Over a forty-year career Ted Blamey has been a cruise industry pioneer and leader.

He joined Sitmar Cruises as Managing Director Australasia from McKinsey and Company (where hewas consulting to clients in Australia and the UK) at age 33.

Through the 1980s, under Ted Blamey’s leadership, Sitmar redefined cruising in the South Pacific and South-East Asia to become Australasia’s dominant cruise line within 6 years. Their innovations in product, itineraries, distribution, pricing and marketing continue to underpin the

Asia/Pacific cruise industry. The island destinations they established remain core to all Pacific itineraries. They were the first to offer large ship cruises to Asia.

Ted was then promoted to President/CEO Sitmar International (Los Angeles and Monaco), then one of the leading global cruise lines. While overseeing its dramatic expansion, Ted initiated the first major cruise industry consolidation, merging Sitmar and P&O/Princess worldwide through outright sale of Sitmar’s companies. This set the tone for the global industry’s next decade.

Ted was subsequently CEO of Australia’s largest retail travel group and inaugural Chairman of

Sydney Ports. He helped create Silversea Cruises in the 1990s.

Ted founded CHART Management Consultants in 1997 to help companies, government authorities and investors capitalise on the strength of the global cruise industry. Recently CHART led and authored cruise tourism strategies for the Philippines, South Pacific Tourism and Papua New Guinea, conducted a market/operational appraisal for a new cruise port in southern China and another in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City, assisted a major bank to evaluate the financing of two mega cruise newbuilds and a private investor to examine the market potential for a new Asian cruise line,conducted due diligence for private equity firms considering acquiring a river cruise business and advised both potential entrants and established participants in the industry.

CHART developed the seminal 2013 White Paper on the Asia cruise industry, conducted CLIA’s Asia Cruise Trends projects 2014 to 2018 and CLIA’s subsequent annual Asia Cruise Deployment & Capacity reports.

Ted is a frequent speaker and moderator at global cruise industry events. He leads cruise industry courses for executives.

He earned an Honours degree in Applied Science from University of Melbourne and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard.

Ted was the 2017 honoree to the CLIA Australia Hall of Fame and received Asia Cruise’s Special Achievement Award in 2022. He is a Visiting Fellow of the Seatrade Academy. CHART is an Executive Partner of CLIA, a member of the Australia Cruise Association and of the Asia Cruise

Leaders Network. Ted is affiliated with the Council of China Cruise Development Experts and the Association of International Cruise Research Institutions.