Dunelm conferences

Dunelm organises conferences on topical issues. Its first conference, in 2008, was based on the MAIB report into an incident involving the shortsea containership Annabella, which experienced a container stack collapse in the Baltic Sea. Although the stack collapse did not have any serious consequences, the MAIB report highlighted a number of important issues that were hotly debated by speakers and delegates at the conference.

Dunelm's conference in London on 29 June 2010 addressed misdeclared container weights. Most people in the maritime industry believe container weights should be verified before loading on board a vessel. The conference discussed the weighing of containers in ports and terminals and the considerable problems involved.