Arsenio Dominguez
The Guardian
What holds, and what fails, under pressure, standards and accountability.
Dominguez operates as a Guardian, his entire posture is defensive of an established international order rather than transformative. He repeatedly anchors decisions to IMO's near-80-year rule-of-law framework, resists legitimizing transit fees from any party including the US, and frames his role as protecting seafarers and upholding principles against geopolitical volatility. His leadership is custodial, coalition-building through institutional consensus.
“I will maintain the message of upholding international law for countries to do the same thing, and for companies at this stage, particularly with the volatility, not to take risks to transit through the strait.”
“We base all our decisions and all the practices in accordance to what has been happening at IMO for nearly eighty years. The rule of law that continues to allow trade to move over eighty percent of goods for everywhere around the world.”
“There is no international law basis for any of these mechanisms to be put in place, and for us at IMO, we first focus on the safety of the seafarers.”
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