BIMCO’s Tanker Safety Network has warned that known machinery defects, weak maintenance and postponed repairs can lead to serious engine-room fires. Reviewing three real incidents, members said spare-part shortages, short repair windows and schedule pressure often push engineers to delay fixing problems they have already found.
A BIMCO-chaired industry working group has released version 1.0 of two voluntary frameworks, Operational Vessel Data and Vessel Emissions Reporting. They let ship data be captured once and reused for IMO DCS, EU MRV, EU ETS and charter reporting, which could cut the duplicate paperwork that often falls on ship officers.
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