“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
Most shipping companies bring in outside help too late, once a detention, a failed audit, or a stalled project has already cost them. The useful question is not whether consultants are worth it, but which specific problems genuinely need one and which do not. By MarineCraft Journal · 21 August 2026 · 8 … Read more
Fuel is the largest single cost of running most ships, and it is the one that moves. Understanding what actually drives the price of very low sulphur fuel oil, and how that price reaches your operating account, is worth more than watching a daily quote. By MarineCraft Journal · 20 August 2026 … Read more
Buying survival equipment is the easy part. Keeping it certified for the rest of its working life depends on picking a servicing provider whose authorisation actually covers your equipment, and that is where fleets quietly acquire a compliance problem they only discover at inspection. By MarineCraft Journal · 20 August 2026 · 9 … 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.
Methane is invisible, worth money, and a powerful greenhouse gas. Regulators and buyers no longer accept an estimate of how much is leaking. They want it measured, at the source, and verifiable, and drones are becoming the tool that makes that possible.
