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href="http://web.archive.org/web/20220811152704/https://marinedevelopments.blog.gov.uk/author/sean-douglas/" title="Posts by Sean Douglas, Head of Enforcement, Intelligence and Investigations" class="author url fn" rel="author">Sean Douglas, Head of Enforcement, Intelligence and Investigations</a>, <span class="govuk-visually-hidden">Posted on: </span><time class="updated" datetime="2022-07-07T09:24:11+01:00" pubdate>7 July 2022</time> - <span class="govuk-visually-hidden">Categories: </span> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20220811152704/https://marinedevelopments.blog.gov.uk/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a></div> </header> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>It’s really encouraging that so many vessels across our English inshore have installed their onboard I-VMS devices and received the grant funding to re-imburse their costs, but we realise there is still much work to do. We have now hit …</p> </div> <footer class="govuk-body-s"> <a class="govuk-link" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20220811152704/https://marinedevelopments.blog.gov.uk/2022/07/07/i-vms-update-5/"><strong>Read more</strong> <span class="govuk-visually-hidden">of I-VMS update 5</span></a> </footer> </article> <article class="post-4198 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized"> <header> <h2 class="govuk-heading-m"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20220811152704/https://marinedevelopments.blog.gov.uk/2022/06/10/i-vms-focus-on-data-collection/">I-VMS - Focus on: data collection</a></h2> <div class="govuk-body-s"> <span class="govuk-visually-hidden">Posted by: </span> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20220811152704/https://marinedevelopments.blog.gov.uk/author/sean-douglas/" title="Posts by Sean Douglas, Head of Enforcement, Intelligence and Investigations" class="author url fn" rel="author">Sean Douglas, Head of Enforcement, Intelligence and Investigations</a>, <span class="govuk-visually-hidden">Posted on: </span><time class="updated" datetime="2022-06-10T11:51:32+01:00" pubdate>10 June 2022</time> - <span class="govuk-visually-hidden">Categories: </span> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20220811152704/https://marinedevelopments.blog.gov.uk/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a></div> </header> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>We are supporting industry to meet the requirement to have an I-VMS device installed and operational before the introduction of the Statutory Instrument (SI), scheduled for late 2022. 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