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Welcome to Mariner Communications. Mariner Communications was founded in 2009 by Neville Smith, to provide a bespoke solution to public relations and media communications for the maritime industry.
Client locations range from the United States, the UK, Norway, and mainland Europe, the Middle East, India, Singapore, and China, with clients that include industry associations and bodies that support seafarers and shipping professionals worldwide.
The Mariner Communications philosophy is founded on listening to client needs and putting in place a communications programme that exceeds those expectations. We believe that our clients know their business best and that we can help them most effectively by developing managing and protecting their reputations with the media.
Using both new media and traditional channels, Mariner Communications creates opportunities with the maritime press that put our clients’ interests in front of the right audience every time.
Unpopular Christmas (OK New Year) ideas #1 There’s too much reality and not enough fantasy in European political and economic policy. I’ve lately been enjoying David Runciman’s Past, Present and Future podcast and in particular the History of Bad Ideas series. If you haven’t listened, I highly recommend it. I’m borrowing this idea to suggest…
Last week it was questions about methanol, this week it’s the safety of ammonia. The arguments against hydrogen are well rehearsed; LNG needs to fix its supply chain emissions. What’s next one wonders, the downsides of wind-assisted propulsion? Given the shipping industry’s inbuilt scepticism towards anything that can’t be remedied with some blokes (yes they…
The catalyst for the opening conversation of London International Shipping Week was the ‘game-changing’ IMO MEPC 80 meeting which set (admittedly loose) targets for decarbonisation with equally non-specific way markers. Generously viewed as a multi-lateral compromise there is nonetheless guarded optimism that the results provide clear enough direction to reinforce the sustainability business case for enough stakeholders in…
There is no contest for shipping’s word of the year, it’s collaboration by a nautical mile. Every event, panel, conference and white paper calls collaboration vital for decarbonisation and the enabler of digitalisation. The topic was front and centre at the Smart Maritime Network Copenhagen Conference where a panel chaired by Grant Hunter at BIMCO quizzed…
It has been described as a game changer that will reshape the business landscape, becoming a driving force behind investment decisions, with impact felt in ways that will touch not just financial institutions but also their interactions with clients and suppliers, their distribution models and human resources policies. No, it’s not the carbon intensity indicator…
Rather than disappearing, #seafarers will become even more important to the business of safely operating and navigating ships during the #energytransition of coming decades. The challenge for policymakers and regulators is stark: is it better to try and revise the four pillars of maritime regulations or provide much more training to close the gaps? Two recent studies, one by DNV…
