A meeting of the sub-committee on Navigation, Communications, Search and Rescue (NCSR) had been held in January and the next meeting of the parent committee, the Maritime Safety Committee, was then planned for May. In the event this could not be held, and MSC102 was finally arranged for November as a remote session. IMO use the platform KUDO which allows simultaneous translation for delegates which worked well. The meeting was organised as 3 hours per day over 6 days, so committee time was limited. and must have been challenging for the Chairman, Bradley Groves of Australia, who was having to work in the night. Regarding the NCSR work, the report of the January meeting was accepted but there was not time to discuss potential new work items which will be held over to the next meeting. In particular this involves potential revision of standards for Voyage Data Recorders and for Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems. The meeting arranged a next meeting of NCSR for 19 to 23 April 2021. This will again be a virtual meeting with reduced time so will have a limited agenda. Priority will need to be given to the proposed revision of Chapter V (Radiocommunications) of the International Convention on the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) in order to meet the timescales for SOLAS revision. To facilitate this a special intersessional meeting of the Communications Working Group will be held in April. The meeting will report to MSC104, arranged for 4 to 8 October, as MSC103 arranged for 3 to 14 May does not give sufficient time to prepare the report. It is hoped that by 2022 committees will be back to normal and able to handle their full agendas. by Kim Fisher