ER Offshore managing director Ian Perrott delivered a positive message evenly tempered with some pragmatic warnings about the offshore market, which seemed to be a common thread running through the various panel discussions at the TradeWinds Offshore Marine conference this week.

The conference subtitle, “Catching the rising market”, fitted the sentiments among the group of speakers fairly well but the notably upbeat tone was accompanied with a share of caveats.

Perrott,