摘要
在非常看重性别差异的航运业，任命一位女士来领导马士基公司油轮业务，这是业界在最近一段时间里为数不多的几个好消息之一。
We need to address outdated ideas and search for new solutions to survive the present 'financial fires'.Some gender diversity at the top end of shipping — through the appointment of a woman to head up Maersk Tankers — is one of the few bits of good news to hit the maritime industry in recent weeks.Hanne Sorensen upset some industry watchers by coming up with a stream of questions that she would ask herself in the new job.Critics wanted answers but I would say people with strong preconceptions have helped drive us into the present maritime and economic trouble.We need new ways of thinking to get us out of it.But the good news from Maersk is like the proverbial snowflake in Hades:it evaporates in the financial fires burning up the industry elsewhere.Clarkson's Research Services(CRS) figures show that owners worldwide are recording the worst revenues for 22 years.And the Baltic Exchange recently recorded that Clipper Bulk relet a vessel for a voyage to the US for a 'zero' freight rate.In fact,owners are not only backloading their ships into the right place for nothing:on occasion they are paying charterers for the privilege.And as my colleagues noted last week,owners of around 50 capesize bulkers are said to be holding them back from the market due to low rates.Some find CRS's cautious approach to predicting the future frustrating but no one can criticise maritime economist Martin Stopford's meticulous mapping of the past.Nor his humour.
出处
《中国远洋航务》
2012年第3期56-56,11,共1页
China Ocean Shipping Monthly
