launched by company founder Themis Vokos 50 years ago.
The vision of Seatrade founder Themistocles Vokos was to create a news medium that would focus on the business of maritime transport, appealing as much to the owners of cargo and the financial and trading communities as to traditional shipping – an ‘Economist’ for the sea transportation industry.
At a time when ideas about the globalisation of trade were starting to be recognised, the new magazine was intended to cover the patterns of global seaborne trade, as much as the operational and technical sides of the industry. Seatrade’s first editor Robert Hawkins was hired from the Financial Times and a network of correspondents was set up covering Australia, South America and the Middle East, as well as the more established shipping centres in
Seatrade Maritime puts spotlight on supply chain, seafarers issues
DUBAI, December 18, 2020 Seatrade Maritime Middle East Virtual 2020 (SMMEV), the region’s leading event in the shipping industry, concluded on a successful note with two sessions featuring a panel of experts from the maritime industry in the Middle East region. The three-day event, which kicked off on December 14, provided an ideal platform for knowledge sharing and networking, uniting professionals from the industry globally and highlighted the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the logistics ecosystem and professionals who are part of the industry. The concluding day featured sessions on building a resilient supply chain and adapting to the new normal , while also tackling the fundamental issue of the physical and mental wellbeing of seafarers.
December 17, 2020
Seatrade Maritime Middle East Virtual 2020 concluded with discussions on lessons learnt during the pandemic
Dr. Noura Al Dhaheri, Head of the Digital Cluster, Abu Dhabi Ports and CEO, Maqta Gateway
Chris Hayman, Chairman, Seatrade
DUBAI Seatrade Maritime Middle East Virtual 2020 (SMMEV), the region’s leading event in the shipping industry, concluded Wednesday, with two sessions featuring a panel of experts from the maritime industry in the Middle East region. The three-day event provided an ideal platform for knowledge sharing and networking, uniting professionals from the industry globally.
Day three of the event featured sessions on building a resilient supply chain and adapting to the “new normal”, while also tackling the fundamental issue of the physical and mental wellbeing of seafarers. Panelists spoke about the Middle East maritime cluster s contribution to support the global supply chain and the role of technology in enabling