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ADAPTING TO CHANGE
QUENTON BRINK FORMER HARBOUR MASTER: PORT OF SALDANHA
"Women pay a ention to the finer details and think out the box."
W hat stands out for him most is the growing number of women in the maritime industry in key roles such as tug masters, marine pilots and harbour masters.
As one of the older harbour masters in the port system, Quenton Brink, who has been in the marine industry for 32 years, 23 of them with TNPA, witnessed the rapid pace of change during his tenure.
He ascribes the success of TNPA’s women in marine operations to the stringent selection criteria that TNPA uses.
As he was leaving TNPA to take up a position as a marine advisor at the Port of Palma, in northern Mozambique, he said a memory he would take with him was ‘seeing the faces of the women in this room (at the Harbour Masters Forum), many of whom I have trained, and where they are now.’
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