Port State Control, SIRE 2.0, the ISM Code and the survey regime. What inspectors look for, why detentions cluster in the same few categories, and how operators build evidence that survives an audit rather than assembling it the night before.
An Inventory of Hazardous Materials is not a certificate you obtain and file. Part I is a living record of what is physically in the ship, and it has to survive twenty years of repairs, retrofits and equipment swaps before anyone reaches a recycling yard. By MarineCraft Journal · 21 September 2026 … Read more
Holding the certificate no longer settles the question. Since D-2 became mandatory for every ship in scope, inspectors have moved from verifying documents to sampling what actually leaves the ship, and the findings that follow are rarely about the treatment plant. By MarineCraft Journal · 18 September 2026 · 8 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
Enclosed space entry kills experienced seafarers every year, and it kills the people who go in after them. The procedures that prevent it are well established and widely documented. They fail in the same handful of ways, and every one of those ways is visible to an auditor beforehand. By MarineCraft Journal … Read more
“IMO compliance” is sold as a single service, which is misleading. It covers at least four distinct regulatory streams with different rules, different certificates, and different inspectors. Knowing which stream your problem sits in is most of the work. By MarineCraft Journal · 21 August 2026 · 9 mins read 4main convention … Read more
The worst disaster in the history of offshore oil began with a piece of paper that was not passed on. A safety valve was removed, the permit for the job never reached the next shift, and the pump was restarted. 167 people died. The permit-to-work failures behind it recur, at smaller scale, … Read more
