A chartered master mariner, Younger Brother of Trinity House in London and a Fellow of the Nautical Institute, he commenced his maritime career in 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following eighteen years of a commercial seafaring career during which he progressed from cadet to master specialising in petrochemicals, he joined the Port of London Authority as a pilot in 1991 and retired in December 2019. He held various pilotage related positions with the PLA including VTS port controller and pilot simulator training lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During his pilotage career he held the posts of Chairman of the United Kingdom Maritime Pilots\u2019 Association and its Secretary General. During much of the same period he was a Technical Adviser to the executive management committee of the International Maritime Pilots\u2019 Association (IMPA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also represented IMPA in various PIANC working groups, researching and producing reports on: the design of Harbour Approach channels; the integrity Maritime Simulators; Impacts of ships on fixed structures, Climate Change Adaptation planning for ports and Impacts of ships on fixed structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to advisory work with a number of high level commercial bodies, he has held a number of posts with organisations engaged in training pilots world-wide. A long standing member of the CHIRP MAB, he is also a member of the MASRWG and the MCA chaired MASSpeople group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most recently he is volunteering with the charity Mercy Ships as a fund-raising speaker, awareness ambassador and maritime adviser to the UK management office, focussing on building relationships between the charity and the UK maritime community at all levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15578,"parent":0,"menu_order":9,"template":"","team":[307,314],"class_list":["post-15577","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team-advisory-board","team-maritime-3"],"acf":{"title":{"simple_value_formatted":"","value_formatted":"","value":"","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