White Ensign Association holds ‘New Government, New Maritime Horizons’ event

The White Ensign Affiliation held a seminar on 21 January at Trinity Home.

Entitled ‘New Authorities, New Maritime Horizons’, the occasion featured keynote speeches by UK Maritime Minister Mike Kane MP and the First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Ben Key KCB, CBE, ADC, JB Rae Smith, President of the UK Chamber of Transport and Nick Brown, CEO of Lloyd’s Register. After the shows, Jos Standerwick, Chief Govt of Maritime London  moderated a panel dialogue the place Nick Brown, JB Rae Smith, and the First Sea Lord have been joined by Maritime London Chair and White Ensign Trustee Harry Theochari.

After the dialogue, on behalf of Maritime London Harry Theochari signed the Armed Forces Covenant with the First Sea Lord, pledging that Maritime London would uphold its two key ideas:

Members of the Armed Forces Neighborhood mustn’t face disadvantages arising from their service within the provision of public and industrial providers.
In some circumstances particular provision could also be justified, particularly for individuals who have given probably the most, such because the injured or bereaved.

Harry Theochari stated: “Because the industry-led physique representing the UK’s maritime skilled providers, Maritime London’s position and imaginative and prescient is to keep up and improve the UK’s international primacy because the main supplier of such maritime skilled providers. At a time when the maritime {industry} faces a few of the best geopolitical challenges ever, we’re massively grateful and indebted to the pivotal position that the Armed Forces play in making certain freedom of navigation and in defending and safeguarding the Nation and its maritime infrastructure and power belongings.

“We’re delighted and really honoured to be signing the Armed Forces Covenant. It’s a clear message from Maritime London and the promote it represents that we recognise and vastly worth all that our Armed Forces do and the sacrifices that they make to defend the worldwide rules-based order which we maintain so pricey. We’re absolutely dedicated to do all that we will to help our Armed Forces and the entire Armed Forces Neighborhood.”