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This was the message given by Roel Hoenders, IMO Head, Air Pollution and Energy Efficiency, Subdivision for Protective Measures, Marine Environment Division, in a keynote session at the global maritime environmental congress (gmec), part of SMM Digital, and held in cooperation with Seatrade Maritime.
Answering questions from Seatrade Maritime Review editor Bob Jaques, following a presentation on the current status of IMO initiatives on pollution and emissions, Hoenders said, “You mentioned consensus, this is an important part of our discussions, because the organisation as many of you know is very much focused on consensus, and why is that the case? Because we are very much regulating a global industry.”
Tony Nash, Derek Dickins and Themis Vokos taken in the very early days of Seatrade A look back over the half-century history of Seatrade and this its flagship magazine, first launched by company founder Themis Vokos 50 years ago.
The vision of Seatrade founder Themistocles Vokos was to create a news medium that would focus on the business of maritime transport, appealing as much to the owners of cargo and the financial and trading communities as to traditional shipping – an ‘Economist’ for the sea transportation industry.
At a time when ideas about the globalisation of trade were starting to be recognised, the new magazine was intended to cover the patterns of global seaborne trade, as much as the operational and technical sides of the industry. Seatrade’s first editor Robert Hawkins was hired from the Financial Times and a network of correspondents was set up covering Australia, South America and the Middle East, as well as the more established shipping centres in