Martin is a consultant at Fervent Chambers LLC, and concurrently serves as:

• Consultant at LWP.SG, a Singapore consultancy in the maritime domain since October 2022 (https://lwp.sg/media/Martin_Marini_1st_Oct_2022.html)
• Consultant at the Singapore Transport Safety Investigation Bureau (TSIB) (https://www.mot.gov.sg/what-we-do/transport-investigations/ )

Martin regularly accepts:

• Consulting assignments from leading maritime law practices in Singapore on maritime regulatory and licensing issues
• Consulting assignments from the Centre for International Law of the National University of Singapore on maritime regulatory practice issues
• Ad-hoc appointments as sole or co-mediator for disputes resolution

Since 2021, Martin also consults and works with the NUS Centre for International Law’s (CIL) ocean governance research team, and the Singapore Transport Safety Investigation Bureau (TSIB) under the Ministry of Transport.

Between 2005 to Jan 2020, Martin was General Counsel (GC) at the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA). At MPA, he advised the Board and Senior Management of the MPA on all aspects of MPA’s legal, regulatory, licensing and enforcement framework and activities covering MPA’s 3 principal roles as Singapore’s:

• Maritime Cluster Champion Agency
• National Maritime Flag and Ship Registry Regulator and
• National Statutory Port Authority, regulating marine and port services in Singapore

He also worked on Singapore’s national legislative implementation in 2012 of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Maritime Labour Convention (MLC). After MLC came into force in 2012, Martin was part of Singapore’s delegation to the Special Tripartite Committee (STC) of the MLC from 2014 to 2021, serving the STC’s drafting committees and drafting groups that produced the amendments to the MLC which came into force between 2016 to 2020. He was vice-chair representing the member governments in the STC between 2018 to 2021. He chaired the 5th STC meeting in Geneva in 2025 and continues to serve as the STC chair.

After retiring from MPA in 2020, Martin was consultant at the Singapore Organisation of Seamen between August 2020 to end July 2025 and at the Maritime & Port Authority of Singapore Academy from 2021 to 2024.

In July 2022, Martin contributed a paper on ports security in an international online academic symposium organised by the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) of the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU).

In his spare time, Martin sacrifices his golf handicap to actively volunteer in roles including legal adviser, board member, board secretary and trustee for 5 Singapore registered charities including ProBono SG.