maritime, logistics,
ports and Supply Chain expert
various speaking engagements
including with Boris Johnson
launching Maritime
Careers programme
Media interview and speaking requests
Speaking out – television, radio
Our MD Sue Terpilowski FCILT, OBE regularly appears on TV, radio and in the press talking about a number of key issues for the maritime, ports and logistics sectors, about exporting and importing as well as issues facing Micro and small businesses in the UK.
Sue started Image Line Communications more than 36 years ago and it has become one of the leading specialist PR, marketing and visual event agencies in the logistics, freight, ports, material handling and supply chain sectors. Sue is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT).
Sue standing within her business sector is such that she is the Chair of CILT’s Public Policy Committee and the Vice-Chair of their Ports, Maritime and Waterways Sector Group. She regularly chairs sessions and acts as a facilitator for CILT on sector related issues including Geo Political situations, Green Corridors, Freeports, Brexit, SOLAS, CTU Code, M2M/Autonomous/Automation, portcentric and port trends.
Sue standing within maritime and shipping sectors is such that she is the Co Chair of Maritime UK’s Diversity Group and also the Chair of their Women’s Task Group driving forward real change in diversity within the sectors and also President of WISTA UK (Women in Shipping and Trade).
Sue is also a member of Women in Logistics and Women in Transport groups.
Sue is a member of the steering committee of the London Freight Forum (TfL group) and is one of the forum chairs and advisor on associated freight matters, bringing together TfL and the freight sector.
Sue regularly is a chair, speaker and facilitator at maritime and logistics conferences and seminars around the world including Westminster Business, Digital Ship, Shipping 2030, Global Shipping Forum, Intermodal, Multimodal and Waterfront Ports Conferences.
Outside of the maritime transport and logistics world, Sue was until this year the FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) London policy chairman and was regularly interviewed and quoted in the business press radio and television as an expert source on a wide range of issues affecting the self-employed, micro and small businesses. She also appeared on BBC television in the final of the Apprentice 2015 as part of the interview panel making the choices of winning contestants.
Sue has a diploma in Business Coaching and is one of only 200 LAB Profilers (Language & Behaviour) in the UK. and is a FCIM (fellow Chartered Institute of Marketing).
Sue was awarded the OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2014 for her work and lobbying on behalf of micro and small businesses in London.
Available for:
Chairing conferences, seminar, roundtables and events
Keynote speaker
Panelist
Interviews
Facilitator
I think everybody will join me in thanking Sue for a brilliant job moderating the session and going above and beyond in the lead up!
2024
17 July WISTA UK – conference session one chair on maritime media and press
20 June Crew Welfare Week panel recording
3 June BBC Scotland interview on the current situation in the Red Sea
27 May Interview with BBC World Service
16 May Women in Transport The Gender Pay
14 May WISTA & Trinity House Women in Maritime Day debate chair
8 May Breakbulk Advisory Meeting
18 March Rail Unites for Inclusion conference
14 March PA Consulting panel debate
11 March Women in Transport Equity Index Report launch
5 February APPG Maritime meeting
10 January Breakbulk Advisory Meeting
2023
16-17 December on BBC Radio and TV about the situation in the Suez Canal on BBC news at 11.10
8 December on World at One as BBC Expert on Panama Canal drought
5 December lead session on the Women in Transport Equity Index
29 November introduced speakers at the WISTA UK Black Tie Fund Raising Dinner
18 October ACI HR & Crew Management Conference
11 October – Intermodal Europe
I also had the privilege of presenting with Dr Kate Pike and participating in a panel discussion on Equity in Maritime at the ACI Maritime HR & Crew Management Summit in London. During this session, we had the opportunity to showcase our Enhanced participation of women in European shipping Reports and marketing materials and highlight key findings from the Women In Transport Equity Index 2023.
15 September – Women In Summit, part of LISW 2023, with Sonya Byers, presented the early findings from the Women in Transport Equity Index and chaired the event.
