Reflectionism & Predictionism whatever next?

Dr Phil Anderson, an international expert on the ISM Code and a qualified Class One Master Mariner who spent 25 years working within P&I and who now runs his own specialist ISM consultancy company ConsultISM Ltd, looks at the latest news on the ISM Code. He is also president of The Nautical Institute, the international professional body for ships’ captains and others in control of seagoing craft.

In the final run up to the 1 July 1998 deadline of the Phase I ISM implementation, few believed that the verification and certification of the 12,000 or so tankers, passenger ships and bulk carriers would be completed in time. The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) made it very clear that there would be no extensions and port state control made loud and clear statements that they intended a concentrated inspection campaign with zero tolerance for non-compliant ships.