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CO₂ on Oil Tanker Entry Permits: Safety Requirement or Checklist Overreach?
Inspections are meant to identify risk. They become weaker when they identify wording instead of hazard. During a recent SIRE 2.0 inspection on one tanker…
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Dark Transits in Hormuz: The Illusion of Disappearance
Switching off AIS does not make a tanker invisible. It removes the easiest public identification layer, while leaving the ship exposed to radar, satellites and…
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Fire Wires on Tankers: The Safety Control That Became the Hazard
Fire wires were once treated as tanker safety readiness. Their injury record and limited practical value now raise a harder question: are they control, or…
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The Return of Armed Merchant Shipping
A merchant ship can identify a drone. It can report it, sound the alarm, call the Master, muster the crew, start the fire pump and…
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Airborne Wind Propulsion: The Missing Manual Behind the Fuel-Saving Claim
Airborne kite propulsion offers credible fuel-saving potential, but its real test is launch, recovery, tether safety, crew workload, and operational control at sea.