Drum Cussac were one of our headline sponsors at the Duty of Care Conference that was held in February in London. Please see below for their blog and photos from the day
Duty of Care Conference 2016
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Media Coverage – Sustainability in the Marine Industry Conference
Last year’s Yachting Recycling Conference held alongside METSTRADE and this year’s upcoming Marine Sustainability generated significant amounts of press attention from around the world.
Quaynote Palma Superyacht Conference 2016 Programme
Quaynote Communications and YachtMedia are proud to unveil the Quaynote Palma Superyacht Conference 2016 program. Specifically structured for the boasting industry professionals staged in Palma de Mallorca, the event will again feature two days of presentations, debate and interactive panel discussions, followed by a golf & networking day at the weekend.
You can read more about this in the following article from CHARTERWORLD.COM
Quaynote Communications and Jeanius Consulting form key strategic partnership
A transatlantic agreement signed today will see two well-known maritime companies deliver PR, media & conference services to the international superyacht sector.
Quaynote Communications, a maritime & aviation conference specialist and Jeanius Consulting, a maritime PR & marketing consultancy, have joined together to offer the superyacht sector access to their shared pool of expertise. The partnership, aims to assist both public and private sector companies achieve long-term strategic goals through the innovative use of PR & media alongside exciting industry specific events.
Lorna Titley, Managing Director, Quaynote Communications said: “This collaboration will greatly assist companies working in the ever growing superyacht sector to encompass PR and media services in addition to participating in the many events run in this sector. We see a growing demand for media services in the superyacht sector so it was a natural choice to complement our events expertise with the PR experience and reputation of Jeanius. ”
Jean Winfield, Managing Director, Jeanius Consulting added: “I am delighted to be working with Quaynote and this partnership offers a unique combination of services to the superyacht sector. Together we will be able to offer clients not only bespoke PR & media services but access to our extensive industry network allowing yachting sector companies to gain great exposure internationally.”
The two agencies working internationally, have previously worked with some of the world’s leading organisations and companies; Jeanius with clients in Europe, UAE, Far East & USA and Quaynote holding events in the UK, Europe and the Caribbean.
ECDIS Implementation Needs More Work
The tone was set by Futurenautics editor, Kate Adamson, who talked about the future of shipping leading to autonomous shipping. The navigational aspects of this movement were of interest to the audience, but she also highlighted economic aspects, as autonomous ships may save 40% on operations and potentially change the business model of shipbuilding and operations. This impressive glimpse into the future was followed by a contribution by Mark Nicholson of the University of York on organisational aspects of the monitoring navigator – especially the application security of it. Eric Styhr Peterson continued on this track, digging into aspects of the human-centredness of e-navigation systems.
Peter Blackhurst of INMARSAT presented the developments from the communications and data transmission perspective. This is a challenge, especially when looking at updates and the technical possibilities of arranging automatic updates.
John Klippen spent some time on the interests of stakeholders with their respective links. The day continued quite technically, with Nick Lemon of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority discussing the data and system architecture on board and a presentation by Capt. Sriram Rajagopal on implementation aspects. Training aspects are important, as Harry Gale of the Nautical Institute emphasised.
The Mona Lisa Project is a frontrunner in new developments in the ECDIS and e-navigation world, and Mikael Hagg gave an insight into the status achieved. One aspect – the options to sail and update usingECDIS and ENCs – was further elaborated upon by Tor A. Svanes of NAVTOR.
Day 2 of the conference was more hands-on regarding the presentations, with Bob Cockshott of the Knowledge Transfer Network explaining how vulnerable GNSS reception may be, especially in relation to the possibilities of jamming it, either intentionally or using a device. Dr Andy Norris dug deeper into this matter.
Charting aspects then came into play during the presentation by Roger Barker of Trinity House. There are new risks that are charted and he showed examples of wind farms and the Varne Bank on ECDISsystems and how mariners navigate in reality. William Heaps took the hydrographic perspective by taking the audience into a practical harbour situation where bigger ships have to manoeuvre. He made everyone aware of the surveying, charting and navigational aspects related to this, as well as the organisations that contribute from the start of a survey to the final docking of a vessel. Continuing with this practical aspect, Tom Mellor of the UKHO gave a presentation about the updating and revision of ECDIS systems and the challenges that this entails.
After these contributions, the delegates spent time in round-table discussions which were evaluated into conclusions.
Delegates to the conference also agreed to form a Special Interest group on e-Navigation, which would be hosted by IMarEST. They were supportive of this concept, as this could reinforce the road towards further implementation and development of the technology
