Local content is usually described as a policy objective. On a live project it behaves as something far more concrete: a set of conditions determining which companies may bid at all, and who they are permitted to put on the job. By MarineCraft Journal · 10 September 2026 · 9 mins read … Read more
A dropped spanner from thirty metres carries roughly the energy of a small car at walking pace. Offshore lifting has more paperwork around it than almost any other routine task, and the reason is that the failure mode is measured in fatalities rather than delays. By MarineCraft Journal · 7 September 2026 … Read more
Enclosed space entry kills experienced seafarers every year, and it kills the people who go in after them. The procedures that prevent it are well established and widely documented. They fail in the same handful of ways, and every one of those ways is visible to an auditor beforehand. By MarineCraft Journal … Read more
The hard part of staffing an offshore scope is rarely finding people who can do the work. It is finding people whose certificates prove they can, are valid in the right jurisdiction, and are not about to expire halfway through the rotation. By MarineCraft Journal · 21 August 2026 · 9 mins … Read more
The offshore safety officer role sits on a stack of separate qualifications: a statutory appointment, a professional safety certification, survival training, and medical fitness. Each comes from a different body, and a gap in any one keeps the person on the beach. By MarineCraft Journal · 21 August 2026 · 9 mins … Read more
Flying a drone legally and being accepted to inspect an asset are two different permissions, granted by two different authorities. Pilots who hold only the first keep discovering, at the gate, that it was never the qualification the job required. By MarineCraft Journal · 21 August 2026 · 9 mins read Two … Read more
