Category: WISTA
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Marine Log’s Top Women in Maritime 2025: The full interviews
Marine Log’s Top Women in Maritime 2025: The full interviews As the maritime industry continues to expand, innovate, and welcome a more diverse workforce, we’re proud to present our 2025 list of Top Women in Maritime—now in its sixth year of celebrating the leaders shaping the future of our industry. This year’s honorees represent a…
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Rear Adm. Zeita Merchant to keynote Marine Log’s Top Women in Maritime Celebration
Rear Adm. Zeita Merchant to keynote Marine Log’s Top Women in Maritime Celebration Rear Adm. Zeita Merchant of the U.S. Coast Guard will deliver the keynote address at Marine Log’s Top Women in Maritime Celebration on December 2 at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans. The event, now in its second year as an…
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Oldendorff marks milestone: 125 women sailing onboard its ships
Oldendorff marks milestone: 125 women sailing onboard its ships The recently released Women in Maritime Survey 2024, jointly published by IMO and the Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA), showed that, at sea, women remain vastly underrepresented, accounting for just 1% of the total number of seafarers employed. With a worldwide shortage of seafarers,…
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Op-Ed: Breaking barriers on the evolving role of women at sea
Op-Ed: Breaking barriers on the evolving role of women at sea By Julia Anastasiou, Crew Management Officer, OSM Thome NOTE: Saturday, March 8, is International Women’s Day. Thirty years ago, when I began my career in the maritime industry, women at sea were a rarity. The challenges were formidable—lack of representation, limited career pathways, and…