Two of the most dangerous jobs in the industry are climbing a flare stack and entering a storage tank. A drone can now do the first look on both without a single person leaving the ground, and increasingly the classification societies accept the result.
Class societies accept remote inspection in place of close-up survey, but only from a UR Z17 approved supplier with a surveyor watching live.
ASEAN has no mutual recognition for seafarers. Moving offshore crew into Malaysia runs through flag endorsements, work passes and PETRONAS licensing.
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.
PFOS foam is banned from ships from 2026, and the EU rule bites harder still. Why swapping AFFF for fluorine-free foam is not a simple refill.
The 2019 SOLAS deadline forced a fleet-wide swap of lifeboat on-load release hooks. Years on, they still trigger detentions. What inspectors check, and why.
