Foresight Group celebrated its 26th winter barbecue on Friday last week after what chief operating officer John Wishart described as a “really outstanding and amazing year”.

The annual event in south-west London is as popular as ever. Among the 450 guests were UK maritime minister Nusrat Ghani and Alok Sharma, secretary of state for international development, India’s high commissioner to the UK Ruchi Ghanashyam and IMO secretary general Kitack Lim.