by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog
While wearing one of my other hats, as Senior Vice President of The Nautical Institute and member of The Institute’s NGO delegation to IMO, I am very much focused on the Polar Code as it progresses through it’s latest re-incarnation. As soon as I disembark RV Mirai in...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog
For many months now, those of us with interests in Polar shipping have been awaiting the news on the selection of shippers and exporters for Russia’s ambitious Yamal LNG project. On 15 July the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced Russia had granted LNG...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog
It feels a tad ironic that I left London behind this morning clear and crisp and now sit in Vancouver, heavily shrouded in fog. Sherlock Holmes would love it that irony. The only fog I saw in London this past week was the fog of fatigue from the delegates...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog
It is nearing the end of day two at IMO. As is normal for this organization, sessions are usually marathon runs, as committees, sub-committees and working groups attempt to meet their various goals and remits. Regardless of some press that has come...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog
I am off to London in the next few hours to attend IMO SDC 1 Sub-committee on Ship Design and Construction. This is the first meeting under the re-engineered sub-committee structure. There has been somewhat of a streamlining achieved with the previous...
