Rear Adm John Nadeau, aide commander of avoidance plan, and alsoMr Jeff Lantz, Director of Commercial Regulations and also Standards, provided a Coast Guard Distinguished Public Service Award April 2, 2019 toMr James R. Lawrence throughout the 34th Connecticut Maritime Association’s Shipping Conference.

Lawrence, that presently works as chairman of MTI U.S.A. and also is head of state and also a founding companion of MTI Network, was identified for his impressive management, assistance and also payment to global delivery from 1987 to today.

The honor, which Nadeau provided in behalf of theCoast Guard Commandant Adm Karl Schultz, identifiedMr Lawrence as the driving pressure behind the Connecticut Maritime Association’s yearly Shipping Conference, the United States’ transcendent global delivery seminar.

Nadeau additionally applauded Lawrence for his duty in uniting essential participants of the global delivery area to cultivate positive factor to consider of not just the problems and also their effect on delivery, yet likewise remedies to one of the most troublesome troubles. Lawrence made certain the CMA Shipping Conference resolved one of the most essential and also crucial regulative campaigns dealing with delivery consisting of the terminate of solitary hull vessels, mass provider security, maritime protection and also the ISPS Code and also much more lately ballast water and also the 2020 sulfur limitation.

“He inclusively brought world-renowned leaders and experts from the maritime industry as well as the regulatory and the financial sectors. Most importantly, he never lost sight of shipping’s most important resource, the mariners, as he diligently ensured their voices were included,” Nadeau proceeded. “Throughout his tenure, Mr. Lawrence has been a tireless supporter of international shipping and its value to the United States and the world, diligently advocating that shipping, as an international business, needs well understood and consistent international solutions. His dedication, professionalism, and unwavering support for the maritime community are most heartily commended and are in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Coast Guard.”