We are at present collecting the membership fee for 1998, (once again, the treasurer has asked me to point out that not everyone is as yet a fully paid-up member, and she would be grateful if you would rectify this situation as soon as possible) cheques for £ 12.00 should be payable to WISTA and sent to Jane Atkinson (Please find her address listed below).

This section will be dedicated to news, gossips, tips & scandals on the maritime world.
In our first newsletter we told you about the WISTA-NIGERIA. Well, let me tell you that last October, we received a visit from our Nigerian member.
Funke Agbor, a lawyer, and head of shipping at her legal firm "ACA" in Lagos, who confirmed our news that the women in shipping in her country have formed the WISTA-NIGERIA. They are very interested to hear from us and they receive our weekly e-mail of news and humour.

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On our previous Newsletter we informed that, we had a cyberplace. That "address" was on loan by Maria Dixon, but since last September we have our OWN domain :

The site has grown substiantially since then, the page is always being updated. If you have any material that you would like to have published or to give your comments, or if your company has a Web page that we could mutually link to, please contact us.

E-Mail Directory

If you have an E-mail address, could you let us have it?. This is important as we are organising an e-mail directory for us in the UK to be forwarded to WISTA INTERNATIONAL.

We have a small e-mail network, and every week we received an e-mail newsletter prepared by Maria Dixon with news and the most unthinkable jokes you can imagine. The e-mail network is growing constantly and raises a few smiles for those Monday's Blues!, therefore, please hurry up!....send your information about your Webpages and your E-mail address to Maria Dixon, her e-mail is maria@wista.org .

The WISTA INTERNATIONAL Board met in September. London as place for the 1999 Conference was ratified, also there were talks about possible locations for the annual Conferences:
1998 - New York (confirmed)
1999 - London (confirmed)
2000 - Sweden
2001 - Singapore
2002 - Turkey