Head of ADOMS elected chair of IMO Technical

Ambassador Dwight Gardiner has been elected to serve as chairman of the
Technical Cooperation Committee of the International Maritime Organisation
(IMO).
Gardiner is currently the Director/Registrar-General of the Antigua and Barbuda
Department of Marine Services and Merchant Shipping (ADOMS), the Maritime
Administration of Antigua and Barbuda, and Permanent Representative of Antigua
and Barbuda to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) since 2009 and
2005 respectively.
His election took place during the IMO’s Technical Cooperation Committee for its
73rd session from October 16-19. He is also Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary with special representative responsibility for the International
Maritime Organization (IMO), the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the
International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO), the International Oil Pollution
Compensation Funds (IOPC Funds) and the Association of Caribbean States
(ACS).
Ambassador Gardiner has been involved in the maritime sector of Antigua and
Barbuda for over 35 years. He was Chairman of the Caribbean Memorandum of
Understanding on Port State Control from 2009 to 2018; Maritime Advisor to the
Government of Antigua and Barbuda from 2004 to 2009; Vice Chairman of the
Caribbean MOU on Port State Control from 2003-2008; Deputy Permanent
Representative of Antigua and Barbuda to the IMO from 2003-2005; and Senior
Deputy Director and Registrar of Ships of the Antigua and Barbuda Department of
Marine Services and Merchant Shipping from 1991 – 2003.