Customary municipal marinas are under threat

Most French marinas have been completed from the sixties to the nineties, often with public investments, to foster regional coastal planning and respond to the rising boating practice. The mayors of coastal towns wanted at all costs to have their own marina to show their pride, stimulate attractiveness, and offer berthing infrastructures to local inhabitants. […]
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Ensuring quality service throughout the value chain: the challenge of Breton Marinas!

*This article has been originally published in French, to address the marina operators in Brittany, France.   During a speech at the Nautik Deiz conference organized by the Brittany region last October, I introduced the different modes of management of marinas on an international scale, briefly sketching the panorama of their particularities, pros and cons, […]
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In the marina industry, data are the seeds of action

Monitoring, recording, tracking. Then processing, data analyzing, even driving artificial intelligence… The more information we collect, the more efficient we can be! Not so long ago, the marina industry was still in the Middle Ages and many marina operators were using a marina management software application like a simple spreadsheet. To list the boat names […]
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Online Now: EXPORT INSIGHTS online seminar series developed by MIN and GMBA

MIN Export Sessions: The third online seminar collaboration between Marine Industry News, Global Marine Business Advisors (GMBA) and PSP Logistics is now available to view. In this comprehensive session, Mr Kai Malmivaara (GMBA) takes a look at the United Arab Emirates marine market and offers insights for those wishing to explore the opportunities offered by exporting to the UAE. Malmivaara […]
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Find your way in Marina certification: Everybody knows but no one is aware of! | Jean-Michel Gaigné, CMM GMBA-France

It is sometimes difficult to discern the exact meaning of a certification. Marinas proudly display their awards on their website and billboards, but there are so many recognition signs that we can easily get lost… Whatever the certification, there are always two levels of interpretation to motivate the applicant. The first one comes with the […]
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Export Seminar Series Kicks Off With a Bang!

Marine Industry News is  running a series of online seminars, in conjunction with Global Marine Business Advisors (GMBA), entitled Export Insights. The first Export Insights seminar, sponsored by PSP Logistics, focused on France. The one hour free seminar was hosted on April 20th and the responses to the event have been very positive. Jean-Michel Gaigné, who […]
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