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01 Mar 2023

Branch activities - World Maritime Day 2022 - New Technologies for Greener Shipping

World Maritime Day provides an opportunity to honour the tireless work of those who work in the maritime industry and who despite the difficulties created by the Covid pandemic...

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01 Mar 2023

IMO Update Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Construction (SDC)

The SDC sub-committee considers subjects related to ship design and construction, including subdivision and stability. The Sub-Committee also covers testing and approval of construction and materials, load lines, tonnage measurement, safety of fishing vessels and the carriage of industrial personnel. 

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01 Mar 2023

Safety – proactive or reactive?

Safety should be more than just a series of responses to accidents

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01 Feb 2023

The Green Curriculum: Establishing a starting point

Since my last article in September 2022, we have experienced a varied and encouraging reaction to our ‘Green Curriculum’ initiative, which sets out to define what seafarers will need to know in order to work safely with new fuels.

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01 Feb 2023

A new outrage in criminalisation

The case of the Heroic Idun – and how the NI is moving to educate seafarers on the issues - Just after midnight on 8 August 2022, the two-year old crude tanker Heroic Idun arrived at Nigeria’s Akpo offshore terminal in accordance with voyage orders.

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01 Feb 2023

IMO Update Maritime Safety Committee (MSC106) and MEPC

The 106th meeting of the MSC was held from 2 to 11 November 2022. This was an in-person session with hybrid participation, chaired by Mrs Mayte Medina (United States). The Vice-Chair was Mr Theofilos Mozas (Greece).

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01 Feb 2023

Capt's Column- Mariner mental wellness

Improving mental health of seafarers in the wake of the pandemic – what’s in the toolbox?

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01 Jan 2023

Feature: Moving on from Covid-19

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, online teaching was perceived by many as simply a useful method for providing access to learning resources. However, with the arrival of the pandemic, approaches to teaching that were previously used only in support of face-to-face sessions came to the fore.

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01 Jan 2023

Feature: Forward to the next 50 years

Happy New Year everyone, I hope that 2023 is good to you whether you are ashore or afloat. I am excited to be President of The Nautical Institute at this time, not only as we celebrate our 50th Anniversary but because as a (still sailing) seafarer with the experience of over 40 years in the maritime industry it has given me the opportunity to make a difference over the two year term, especially for the next generation of seafarers.

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01 Jan 2023

Hong Kong SAR 50th anniversary event The changing face of seafaring

The Hong Kong branch of The Nautical Institute centred the programme of their 50th anniversary event around what Aalok Sharma described in his opening speech as ‘The most important asset of the maritime community – the men and women at sea’.

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