With just a week to go until maritime expertise from across the Red Ensign Group meets for its annual Conference, this year's hosts have been talking about why it matters to them.
All the British shipping registries and their coastal states will be represented at the event which this year is being hosted in the Falkland Islands.
Last year it was the turn of Montserrat and at the end of that Conference as the bell which begins the event was handed over, this year's host talked about why it matters.