A ship carries more portable extinguishers than any other item of safety equipment, and each one runs on three separate clocks at once. The annual service is well known. The five and ten year requirements, and the spare charge arithmetic, are where operators come unstuck. By MarineCraft Journal · 14 September 2026 · … Read more
A fuel can meet the sulphur limit, arrive with correct paperwork, and still wreck an engine. Since the 0.50% cap reshaped the bunker pool, the operational risk moved from compliance to compatibility, and it is managed before the hose is connected rather than after. By MarineCraft Journal · 11 September 2026 · … Read more
Local content is usually described as a policy objective. On a live project it behaves as something far more concrete: a set of conditions determining which companies may bid at all, and who they are permitted to put on the job. By MarineCraft Journal · 10 September 2026 · 9 mins read … Read more
Much of Southeast Asia’s offshore infrastructure was built for a design life that has already passed. Those platforms are still producing, which means the operative question is no longer whether they last, but under what conditions they are allowed to. By MarineCraft Journal · 9 September 2026 · 10 mins read Design … Read more
Demurrage is the cost of a ship waiting, and on a petroleum cargo it accumulates fast enough to erase a trade’s margin in a couple of days. It turns on one question that sounds simple and rarely is: when did the clock actually start? By MarineCraft Journal · 8 September 2026 · … Read more
A dropped spanner from thirty metres carries roughly the energy of a small car at walking pace. Offshore lifting has more paperwork around it than almost any other routine task, and the reason is that the failure mode is measured in fatalities rather than delays. By MarineCraft Journal · 7 September 2026 … Read more
