Richard Leslie News

Richard Leslie has been appointed as permanent secretary of the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS). Hi will succeed Robin Bradley, who is retiring. Leslie, a former Chief Executive of British Marine Mutual, will join the IACS Secretariat in London and will take over the post of Permanent Secretary towards the end of the year. Richard Leslie headed British Marine Mutual Insurers of c.8000 ships worldwide from 1992 to 2001. Previously, he was managing director of the offshore electronics and survey group Oceonics. Prior to his move to Oceonics, he spent some years with Christian Salvesen’s specialist shipping companies.

A new initiative, for closer monitoring of steel thickness measurement companies, has been taken by the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS). Under a new Procedural Requirement (PR 23), which took effect on 1 August, all IACS members are obliged to report any change in the status of approval of TM companies. A full list of thickness measurement (TM) companies approved by IACS members is now available on the IACS Website (www.iacs.org.uk). These TM companies are approved to take steel thickness gauging of ships subject to the Enhanced Survey Program (ESP). IACS Permanent Secretary Richard Leslie says: “TM companies play a central role in the assessment of vessel condition.