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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
July 22nd, 2020: The NOXX HYD™ Antifouling System is manufactured by EMCS Industries Ltd. In 2016 EMCS purchased Hull Tender International Inc, a company based in Vancouver, BC. The original invention was known as the Hydrosonic Hull Tender Antifouling System…
I'm sure as much as we would all like to forget 2020, we never will. Nobody was prepared for 2020, but I am sure many of us have been forced to be at our most creative and had our leadership…