The Malta Maritime Forum is pleased to announce the striking of a Partnership Agreement with the Malta Employers’ Association (MEA). The agreement is aimed at granting the MMF wider exposure on the MEA media which are most relevant to the Maritime Community, namely the online MEA Index platform and the popular MEA TV programme. These [...]
The Malta Maritime Forum (MMF) welcomes Minister Ian Borg’s announcement that Cabinet gave the green light for Transport Malta to be de-merged into separate entities for land transport, aviation and maritime affairs. Indeed, the re-establishment of a national entity solely responsible for the maritime industry was amongst the main proposals in a document entitled [...]
The Malta Maritime Forum is delighted to announce that Board Member and indeed one of its Founders, Dr Ann Fenech has been elected for a second term as Vice President of the Comité Maritime International. Dr Fenech was elected by a unanimous decision of the national maritime law associations during a CMI assembly held [...]
The CEO gave a 60-minute interview to Dr Karsten Xuereb, Visiting Lecturer, Research Support Officer, Radio Producer & Presenter on the work and role of the Malta Maritime Forum over Zoom. During the interview, Kevin J Borg faced questions on salient topics on maritime transport and blue economy tourism including the climate change targets [...]
The Malta Maritime Forum wrote to the Education Minister to express surprise at the fact that the maritime industry does not feature in the “I Choose – Nagħżel il-Karriera Tiegħi’” initiative for 2021. This initiative was embarked upon by the Ministry for the purposes of students’ guidance on career and educational options in their latter [...]
In anticipation of the national Budget which is to be presented to Parliament on October 11, the MMF submitted a set of concrete proposals to the Minister of Finance. The MMF deems it crucial for the government to recognize and offer to support for the development of the maritime industry to reflect (i) its [...]
The MMF was present at the launch of the Valletta Grand Harbour Waterfront Strategic Plan on the invitation of the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects, the Hon. Ian Borg. The MMF was represented by its Chairman Judge Emeritus Joseph Zammit McKeon and CEO Kevin J Borg. You can download a copy of [...]
The Malta Maritime Forum is pleased to note that the Civil Court (Commercial Section) is being bolstered in line with recommendations it had made in the public domain last March. In fact, the Forum understands that a judge who is at present hearing lawsuits within the Civil Court (Commercial Section) has also been assigned [...]
A discussion was held between members of the Malta Maritime Forum and Dr Magdalena Adamowicz a member of the European Parliament from the EPP - European People's Party and active member of the EPs Transport and Tourism Committee. The discussion centred around the importance of the Maritime Industry in a European context; the decarbonisation of the [...]
Steen Jakobsen, CIO and Chief Economist of SAXO Bank expressed himself more than optimistic about Malta’s prospects for economic recovery at a business webinar organised by the Malta Maritime Forum and Bank of Valletta on 19 May. The event, targeted at business players in the maritime sector, was attended by well over 100 participants and [...]
