Speaker: Martin Shaw, Past President and interim Chair of the History Society, IMarEST
About the event:
As SIRE 2.0 heads into operations this may be a useful time to look at the development of oil tanker vetting in its first 20 years from the 1980's to the noughties,
Pollution from oil tankers reduced dramatically over this period of time and this livestream looks at what created the vetting structure and how its influence grew over time to improve tanker operations.
The presentation looks at the causes of tanker spills in the 70's and 80's. It looks at how the system developed with technology. It looks at how vetting and owners adapted to the changes following Newton third law- action and reaction. The early days of SIRE from being a fax driven system to a common inspection format are also explained. The importance of Port State inspection is also considered
The speaker ran a vetting organisation in the early 90's ,and shortly afterwards ran a tanker fleet, and is uniquely placed to look at both sides of the equation.
