Maritime consultant and experts, Roland Lloyds Agencies Limited is pushing to close the gender gap and increase the presence and relevance of women in the maritime industry.
They believe that there are a lot of roles that women can play in helping the industry unleash its potentials and contribute more to the economy.
Roland Lloyd’s Agencies Limited is a multi-disciplined, independent company providing marine/air cargo superintending, cargo surveying, and calibration surveying of tankers, loss recoveries/claims investigations, consultancy and expert witness services.
To achieve this objective, Roland Lloyd’s commemorated the 2019 World Maritime Day in Lagos with high profile conversation around women empowerment and job opportunities for ladies in the maritime business.
Roland Emorwodia, executive director, Roland Lloyds Agencies Ltd said that statistics all over the world show that maritime is a male dominated industry, like the ICT.
Emorwodia said what his agency want to achieve with this programme, is to bring awareness that there is a sector called maritime, where we have as low as 3 percent women.
So, what we have done with this programme is to bring to limelight that women can be sea farers, maritime consultants and surveyors, he said.
World Maritime Day is an international Day observed by the United Nations, and set aside for various maritime stakeholders and individuals in the society towards providing opportunities to raise awareness on topical issues in the maritime industry.
The theme of the campaign for 2019 is “Empowering Women in the Maritime Community”. This provides an opportunity to raise awareness on the importance of gender equality, in line with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 5) and highlight the important – yet under-utilized – contribution of women within the maritime sector.
In attendance were students of Epsilon College, Omojowo Programming Academy, individuals from various spheres of life, stakeholders and dignitaries in the society.
It was also an opportunity for Roland Lloyds to specially recognize and award some notable individuals who have contributed to growth of the industry – Lola Akande, honourable commissioner for Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives, Lagos State, who was honoured with most distinguished public service personality of the Year 2019; Funmi Folorunsho, secretary general, African Shipowners Association, who got industry champion of the Year 2019; Funmi Braithwaite, inspirational leader award and Chisa Uba, partner, Adepetun, Caxton-Martins, Agbor & Segun – most outstanding Legal Luminary of the Year 2019.
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