Stop charging tankers more for everything
Maritime response organisations often charge tankers a premium, but whatever justification there may be for hiking the prices for some response services (e.g. oil spill response), tankers should not be charged an inflated rate for media response.
White Paper: Nigerian Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea 2018 H1 Review
We respond to numerous pirate attacks on our clients’ vessels every year. Media management for such cases requires close collaboration between all the organizations mobilized to support the shipping company and the seafarers on board.
5 steps to crisis communications quality control
When you activate your crisis communications and media management systems, they need to work immediately. But how do you ensure your crisis comms system will work when it matters most?
When digital lets us down
We could ask ourselves how we got so far without digital, how we navigated before AIS, mobile connectivity and gadgets. The latest shiny things fill the vacuum where other pursuits once played and ran wild.
Navigate Response welcomes Nigerian and Italian partners to crisis communications network
Navigate Response welcomes two new partners to its global crisis communications network to strengthen coverage in the key maritime hotspots of West Africa and the Mediterranean.
What does a crisis cost?
Crisis communications sceptics sometimes point out that many companies have survived major crises, including devastating assaults on their reputations, and have come back to be highly profitable and successful – usually without the senior management still in their senior roles (take note CEOs).
5 Crisis communications lessons from Facebook’s data failure
Since the recent revelations that Cambridge Analytica (a British political consulting firm) obtained data from 50 million Facebook users back in 2014, Facebook has been under attack in the media, the halls of power and on financial trading floors, and there are some key crisis management lessons we can learn from their response.
The first draft of history – or the flat spin of a story breaking
The news-cycle, once traditionally hour-on-hour, is now minute-by-minute for most of us with a smartphone – the news agency in our pocket.
Fitness app data shows locations of vessels and offshore platforms
At the end of 2017, Strava, a mobile app used to track athletic activity, released a global heatmap showing the “anonymised” movement patterns of all app users who do not select the option to keep their data private. Among these app users are seafarers and people working on offshore platforms who likely do not realise how publicly they are sharing their location.
Crisis Communications Workshop and Media Training with VDR
The German Shipowners’ Association (VDR) invites you to join Navigate Response for a crisis communications workshop