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.
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
Every ship over 500 tons carries a Safety Management System. On the best-run vessels it shapes how the crew actually works. On too many others it is a binder that comes off the shelf when an auditor arrives. The gap between those two states is where accidents and detentions live.
For thirty years a tanker faced the same fixed checklist. SIRE 2.0 builds a unique inspection for every vessel, in real time, and puts the crew on trial too.
Port State Control detentions in the Asia-Pacific are not random. The same Tokyo MOU deficiency categories detain ships year after year, and knowing them is the difference between a three-hour inspection and a three-day detention.
