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View all entries →The tanker paradox: what 1974 does and does not tell us
Record VLCC orders will deliver in 2028 and 2029. What the 1974 tanker slump does and does not tell us, and what a fleet manager can do in a strong market.
The VDR is only as useful as the bridge team’s trust in it
A voyage data recorder is meant to help investigators, but what a bridge team believes it is for changes how they talk. Four decisions a company controls that decide whether the VDR builds trust or erodes it.
Multiple Inspections: Bane or Boon?
Every inspection looks through its own lens, so the same weakness can appear in several reports and never be seen as one problem. Capt. Nivin Varkey on turning inspection findings into a single picture.
DOSSIER REF. MD-2026-233Nobody thanks the HSE department for the accident that didn’t happen
A quiet HSE department is not an idle one: its work is what makes nothing happen. Why a quiet year is not proof of safety, and why quiet times are when the guard should stay up.
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Five entries that show where Maritime Dossier is coming from: how we think about training, procedures, audits, safety work and incident reporting.
- Safety & OperationsYou can’t train your way out of human error
- Safety & OperationsWhen the whole fleet skips the step, the procedure is the finding
- Safety & OperationsNobody thanks the HSE department for the accident that didn’t happen
- Vetting & AuditsAccept every finding, however small
- Safety & OperationsCLUE: a first look at DNV’s new incident taxonomy
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