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The Port of Cork is playing host for the International Standard for Maritime Pilot Organisations (ISPO) annual Conference which began today.

The two-day Conference held in the Dean Hotel, near Horgan's Quay, is also in partnership with the International Association of Marine & Shipping Professionals (IAMSP).

The conference program offers associates and interested pilot organizations a varied number of speakers who will discuss ISPO related topics. Among them Afloat adds the award winning global chemical and product tanker operator Ardmore Shipping which has an operations office based in Cork city.  

As part of the conference, a workshop was scheduled this morning by Bureau Veritas on how to conduct an internal audit according to the ISPO Code and topics such as Designated Person, Observations and NC's discussed.

Tomorrow, the ISPO's annual meeting of associates will be held in the afternoon.

Published in Port of Cork

William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago