Clive Forbes

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Hemispheric Network
of
International Cooperation
of
Women in the Port Community

• Clive Forbes
• General Manager/Executive Director
• Caribbean Shipping Association
• August 20, 2009

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• CSA Shipping Industry Matrix
• Regional Contribution of Women in the
  Maritime Industry Snapshot
• Global Benchmarking
• International Cooperation Proposal
• Reaching Forward

agenda
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SHIPPING INDUSTRY GRID/MATRIX SHIPPING INDUSTRY GRID/MATRIX SHIPPING INDUSTRY GRID/MATRIX SHIPPING INDUSTRY GRID/MATRIX SHIPPING INDUSTRY GRID/MATRIX SHIPPING INDUSTRY GRID/MATRIX SHIPPING INDUSTRY GRID/MATRIX

BUSINESS CHANNELS/VERTICAL MARKETS/SECTORS BUSINESS CHANNELS/VERTICAL MARKETS/SECTORS BUSINESS CHANNELS/VERTICAL MARKETS/SECTORS BUSINESS CHANNELS/VERTICAL MARKETS/SECTORS BUSINESS CHANNELS/VERTICAL MARKETS/SECTORS BUSINESS CHANNELS/VERTICAL MARKETS/SECTORS BUSINESS CHANNELS/VERTICAL MARKETS/SECTORS BUSINESS CHANNELS/VERTICAL MARKETS/SECTORS
PASSENGER CRUISE PASSENGER CRUISE COMMERCIAL CARGO COMMERCIAL CARGO COMMERCIAL CARGO COMMERCIAL CARGO LEISURE/YACHTING LEISURE/YACHTING
PASSENGER CRUISE PASSENGER CRUISE CONTAINER BREAK BULK BULK RO/RO LEISURE/YACHTING LEISURE/YACHTING
BUSINESS DRIVERS SHIPPING LINES (CRUISE CARGO)                
BUSINESS DRIVERS INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATIONS        
BUSINESS DRIVERS NATIONAL PORT AUTHORITIES GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES                
NATIONAL SHIPPING ASSOCIATIONS NATIONAL SHIPPING ASSOCIATIONS NATIONAL SHIPPING ASSOCIATIONS NATIONAL SHIPPING ASSOCIATIONS NATIONAL SHIPPING ASSOCIATIONS NATIONAL SHIPPING ASSOCIATIONS NATIONAL SHIPPING ASSOCIATIONS NATIONAL SHIPPING ASSOCIATIONS
Shipping Lines Owners Agents Container Haulage Stevedoring Companies Contractors Terminal Operators Wharf Companies Ship Management Consultant Maritime Trainers Custom Brokeage, Freight Consolidators Warehousing Tug Operators, Bulk Tramp Services Forklift Hireage Cruise Shipping Agents, Marina Operators, Taxi Operators Shore Excursions
BUSINESS FUNCTIONAL/OPERATIONAL SUPPORT BUSINESS FUNCTIONAL/OPERATIONAL SUPPORT BUSINESS FUNCTIONAL/OPERATIONAL SUPPORT BUSINESS FUNCTIONAL/OPERATIONAL SUPPORT BUSINESS FUNCTIONAL/OPERATIONAL SUPPORT BUSINESS FUNCTIONAL/OPERATIONAL SUPPORT BUSINESS FUNCTIONAL/OPERATIONAL SUPPORT BUSINESS FUNCTIONAL/OPERATIONAL SUPPORT
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Caribbean Region
GULF OF MEXICO
The Bahamas
ATLANTIC OCEAN
Cozumel Cancun
US Virgin Islands British Virgin
Islands Anguilla St. Martin, St. Maarten St.
Barts St. Eustatius St. Kitts
Nevis Barbuda Antigua Montserrat Guadeloupe Domini
ca Martinique St. Lucia Barbados St. Vincent The
Grenadines Grenada Tobago Trinidad
Turks Caicos Islands
Cuba
Haiti
San Juan
Cayman Islands
Puerto Rico
Jamaica
Dominican Republic
Belize
Honduras
CARIBBEAN SEA
Aruba
Curacao
Cartagena
Colon
Venezuela
Panama
Guyana
Columbia
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Regional Women Maritime Contribution

