Maritime Industry Focus

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.

The paper engine log eats time and invites errors, exactly when an inspector asks for a figure. See how Smart Sailors, a marine CMMS built for the sector, turns the engine room logbook into a digital tool that cuts the administrative load on duty engineers and guarantees data integrity for Port State Control audits.

Everything you need to know about the boat logbook: when your flag State makes it mandatory, what a commercial vessel must record under international conventions, the essential entries to make on passage, and how to choose between a paper book, a modern application such as Smart Sailors, or a free template. A complete guide to sailing safely and staying on the right side of the rules.

Discover how to optimise spare parts management for vessels on long voyages. Smart Sailors, a marine CMMS, turns your onboard stock into an intelligent remote warehouse with multi-location tracking, automatic alerts and streamlined purchasing from the ship.

ISM stands for International Safety Management. This complete guide covers the Code end to end: its definition, its origin, the ships it applies to, the Safety Management System, the Designated Person Ashore, the difference between DOC and SMC, and how to handle chapters 9, 10 and 11 — the ones behind most audit findings.

See how to get the most out of your annual haul-out with a marine CMMS. From the hull inspection to the choice of antifouling, this detailed checklist guides you through every check point so you can guarantee complete traceability, keep costs under control and satisfy the compliance requirements of your insurer.