General Revision Guides

The MCA's new MGN 719 on GNSS jamming and spoofing: which shipboard systems depend on it, what companies and mariners should do,…

North Standard has alerted members to container fires involving UN 3378. What a Class 5.1 oxidiser does in a fire, what to…

What a Master actually does in the minutes and days after an oil pollution incident: SOPEP activation, the real notification chain, containment…

The Workboat Code's new Safety Management System isn't just an owner's paperwork exercise — it changes what you should expect to be…

For Masters and Skippers responsible for getting a vessel through renewal survey under Workboat Code Edition 3: the real deadline rule, what…

IMO's Maritime Safety Committee adopted revised SOLAS V/23 pilot transfer requirements and new performance standards (Res. MSC.576(110)) in June 2025. Entry into…

Paris MoU and Tokyo MoU run a joint Concentrated Inspection Campaign on cargo securing from 1 September to 30 November 2026. Real…

Workboat Code Edition 3, Appendix 5 — the real minimum manning and qualification tables by Area Category (0–6), mandatory training courses, and…

Japan P&I Club's guidance on a rescue boat's uncontrolled fall during a tanker drill, caused by internal winch corrosion that passed every…

A practical mini-guide to CINS' 2025 Guidelines for Shipping Lithium-ion Cells in Containers: UN 3480/3481 classification, the SP188 exemption, packing, stowage category,…

When maintenance records don't follow a vessel through a change of ownership or management, every department inherits risk. A Master, bridge officer,…

The British Tugowners Association, UK Maritime Pilots' Association and Workboat Association have published joint guidance on gog ropes, incorporating MAIB recommendations from…

A worked-example guide to converting between true, magnetic and compass courses and bearings — where variation and deviation actually come from, and…

IMO Resolution MSC.552(108), in force 1 January 2026, adds a new optional grain loading condition that lets bulk carriers skip end-trimming under…

From 8 September 2024, the D-2 standard applies to every BWM Convention vessel capable of fitting a BWTS. Here's what that means…

SCOPIC is a tariff-based alternative to standard salvage compensation, used in over 200 LOF cases since 1999 for payments exceeding USD 300…

Fog forms when air cools to its dewpoint, not at a fixed temperature — a practical mini-guide to dewpoint spread as a…

Management of Change applies to more than major equipment overhauls — a practical test for when an informal workaround actually needed a…

SOLAS V/34 requires a passage plan before every voyage, regardless of route familiarity. A core pre-departure checklist spine, plus scenario-style orals questions…

Lloyd's Register's 'Navigating Nuclear Energy in Maritime' roadmap and three recent design approvals mark real progress on nuclear propulsion — but liability,…

The first hour after cargo or third-party property is found lost or damaged shapes the whole claim. A Master's mini-guide to evidence…

Free surface effect from slack tanks is the most common way a 'stable on paper' loading condition becomes unstable in practice. A…

Thermal runaway in lithium-ion batteries is one of the fastest-growing fire risks at sea. CINS guidelines backed by P&I clubs warn existing…

350 deaths in 30 years. 70 in the last three alone. The IMO replaced its enclosed space entry recommendations in December 2025…