Alan Cartwright is Director of consultancy Blabey Engineering Limited. He served in the Royal Navy from 1975 until 1998 in a variety of sea appointments, including Senior Engineer HMY Britannia (1991-94), and shore postings including marine gas turbine R&D (1987-89) and warship refit superintendent (1996-98). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Head of Marine Engineering to the Port of London Authority (1998-2013), Alan updated fleet operations and provided engineering advice to the PLA\u2019s executive and main boards. He also supported the UK ports\u2019 sector, the UK DfT and the MCA on a variety of legislative, technical and environmental issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recently Commercial Manager at Warsash Maritime Academy (2014-2017), he developed specialist training packages and managed all tracts. At international conferences, Alan chairs discussion on a variety of maritime subjects, as well as advising industry bodies and UK Government departments on competencies, safety and standards for seafarers and ships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alan is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the IMechE and the IMarEST, a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12127,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"template":"","team":[307,314],"class_list":["post-12126","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team-advisory-board","team-maritime-3"],"acf":{"title":{"simple_value_formatted":"Director, Blabey Engineering Ltd","value_formatted":"Director, Blabey Engineering Ltd","value":"Director, Blabey Engineering Ltd","field":{"ID":743,"key":"field_624c1fef67774","label":"Title","name":"title","aria-label":"","prefix":"acf","type":"text","value":null,"menu_order":0,"instructions":"","required":0,"id":"","class":"","conditional_logic":0,"parent":742,"wrapper":{"width":"","class":"","id":""},"default_value":"","placeholder":"","prepend":"","append":"","maxlength":"","wpml_cf_preferences":2,"_name":"title","_valid":1}},"location":{"simple_value_formatted":"","value_formatted":"","value":"","field":{"ID":24566,"key":"field_661d2ac272b13","label":"Location","name":"location","aria-label":"","prefix":"acf","type":"text","value":null,"menu_order":1,"instructions":"","required":0,"id":"","class":"","conditional_logic":0,"parent":742,"wrapper":{"width":"","class":"","id":""},"wpml_cf_preferences":2,"default_value":"","maxlength":"","placeholder":"","prepend":"","append":"","show_in_graphql":1,"graphql_description":"","graphql_field_name":"location","graphql_non_null":0,"_name":"location","_valid":1}}},"mb":[],"yoast_head":"\n