The incoming Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects addressed the MMF-WestMed conference on Blue Skills held to coincide with European Maritime Day. In a brief welcome address, the Hon Dr. Aaron Farrugia declared that his main focus as the new Minister over the coming months was to see through multi-million euro investments into a [...]
Former European Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Perit Karmenu Vella addressed the MMF-Westmed event on 12 May outlining the long list of free services provided by the oceans. "It is a main source of food, energy, minerals, and oxygen; it transports 90% of global trade; it regulates our climate; it hosts the biggest [...]
The CEO addressed the MEA, SME Conference entitled “SMEs and Green Growth – The Journey Ahead”, where he spoke about the potential for technology in enhancing the progress towards carbon-neutrality in the Maritime Industry. The MMF’s intervention was framed in the context of the maritime industry being already the most energy efficient mode of transport [...]
The CEO participated in the Annual Meeting of the European Network of Maritime Clusters (ENMC) held in hybrid mode on 27th October. Representatives from corresponding network clusters in the EU and EEA also participated to discuss the current challenges facing the maritime communities in the respective regions as well as to discuss the finances of [...]
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 [...]