18 May – Maritime UK Womens’ Network, OCIMF, Trinity House, WISTA UK, chairing panel discussion for IMO International Women’s Day
5 May – Today programme BBC Radio 4 interview on shipping about the results from the Maersk shipping line falling and the trends for 2023. You will find it at 20.15 (the interview was 6.15 am). https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ljt3
8 March Panelist Women in Transport
8 March LinkedIn Live chaired a 7 panel discussion for International Women’s Day.
2022
14 December Careers4Sea panel online
30 November WESS Conference in Brussels, Sue and Dr Kate Pike launched their Women in Maritime report and marketing support materials to attract more women into the sector
3 November panellist for the British Retail Consortium
22 October WISTA International – speaker launching the maritime speakers’ new website
7 April Women in Logistics (Poland) speaker and panellist
6 April WISTA UK masterclass on Personal PR
4 April Speaker with Monica Kohli on IMO Women’s Day 18 May the Maritime Joint Informal Meeting on an invite by the Honourable Company of Master Mariners
10 March Container Terminal Automation Conference London in person – Panel discussion with Q&A Resiliency: How the industry can prepare for fluctuating demand
8 March – Transport’s Gender Challenge and Future of the Industry – All Party Group for Women in Transport IWD 2022 Roundtable
8 Feb – Intermodal Freight Forum Europe: How intermodal freight transporation can lead the supply chain’s green mission – Sue chaired the panel session
27 January – CILT/DfT Roundtable: Future Lorry Parking and Driver Facilities participant
2021
15 Sept LISW 2021 – panelist Women In … summit
13 Sept LISW 2021 – chaired and keynote speaker for WISTA UK
2 Sept – speaker at CILT Corporate Members Day
CILT – TPN Conference chair session Furture Horizons
29 June Women in Maritime chaired the meeting
25 June Plymouth & South Devon Freeports webinar – panelist
15 June – WISTA UK Brexit session chair and speaker
20 May – Women in Breakbulk session panelist
6 May Speaker CILT Seafarers Webinar
5 May chaired Diversity in Maritime Taskforce meeting
4 May panelist SPNL/WISTA UK webinar
22 April Chaired the Maritime UK’s Women in Maritime Taskforce meeting
19 February – Joint session with Julie Lithgow on Women in Maritime and careers in shipping for Solent University
10 January – Breakbulk Middles East – panellist in Diversity session
2020
28 May LogistCompare – chairing the next roundtable on Zoom
27 May All About Shipping Crisis PR roundtable – on the panel
10 May Virtual Coffee Chat Zoom meeting – Sue one of the panelists
29 April LogistCompare – Sue chaired the online roundtable
10-11 March International business conference – Sue keynote speaker day one and moderator in breakout sessions day two
3 February BBC East – Sue interviewed for the news bulletins
19 January Internal Company meeting – Sue presented a session
2019
4 December Security Expo Olympia – Sue speaking and panel member
27 November UK Harbour Masters’ Association – speaking at annual meeting
14 November Evening with Sadiq Khan Mayor of London– Sue one of the speakers at the event
23 October Maritime UK Women’s Taskforce – chairing meeting
11 September – PD Ports/Moderated CILT seminar on Freeports event
10 September Roundtable No 10 Downing Street – on small business issues
9 September London International Shipping Week – WISTA UK Chaired full-day conference – main speaker for evening networking event
13 August ITV News – pre-record on potholes
31 July BBC London – live interview for news broadcasts
19 June Multimodal – chairing panel debate
12 June Women in Shipping at Sea Works Southampton
20 May Chairing FSB Crime seminar
17 May Chairing ULEZ one month on FSB morning seminar
9 May Athens Smarter Shipping Network conference, facilitator for roundtables session
8 May Antwerp XL, facilitator for NextGen lunch and roundtables and then a session on the feedback and open question and answers
19 April interview with USA tv station on ULEZ
8 April interview on BBC regarding the impact of the ULEZ
5 April interview on BBC London on Hammersmith Bridge closure
26 March – Maritime UK Women’s Taskforce meeting in Liverpool
22 March – Sustainable ports conference in Copenhagen – chair for the day
8 March Maritime UK Women’s Taskforce – International Women’s Day event in Belfast
6 February, Imperial Women’s Network, talk on innovation in transport
31 January Maritime UK Women’s Taskforce meeting in Liverpool
7 January – Representing the FSB on London ULEZ impact on small businesses – interviews on the BBC and ITV
2018
Maritime UK Women’s Taskforce Meeting 17 December
Security Expo 29 November – Why diversity matters and the opportunities for Maritime Security companies.
Small Business Saturday Bus – Hammersmith 28 November – Facebook Live interview with Michelle Ovens MBE, director of Small Business Saturday.
