Martin Barnes

Marine Service Development at Ambipar

Speaker

Martin is one of the Marine Response Specialists working with the global Ambipar Response family to deliver marine response & salvage support operations all over the world. He has led several UK MCA National Stockpile response operations and national exercises that evolved the operational standard for current operations in the UK.

He has also led multiple international operations with the global Ambipar family including OS35, Onego Traveler, Ultra Galaxy and the MT Sounion pollution prevention operation whilst providing support and technical assistance for many other response & salvage support operations around the world, including the Dali response operation in Baltimore.

He is a UK Engineering Council-registered Engineering Technician from a marine, aerospace, and operational project engineering background. Since his time in the Royal Navy he has brought conceptual ideas into reality, managed 200 + people across several European facilities, been responsible for budgets of up to £30 million, created lasting commercial alliances, added value to large and small projects in the Defence, Maritime, Aerospace, Nuclear, Space & Commercial markets.

He was part of the team that created a lifesaving national safety policy with industry peers in association with the UK Health and Safety Executive, simple process changes have been proven to save lives in the global Road Transport Industry. Martin has led and participated in several incident investigations with insurance investigation teams involving road traffic accidents where large goods vehicles were involved. He has delivered several major incident investigations for the marine & aerospace industry involving multiple stakeholders. He has also undertaken company investigations where injury claims have been involved. During his time in the Royal Navy, he was part of several fire and ship related incident investigations.