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MARITIME NEW ZEALAND MOSS PROGRAMME MANAGER APPOINTED Maritime New Zealand has appointed a programme manager to lead the Maritime Operator Safety System (MOSS) team through the final stages of rule development and into planning for implementation. John Oldroyd (right) has a strong background in transport regulation, having worked for the New Zealand Transport Agency as national manager vehicles and, before that as national manager rail regulation. "Other previous roles have also given me extensive experience in programme management, including as director of a major regulatory transformation programme at the agency," says Oldroyd. He says he's no stranger to implementing major legislative changes, having managed the implementation of two land transport rules, as well as overseeing Building Act changes at the Department of Building and Housing, and helping bring the changes into the business-as-usual work for the department. Oldroyd came to New Zealand from the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s, where he specialised in performance auditing and evaluation at the National Audit Office, then in assessing advertising activity for a media auditing consultancy. He continued his performance evaluation work in New Zealand at the office of the auditor-general and in Australia at the Australian National Audit office, before returning to New Zealand for a range of high-level consulting roles. He started his MOSS role at the beginning of August. MOSS holds particular attraction for him because of its emphasis on improving safety. "The MOSS role is about managing a programme of work with the outcome of improving safety," he says. "I have always had a passion for working to help improve safety and this links back to my work in rail and vehicles, and why I joined the NZTA in the first place." PORT AUTHORITIES CLAMP DOWN ON SAFETY The 45 maritime authorities of the Paris and the Tokyo Memoranda on Port State Control are to begin a joint inspection campaign from September 1 to ensure compliance with structural safety and the Load Line Convention. The campaign will last for three months and end on November 30. For the last eight years, deficiencies related to structural safety and load lines have accounted for 15 percent of total deficiencies. Furthermore, structural safety for ship types other than bulk carrier and compliance with the Load Line Convention in general have never been addressed. Port state control officers will verify applicable documents and aspects such as loading instruments, the protection of hatch openings, the vessel's hull, bulkheads and deck, and other features of the convention and structural integrity in more detail. The officers will be guided by a questionnaire listing items to be covered during the inspection. The questionnaires were published on the websites of Paris MoU and Tokyo MoU in the beginning of August. When deficiencies are found, the officers may instruct the master to rectify them within a certain period, or detain the ship until they have been completed. In the case of detention, publication in the monthly list of detentions available on the Paris MoU and Tokyo MoU web pages will take place. The results of the campaign will be analysed and the findings presented to the governing bodies of the MoUs for submission to the IMO. 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The number of rescue missions decreased slightly year-on-year from 3672 to 3337. The statistics reveal that rising fuel prices could be impacting the way New Zealanders are going boating, says the president of Coastguard New Zealand, Colin Small. "Vessels are going out with more people on board. We believe this is a sign of the times, with the increasing cost of petrol leading people to think more carefully about the way they go boating." The Coastguard's 2244 volunteers devoted 348,346 hours, or 155 hours each, to the organisation. The partners, their children and their families also played a vital role. Small said New Zealanders showed their generosity toward Coastguard during its first national MayDay fundraising campaign on May 1. "In incredibly tough economic times we were more than pleased with the result of the campaign. The support we received was fantastic." VIP.S80