Plus a press call. Transport for London sets out new commitments to small businesses to help them to thrive in the capital through the TfL’s ‘statement of support’ for small businesses for their commercial property tenants. A campaign by FSB London: The Federation of Small Businesses London Region
Adversely affected by their rent reviews
Concerned with the level of account management by landlords;
Being forced to opt out of the 1954 Landlord and Tenants Act that provide extra protections to small tenants.
Digital Ship Bergen 22 November – Building Digital Competence across the Transport Supply Chain
Intermodal Europe Rotterdam 7 November
British Ports Association Conference 11 October – On Maritime UK’s Women’s Taskforce, our pledge
Mersey Maritime – Women in Maritime Event 13 September
Southwark Business Rates Event 12 September
Smarter Shipping (IQPC Ltd) 29 August
Maritime Security Training Day – 5 July
Seafarers Week – Interview BBC 22 June – BBC Seafarers Week June 2018 Sue Terpilowski Interview
Digital Ship London 21 June
Propeller Club London 20 June
Evidence to London Assembly Economy Committee 23 May
Multimodal CILT day 1 May
Digital Ship Hamburg 24 April
Digital Ship Copenhagen 28 March
The future of UK ports post-Brexit 27 march
GST & Shipping 2030 Copenhagen 23 March
2017
13 December – Speaking at the launch of the London Mayor’s Sadiq Khan’s Economic Development Strategy at City Hall, Sue raised the issues that face London’s self-employed, micro and small businesses including the lack of affordable business space, London bearing the brunt of the business rate increases across the last two evaluations. Sue urged everyone to make their comments on the strategy both to the FSB London for their response and also directly to the Mayor.
Image Line’s MD Sue Terpilowski OBE at the launch of the Mayor of London’s Economic Strategy
19 May Baltic Shipping Conference – Poland
17 February – ITV London News – piece to camera on Business Rates in London and how there needs to be a higher threshold for London Businesses due to unfair and out of date tax system
Sue Terpilowski OBE on national tv giving an interview to ITN London Sue Terpilowski OBE filming for ITN London news story
2016
FSB & Capital Enterprise London Business Rates Event held at the City of London Corporation 25 November 2016
Read the full story here – https://imageline.co.uk/press-release/fsb-london-chair-makes-impassioned-speech-business-rates-ticking-time-bomb/
FSB London 60 Seconds with Iain Duncan Smith 24 November 2016 view here https://www.periscope.tv/w/1vAGRXrwkDjxl
MIPIM UK – Panel Session on Business Rates 20 October 2016
London’s businesses will be forced to hand over an extra £4 billion from their business rates to the treasury over the next five years which will have a negative effect on the capital’s economy. This is not just bad for London it is bad for the whole UK. The golden goose may stop laying the eggs, the cost of being a business in London is now disproportionately high – business rents, rates, London Living Wage and road congestion costs are seriously eroding the profitability of staying in Central London.
The Guardian News Paper – London and Business Rates revaluation https://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2016/sep/30/entrepreneurs-biggest-business-rates-change-generation-london
You and Yours – Radio 4
Sue Terpilowski BBC Radio 4 giving an interview to You and Yours
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07w5y8z
London and Business Rates revaluation – Financial Time – https://www.ft.com/content/328a7ccc-7bfa-11e6-b837-eb4b4333ee43
Daily Telegraph – Southern Rail strike and effect on micro and small businesses in London
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/08/10/just-how-damaging-is-the-southern-rail-strike-to-the-uks-economy/
Evening Standard – Business rates and the action the Mayor needs to take to help micro and small businesses in London http://www.standard.co.uk/business/small-businesses-urge-khan-to-take-prompt-action-over-rates-a3249081.html
Evening Standard – the next government needs to think small
http://www.standard.co.uk/business/markets/sue-terpilowski-the-next-government-needs-to-think-small-10215526.html
Computer Weekly – broadband issues
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450280231/New-London-mayor-urged-to-take-drastic-action-on-capital-broadband
Londonist – Housing a major issue for micro and small businesses
http://londonist.com/2016/03/fsb
City AM – Micro and Small business confidence in London plummets
http://www.cityam.com/237043/budget-2016-small-business-confidence-plummets-in-london-as-federation-of-small-businesses-fsb-bank-on-budget-boost-