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Jeremy Sutton

Painter

Oct 22, 2026

17:11
Is this all genders, you know, this issue? I mean, I'm just wondering what you're seeing in terms of reporting, if you know yet.
17:19
Well, I think this is probably another factor where we think unspoken is very useful in that we, to your point, Julia, we genuinely think about harassment when we're talking about introducing a new gender on board the ships.
17:33
But I suspect many of these cases have probably been in place and in play for many years in a very male-dominated society as well.
17:41
So I assume a lot of those learnings are probably applicable regardless of gender.
17:45
But if I can maybe share a...
17:48
So as we move talking specifically about gender, some of the areas that we as a shipping company have found it kind of very useful working with the All Abroad Alliance.
18:00
Back to your point before your question around how do shipping companies benefit from dealing with NGOs and so forth, is really this cross-learning and challenging our way of thinking.
19:48
Say in five years or 10 years, what's your ambition for seeing some of this work through and actually impacting?
17:11
Is this all genders, you know, this issue? I mean, I'm just wondering what you're seeing in terms of reporting, if you know yet.
17:19
Well, I think this is probably another factor where we think unspoken is very useful in that we, to your point, Julia, we genuinely think about harassment when we're talking about introducing a new gender on board the ships.
17:33
But I suspect many of these cases have probably been in place and in play for many years in a very male-dominated society as well.
17:41
So I assume a lot of those learnings are probably applicable regardless of gender.
17:45
But if I can maybe share a...
17:48
So as we move talking specifically about gender, some of the areas that we as a shipping company have found it kind of very useful working with the All Abroad Alliance.
18:00
Back to your point before your question around how do shipping companies benefit from dealing with NGOs and so forth, is really this cross-learning and challenging our way of thinking.
19:48
Say in five years or 10 years, what's your ambition for seeing some of this work through and actually impacting?
16:19
Now, Jeremy, do you have any practical examples of how you implement these strategic goals in your fleet? I can give an example
16:27
of this is specifically around gender.
16:30
When we first started a couple of years ago, we worked very closely with GMF, the All Aboard Alliance, to join one of their programs specifically focused on improving the percentage of female seafarers.
16:42
And before joining that program, we were very much of a view that the best way for us to encourage female seafarers was to have a buddy system on board our ship and have that across as many ships as possible.
16:54
And that would be a way to build a safe system and welcome new female seafarers on board.
17:00
The All Aboard Alliance encouraged us to think very differently about that and ran a very successful pilot program which promoted the opposite.
17:11
So having a far greater number of females, up to nearly 50% on one of our vessels.
19:49
But if I am, for example, a smaller shipowner, where do I start? What does good look like, Jeremy?

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