P&I Correspondents - and some P&I clubs - will be "dead as dodos" because of the expense of keeping up standards despite a decreasing workload. That warning came last week from Rodney Doust, advisor to P&I correspondent Pandica of Caracas, Venezuela. He was speaking from the floor at a conference last week that brought together about 250 correspondents from 78 countries for the first such gathering to be organised by the International Group of P&I clubs and contrasted two pieces of advice that speakers had given earlier in the day: to keep teams small to cut costs and to diversify. "If you are a small company, what else are you going to do? Sell whisky?"
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