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and print media. Whether it was Radio 4’s Today

Programme or the Share Channel; the Times;

Daily Telegraph; London Evening Standard or

the hundreds of shipping and maritime-related

media throughout the shipping world, London

International Shipping Week’s name rang out

loud and clear.

Over 10,000 articles are estimated to

have been written about LISW15 in the two-

year run up to the event reaching out to an

estimated potential global audience of over

8 million. An impressive 55,000 visitors from

over 100 countries visited the oficial LISW15

website in the 12 months up to the event.

LISW15 also embraced the modern social

media age in style by achieving a Twitter

reach of over 6 million followers, helped by

related tweets from 10 Downing Street, the

DfT and event organisers and delegates from

the 100+ events held throughout the week.

Thousands of Facebook ‘likes’ also competed

for prominence alongside Google +, Instagram,

Flickr and LinkedIn.

“ It was a delight to be a part of the second LISW, even bigger

and better than the irst. The UK is the world’s premier maritime

business centre, so it is appropriate that the global maritime

community gathered here to share knowledge and enjoy the

company of colleagues, cementing existing relationships and

facilitating new business possibilities”

Doug Barrow,
Chief Executive, Maritime London

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