The conference will explore four principal areas: Criminalisation, Environment, Technology and Digitisation and The Role of the Seafarer and will be seeking answers to the following questions...

• Why do countries persist in criminalising seafarers?
• Why are seafarers arrested for events outside their control?
• How are environmental regulations likely to develop over the next 25 years?
• How can seafarers keep up with the IMO’s regulations but also those of national and local bodies?
• How can seafarers keep up with fast changing technology?
• How can conflicts between ships with a high degree of autonomy and those with little or none be managed?
• Do seafarers require better protection for abandonment and detention onboard?
• What can be done about these and many other issues?

Mike Yarwood will be Speaking on Criminalization in shipping at 14:45pm BST.