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The Maritime Technologies Forum (MTF) has released a report, which highlights the importance of closing gaps to safely scale operating with alternative fuels and provides recommendations to industry stakeholders toward safe adoption of alternative fuels onboard ships in line with MTF’s purpose.

The International Group of P&I Clubs (IGP&I's) has released a safety animation to help prevent injuries and loss of life during mooring operations.

AMSA will place greater focus on planned maintenance of propulsion and auxiliary equipment and associated systems and will take necessary compliance actions to address any identified areas of concern, Transport Malta highlights.

AMSA issued a Maritime Safety Awareness Bulletin to highlight that a lack of planned maintenance can have a significant impact on the safety of the vessel, people, and the marine environment.

Lack of compliance with procedures is a very common cause of incidents in the shipping industry, often highlighted by official investigation reports. This leads to the expected conclusion that following procedures is a way to stop casualties, so compliance is enforced through the fear of facing consequences.

As more and more ‘official’ documents, such as class and statutory certificates and some flag registry certificates, are in digital format, it makes sense that SMS handling should be in digital format also, argues OneOcean.

Safety and performance are often perceived as conflicting aspects of shipping. In the aftermath of an untoward event, typical safety interventions or fixes bring about more stringent procedures or more procedures, retraining, replacement of people, and changes to work conditions, argue Professor Andy Smith, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, and Dr Romanas Puisa, Thales Group.

The verdict is now out and the sentence issued in the Wakashio incident. The events do not make for comfortable reading; “closing the coast to get a Wi-Fi signal”, “lookout released to attend a birthday party”, master admits to drinking “moderately” , another pristine island’s coastline damaged by pollution and the total loss of a ship. An incident that has cast shame on our industry, writes Capt. Mark Bull, FNI, Principal, Trafalgar Navigation Limited.

The Paris MoU issued its annual PSC report recording a 27% decrease in the number of inspections in 2020: from almost 18,000 in recent years to 13,148. The detention percentage of 2.81% has decreased only slightly (2.96% in 2019) but the number of detentions has decreased significantly from 531 in 2019 to 369 in 2020. 

The road from minimum compliance to performance excellence requires a self-assessing process and reporting. In essence, the DryBMS will demand more involvement from shore side personnel, as its implementation requires a series of evidence to verify scoring.