Speaker: Martin Shaw, 120th IMarEST President and Chair of the IMarEST History Society
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 1980s to the 2000s.
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 will cover:
- The causes of tanker spills in the 1970s and 1980s
- How the system developed with technology
- How vetting and owners adapted to the changes following Newton's 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, Martin Shaw, ran a vetting organisation in the early 1990s, and shortly afterwards ran a tanker fleet, making him uniquely placed to look at both sides of the equation.
