Seaways – August 2019

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Seaways

Contents

Comment & Opinion

03 Focus
Chief Executive John Lloyd FNI

Features

04 First Offi cer’s Column
Time to let go of the past? Not so fast

05 AGM seminar report
Shiphandling, pilotage and technology

09 Coaching for training and

development

Coaching manoeuvres on board

12 The NI and the IMO
An exclusive interview with Secretary
General Kitack Lim

14 Driving lifeboats and

rescue boats

Practical information on a skill that’s

hard to exercise

16 NI short courses

What, when and where

21 Navigating the hazards

Making a passage plan for inclusion

22 Gaining momentum in DP

Accreditation for conducting DP trials

24 Cargo integrity

A new campaign to improve

container safety

MARS

17 MARS reports

Collision with barge; gas vapour in ballast

tank; scaff olding issues; helm orders;

collision with training wall; crane failure

Reporting back

26 Nautelex

News aff ecting the maritime professional

27 Book review

Eight Down – David Reid AFNI

28 Conferences

Seafarers’ Education & Crewing

Transnav

WISTA seminar – autonomous shipping

Members & Branches

31 Branch activities

Reports on branch activity and events

32 Letters

34 Obituaries

35 The Nautical Institute

Out and about

36 New members

August 2019