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INDUSTRY TRENDS

Adm. Kime Honored For Efforts In Marltlmo

Safety And Pollution Prevention

By James R. McCaul, president,

IMA Associates, Inc.

Twenty major ship operators control 530 product tankers, accounting for 25 percent of the number of product tankers now in service and almost 40 percent of the available worldwide product tanker capacity.

Source: /MA Associates, Five Year Outlook for U.S. Shipbuilding, 1994

Admiral J. William Kime, who recently retired as Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), won the International Maritime Prize for 1993. The prize is awarded annually to the person thought to have done most towards advancing the objectives of the International

Maritime Organization (IMO), the

U.N. agency concerned with mari- time safety and the prevention of pollution from ships.

Adm. Kime has been an active participant in the technical and po- litical workings of IMO at all levels since 1972. He has always been, and remains, a strong proponent of multilateral solutions to maritime safety and marine environmental concerns.

Adm. Kime was a key partici- pant in the development of the In- ternational Gas Carrier Code and the International Bulk Chemicals

Code, and served as the principal

U.S. negotiator for these agree- ments.

He also make an important con- tribution to 1978 International Con- ference on Tanker Safety and Pol- lution Prevention and served as head of the U.S. Delegation to the

IMO Sub-Committees on Bulk

Chemicals and Ship Design and

Equipment. During 1984-1988,

Adm. Kime served as the Chief of the Office of Marine Environment and Systems, and subsequently as

Chief of the Office of Merchant

Marine Safety. He was responsible for combining these two offices into the Office of Marine Safety, Secu- rity and Environmental Protection, and served as its first chief. He served as head of the U.S.'s Delega- tion to IMO's Marine Environment

Protection Committee and the Mari- time Safety Committee.

Adm. Kime was a leader in the international effort to develop an international solution to maritime terrorism, as a result of the Achille

Lauro incident, an effort which re- sulted in the development of the

Convention for the Suppression of

Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of

Maritime Navigation, 1988, and spe- cific measures to prevent unlawful acts. He also strongly supported the latest efforts by IMO to emphasize the importance of such measures.

He played a leading role in the successful development of subdivi- sion and stability standards for dry cargo vessels and increased residual stability for passenger vessels, through amendments to the Inter- national Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974. He initiated the development, and the 1988 update, of the Code for the

Construction and Equipment of

Mobile Offshore Drilling Units and was a principal supporter of the de- velopment and implementation of the Global Maritime Distress and

Safety System (GMDSS).

Adm. Kime served as head of the

U.S. Delegation to the Conference on International Cooperation on Oil

Pollution Preparedness and Re- sponse. He also served as head of the U.S. Delegation to the 17th and 18th IMO Assemblies.

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