MarineCraft Journal | Maritime Safety Modern SOLAS-compliant lifeboats are engineered systems, not simply evacuation boats. Understanding their types, launching mechanisms, and regulatory requirements is essential for shipowners, operators, and safety management professionals. Improper testing, misaligned interlocks, and poor crew familiarity with release procedures are consistently among the most common causes of life-saving appliance deficiencies in […]
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Maritime Safety in Southeast Asia: Trends, Rising Risks & Strategic Opportunities
MarineCraft Journal | Maritime Safety Southeast Asia is home to some of the world’s busiest shipping corridors, dense archipelagic coastlines, and rapidly growing coastal and offshore economies. As maritime activity intensifies, the region is reaching a safety and security inflection point, with more traffic, more complex threats, and a rapidly expanding toolkit of regulatory and […]
Fire Suppression Systems on Offshore Platforms: Choosing the Right Solution
MarineCraft Journal | Maritime Safety Offshore platform fire suppression is not a one-system decision. Each area of a platform presents a distinct fire hazard profile, and matching the right suppression technology to that profile is as important as the system’s raw performance. A system that is wrong for the application is not just ineffective. In […]
SOLAS Compliance for Life-Saving Appliances: What Ship Operators Get Wrong
MarineCraft Journal | Maritime Safety SOLAS life-saving appliance requirements are among the most detailed and most frequently deficient areas in port state control inspections worldwide. The gap between what operators think they are doing and what the Convention actually requires is wider than most realise. By MarineCraft Journal · 20 May 2026 · 8 min […]
Liferaft Servicing: Why Delays Are Dangerous & Best Practice for Shipowners
MarineCraft Journal | Maritime Safety A liferaft is the last line of defence for crew survival when abandoning ship. Yet schedule pressure and misplaced cost-consciousness routinely lead to delayed or inadequate servicing, creating silent, ship-wide risk that remains invisible until the moment it cannot be afforded. Understanding why on-time servicing is non-negotiable is fundamental to […]
Top Fire Safety Non-Compliance Issues on Ships: PSC Findings & How to Fix Them
MarineCraft Journal | Maritime Safety Fire safety deficiencies are consistently among the leading causes of detainable PSC findings on ships. The same non-compliances appear repeatedly across vessel types and flag states, engine room housekeeping failures, inoperable detection systems, structural breaches, and fire drills that test paperwork rather than people. Understanding where these gaps occur is […]
