Crewing, competency and the certificates that gate offshore work. BOSIET and HUET, welder qualification testing, NDT levels, and the mobilisation rules that decide who can legally work where. Written both for employers verifying competence and for the people trying to prove it.
When port State control ran a targeted campaign on crew wages and employment agreements, deficiency rates jumped roughly fourfold against the preceding three years. The ships had not changed. What changed was that someone read the contracts. By MarineCraft Journal · 22 September 2026 · 9 mins read 4xdeficiency rate during the … 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
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
The hard part of staffing an offshore scope is rarely finding people who can do the work. It is finding people whose certificates prove they can, are valid in the right jurisdiction, and are not about to expire halfway through the rotation. By MarineCraft Journal · 21 August 2026 · 9 mins … Read more
The offshore safety officer role sits on a stack of separate qualifications: a statutory appointment, a professional safety certification, survival training, and medical fitness. Each comes from a different body, and a gap in any one keeps the person on the beach. By MarineCraft Journal · 21 August 2026 · 9 mins … Read more
A shipyard can lose a contract before the first weld if its welders cannot prove their qualifications on paper. The welder qualification test looks simple, weld a coupon, test it, but it fails people constantly, and an expired certificate voids a sound weld just as surely as a bad one.
