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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.

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.

Paris MoU detention rates keep climbing — 4.18% in 2025. Fire safety, life-saving appliances, ISM, MLC, MARPOL: here are the deficiency families that dominate PSC inspections, their maintenance root causes, a domain-by-domain pre-arrival checklist, and how a maritime CMMS produces the dated evidence a PSCO expects.

STCW certificates, flag State endorsements, medical fitness, MLC 2006 agreements: one expired document is enough to detain a ship. A full map of what to track, the manning matrix, PSC and ISM consequences, and the D-90 / D-60 / D-30 alert process that makes forgetting impossible.

L'objectif du Code ISM est de fournir une norme internationale pour la gestion et l'exploitation sûres des navires ainsi que pour la prévention de la pollution. On vous explique tout sur son fonctionnement dans un court article écrit par nos experts.

The RIF is France's international register, open to commercially operated yachts over 15 metres length overall. This guide covers eligibility, the single-window registration route, EU crew nationality quotas, the tax and social security position, and the Division 242 safety regime. It assumes no prior knowledge of French law.

Many owners start by asking whether the industrial CMMS already running in the group could cover the fleet. It is a fair question with a technical answer: offline operation, fleet asset hierarchy, meter-based triggers, ISM compliance and supply by port call. This article works through each difference, acknowledges what a generic tool does better, and ends with a decision grid.

Cutting vessel maintenance costs is not about buying cheaper parts. It is about no longer paying the premium that unplanned work carries. This article breaks down where the money actually goes — labour, spares, off-hire, express freight, dry docking — and the lever that acts on each, without eroding availability or compliance.

The decision in principle is made; what remains is writing the document you send to vendors. This guide covers the ten areas of a maritime CMMS requirements specification, with requirement wording you can lift straight into your own document. It also gives a section-by-section template and a weighting grid for evaluating the responses.