We Are Not Blue This Monday
Today is the day! It is officially the most depressing day of the year (I bet you are glad to hear that)! It is Blue Monday! Blue Monday falls on the third Monday of January, and as the theory goes…
Remove the Need for A Drydock!
MARELCO™ can eliminate your drydock altogether! If you are the owner of a fleet of vessels, you are fully aware of the need for your vessel to undergo one or two scheduled drydocks every five years, depending on the vessel's…
Providing Antifouling and Anticorrosion Solutions To Two of The Largest Ferry Companies in North America
Did you know that the global ferry industry is similar in size to the commercial airline industry? They transport approximately 2.1 billion passengers per year, plus 250 million vehicles and 32 million trailers! Those are some astounding numbers! But, if…
PROUD AND THANKFUL TO BE A CANADIAN
I will always be extremely grateful to my parents for my very first overseas trip, which was to Canada in 1973. Canada was always a big part of my life. My uncle left South Africa at 18 to join the…
Trust Is Not a Trend
Yesterday I heard that rather than solutions selling, there is a new ‘thing’ called insights selling. The best description I could find for this piece of wisdom was, “The key to insights selling is to leverage a deep understanding of…
THE EVOLUTION & STABILITY CREATED BY DEFINING GOALS
In 2015 when I took over the reins at EMCS Industries we learned very quickly that the antifouling anticorrosion industry was very much a necessity to the marine industry but was missing the mark in really understanding the customer needs…
EMCS INDUSTRIES LTD BRAND AUDIT ENACTS REAL CHANGE
In last month's blog, I discussed the pandemic nightmare we have all been through over the previous 12 months and the lessons we learned. One of the big take aways was that we had been sadly comfortable in complacency. This…
PANDEMIC NIGHTMARE HAS A SILVER LINING
I’m sure at some level we can all agree that we were ‘comfortable in complacency’ up until the end of 2019. A lesson learned, so never again, because wow that hurt! At the beginning of 2020 I was on vacation…
EMCS ANNOUNCES NEW TECHNICAL BASE IN SINGAPORE TO AID CRUISE INDUSTRY RECOVERY.
October 12th, 2020: To move quickly with the incredibly fluid situation around the dry docking of vessels for critical maintenance post-COVID-19, EMCS Industries is offering their customers a convenient alternative in Singapore with locally-based technicians. With many cruise ships choosing…
BUSINESS CAN BE THE COVID-19 PROBLEM SOLVER FOR SCHOOLS
This article is an attempt to present solutions to stopping the spread of COVID-19, instead of complaining and waiting for others to solve the approach to the pandemic. Businesses don’t have a choice but to solve it, businesses have to…