A protective coating on a structure is inspected. A lining inside a tank is tested, electrically, across every square metre of its surface. That difference decides how the work is scoped, who is in the vessel, and what happens when the result comes back positive. By MarineCraft Journal · 13 October 2026 … Read more
When a coating fails early, the paint gets the blame. Most of the time the cause was settled before the first coat went on, in a blast that met one of three requirements and was assumed to have met all three. By MarineCraft Journal · 5 October 2026 · 9 mins read … Read more
Both terms get used as though they meant the same thing, usually by people commissioning one and receiving the other. They sit on different standards, belong at different points in a project, and produce different documents. Getting the choice wrong wastes the study. By MarineCraft Journal · 2 October 2026 · 9 … Read more
When a container ship burns, the investigation usually ends at a document rather than at the firefighting equipment. A box declared as machinery parts was stowed as machinery parts, and nothing about the ship’s arrangements was designed for what was actually inside it. By MarineCraft Journal · 1 October 2026 · 9 mins … Read more
Painted snap-back zones were meant to show the crew where not to stand. The problem is that the paint describes an estimate, on a deck where a parting line can reach almost anywhere, and standing outside the lines feels a great deal safer than it is. By MarineCraft Journal · 30 September 2026 … Read more
A cargo that looked dry and granular at the loading berth can behave as a liquid a few days into the voyage. When it does, the ship can capsize before anyone reaches a lifeboat, and the loading ports where it happens most are on Malaysia’s doorstep. By MarineCraft Journal · 29 September 2026 … Read more
