Insights

Notes from the yard

Field-level writing on docking planning, coatings, hot-work discipline and repair economics — by the engineers who run the projects.

Planning a special survey docking without losing days

How early repair-list clarification, pre-ordered steel and agreed hot-work permits compress a special survey docking by up to a third.

Surface preparation, dew point control and film thickness records matter more to coating life than the paint specification itself.

Gas-freeing, isolation, fire watch and a permit that reflects the real job — the four conditions we never compromise on tanker steel works.

Some steel and machinery work belongs at sea with a riding squad. Here is where the line falls for commercial tonnage.