• A holistic view of the regional maritime industry
  shows a diverse amount of women who have and
  continue to make significant contribution to the
  development of the industry.
• Corah-Ann Roberstson-Sylvester Immediate Past
  President of the Caribbean Shipping Association
  (CSA) and CEO of Seaboard Jamaica Limited
• Cynthia Monetarists Pappadoplo - Owner Evergreen
  Agent in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

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Regional Women Maritime Contribution

• Joanne Edwards-Alleyne General Manager Shipping
  Association of Trinidad Tobago (SATT)
• Monica Silvera (deceased) Past Executive
  Director/General Manager of the CSA and in whose
  name the CSA Maritime Scholarship is being
  awarded.
• Rosalie Donaldson Vice President, Port
  Authority of Jamaica

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Regional Women Maritime Contribution

• Erica Luke Owner, Eric Hassell Son (Ship
  Agent), Barbados
• Denise Lyn Fatt Owner, Freight Handlers Limited
  (NVOCC - Ship Agent Managing Committee Member
  of the Shipping Association Jamaica)
• Sonja Voisin-Tom Owner, Gulf Shipping Limited,
  Trinidad (Executive Member of SATT)
• Linda Projift Commercial Director ,Port of
  Paramaribo, Suriname.

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Regional Women Maritime Contribution

• Throughout the region we have women operating in
  key positions within the Port Community as
• Senior Managers within Ports
• Pilots
• Managers Senior Vice Presidents of Port
  Authorities
• Owners and operators of key Businesses within the
  Supply Chain Freight Forwarders, Stevedoring,
  Haulage Contractors etc
• Seafarers
• Straddle Carrier Operators
• Notwithstanding all that has been said thus far
  there is still tremendous growth opportunities
  for women.

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Benchmarks

• Geraldine Knatz, Ph.D., Executive Director. first
  female executive director of the Port of Los
  Angeles
• July 31, 2009 the Board of Directors of the
  Montréal Port Authority has appointed Sylvia
  Vachon to the position of President and CEO.
• Gov. Robert Ehrlich announced that Maryland will
  honor a longtime supporter of the maritime
  industry by renaming its largest hub the Helen
  Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore.

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Benchmarks

• Barbara Yenis. Executive Director, Container
  Intermodal Institute
• Susan Coffey East Coast Regional Sales
  ManagerPort of Tacoma
• Anne Kappel, Vice President, World Shipping
  Council
• Mary Jane Norris. Manager Port Operations
  Services
• And more ....

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Woman of the Year Port of Baltimore
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Proposal for Creating a Hemispheric Network of
International Cooperation of Women in the Port
Community
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If not ....
then WHY NOT?
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Test

• 10 questions
• 10 answers

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Are the Women of the Region ....
?

• Intelligent?
• Strong?
• Have business savvy?
• Responsible?
• Capable?
• Accountable?
• Understand port business?
• CDS Consciencious, Dedicated, Sincere?
• Beautiful ?
• Hold as many managerial positions in business as
  their international counterparts?

But of course
YES! ABSOLUTELY!
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Acceptance - Action

• Fact Carib woman are capable.
• There is no threat to .... .
• These times dictate we need all the talent and
  help we can get.
• Identify the talent.
• Train, Train, and Train.
• Start now!

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Today

• Begin the process
• Form a focus group to Define Vision Mission
• Explore the issues
• Form an Action Committee
• Develop a plan
• Execute
• Measure, Evaluate Revisit the Plan
• Do it again, again, and again
• Do it today!

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Regional Integration The Way Forward

• The Global Crisis has brought to Focus how
  interconnected and interdependent we are.
• There can be no successful International
  Cooperation of Women in the Port Community
  without the appropriate integration of the
  relevant regional hemispheric groupings that
  share a commonality of purposes within the
  maritime industry.

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Regional Integration The Way Forward

• Given our size and scale it is imperative that
  all the agencies in the regional maritime
  industry work together to achieve the necessary
  business development and training for its people.
  

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Regional Integration The Way Forward

• "To promote and foster the highest quality
  service to the maritime industry through business
  and training development working with all
  agencies, groups and other associations for the
  benefit and development of its members and the
  peoples of the Caribbean and Latin American
  region.

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Regional Integration The Way Forward

• Today more than ever CSAs statement and
  commitment rings true, and we stand ready to
  partner with the OAS-CIP and COCATRAM in seeing
  to the effective implementation of a Regional
  Port Community Network of Women.

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Foretelling the future .... and on the 1st
day they created the Caribbean Port Community
Network of Women
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Thank You