The President’s Column Dear IIMS Member
On June 16th this year, I had the privilege of being handed the baton of presidency from my friend and fellow board member Captain Zarir Irani, who had been a very active President during his two years. He has also been a leading light for Regional Directors, not least in his own successful Middle East region and his involvement with the UAE branch. For this and his other hard work on behalf of the Institute, I would like to offer my own thanks and I am sure the thanks of the entire membership too.
This leaves me and the management board the unenviable task of keeping the momentum going; fortunately we have Mike at the helm and he
is sure to keep steering us in the right direction.
In June this year, the IIMS became a leading force in helping to bring about change to the Australia Maritime Safety Authority’s (AMSA) attitude to Commercial Craft Regulations. The issues raised by our CEO, Mike Schwarz, in a formal submission to the hearing, helped hugely with significant contributions from Past President, Adam Brancher, was instrumental in bringing a system bogged down by bureaucracy to the attention of an Australian Senate Enquiry. Pleasing to see that our Institute is able to effect changes in the global surveying community.
Although we are all getting a little weary of the constant media coverage and regular government
policy changes due to the global COVID 19 pandemic, it would be remiss of me not to mention how it has affected areas of the IIMS and the activities of surveyors around the world. The effects are far reaching and may also be long lasting. Yesterday I flew back to the UK and looked down on seven empty cruise ships at anchor in Weymouth Bay and three more in Bournemouth Bay. Following an on line meeting at the beginning of the week, our Vice President Peter Broad spoke of fifteen vehicle carriers at anchor off Busan in South Korea. Peter also spoke of the problems moving ships’ crews around the world. As surveyors we are of course exempt from the quarantine regulations under section 256 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, which has enabled those who were confident
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