Trading & Markets 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
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Immersion suits are built to keep a person alive in freezing water. In the warm seas of Southeast Asia, the rules allow some ships to leave them off. That single exemption creates more inspection confusion, and more risk, than almost any other item in the life-saving locker.
ASEAN has no mutual recognition for seafarers. Moving offshore crew into Malaysia runs through flag endorsements, work passes and PETRONAS licensing.
The skilled labour shortage in Southeast Asian shipyards has been building for years. What has changed is the gap between demand and supply has grown wide enough that the industry’s traditional workarounds are no longer adequate. The conversation has shifted from managing a shortage to solving a structural problem.
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 technological responses that operators must understand and act on.
