Maritime Industry Focus

One expired certificate is enough to stop a trip. This guide sets out what a fishing vessel under the Moroccan flag has to carry — safety certificates, fishing licence, crew competencies, catch traceability — and the texts behind them, checked against two independent sources wherever possible. It includes two working tables: the ship's document file, and a twelve-month renewal calendar.

Adopted on 27 June 2025, resolution MSC.581(110) revokes A.1050(27) and recasts the recommendations for enclosed space entry. Two new documents become expected on board: an Enclosed Space Register and a dedicated emergency response plan. This guide sets out the broadened definitions, the atmospheric thresholds, the gas detection equipment required and the update to your safety management system.

Tight turnarounds, zero tolerance for cancellation and safety of life make passenger vessel maintenance a balancing act played out in windows of a few minutes, under SOLAS, the ISM Code and the IMO FAL Convention. Task splitting, sailing-critical equipment, FAL Form 6 lists and counting persons on board, crew handover and the KPIs that matter.

Short trips, small crews, extreme corrosion, critical winches and refrigeration: fishing demands a maintenance approach of its own. Priority equipment, a PMS built around real downtime, long-lead spares, vessel certificates and crew licences, and what the Cape Town Agreement changes in 2027.

On a CTV or an SOV, maintenance does not only protect the vessel: it protects the day rate. Duty cycle, structural fatigue, motion-compensated gangways, weather windows, the traceability charterers demand and the contractual KPIs — a practical guide to protecting the availability of your offshore wind support fleet.

Cosmetic and technical standards, short intervention windows, fast crew turnover, REG Yacht Code and ISM: yachting stacks the constraints. This guide explains how to structure superyacht maintenance with a CMMS — equipment hierarchy, job procedures, spares, certificates, budget — and includes a typical season maintenance plan by system.