The association of women active in shipping has also just elected its new board of directors

WISTA Italy has a new board of directors, elected by the annual assembly that took place in Naples on the sidelines of the Naples Shipping Week that has just ended. Costanza Musso, Gabriella Reccia, Barbara Pozzolo have been confirmed while the new entries in the board are those of Lucia Nappi and Caterina Cerrini.

All the members are professionals from the world of the sea who carry out their activity in different sectors: Costanza Musso is the managing director of M.A. Grendi since 1828, Gabriella Reccia, lawyer, is general counsel of the Nova Marine group, Barbara Pozzolo is a lawyer and member of the Board of Directors of the Genoa Airport, Lucia Nappi is the director of Corriere Marittimo, Caterina Cerrini deals with international relations and strategic development in Arribatec Marine.

Also nominated are the members of the board of arbitrators who are Katia Corfini, Alberta Frondoni and Anna Izzo.

WISTA, acronym for Women International Shipping and Trading Association, associates more than 3,000 shipping professionals from over 50 countries around the world.

Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA) is an international organization for women in management positions involved in maritime transportation business and related trades worldwide.

WISTA Italy was founded in Genoa on 1994 out of the will of five founding members, all strongly involved within the Italian shipping industry.

WISTA Italy’s mission is to go deeper in the knowledge of the Members’ working activities, and the area of interest in which they work, throughout the exchange of information, idea and contacts that shall enlarge the horizon to all the Shipping Professions.

WISTA Italy also aims to promote the working co-operation between the Members, who are guaranteed to find within the colleagues a prompt and active reply to the request of their own Company. A second, but no less important, target is to support women in entering the Shipping Professional world, namely throughout professional education and qualification.

Education is granted with monthly based seminars, debates and meetings on high relevance themes always connected to the Shipping world.

Source : Shipping Italy