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Crew Change and the future of shipping streamlining processes

 

By Ilaria Grasso Macola11 Nov 2021

Singapore-based platform Greywing has developed a new technology called Crew Change to help companies make smarter changes around Covid-19 regulations. We profile the technology and look at how it could become fundamental for the future of shipping streamlining processes.

At the end of March 2020, a few weeks after the world went quiet because of Covid-19 lockdowns and travel bans, Nick Clarke – CEO at Singapore-based, Y Combinator-backed, platform Greywing – was talking to a security officer about how to solve shipping security issues in the Gulf of Guinea, when the customer mentioned they were having issues related to Covid-19 and couldn’t perform crewchanges.

Hrishi (Olickel – Greywing’s co-founder and the company’s CTO) and I had a quick chat

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Lawmakers Survey: 94% of Sailors Say ‘Damaging Operational Failures’ Related to Navy Culture, Leadership Problems

ews.usni.org/2021/07/12

 

USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) departs Huntington Ingalls Industries – Ingalls Shipbuilding’s Pascagoula shipyard to conduct comprehensive at-sea testing on Feb. 3, 2020. US Navy Photo

The Navy’s surface warfare community is weighed with a culture that values administrative chores over training to fight, ship commanders that are micromanaged and an aversion to risk, according to a new survey overseen by a retired Navy admiral and Marine general at the behest of a group of Republican lawmakers. That culture was at least partially responsible for a string “of high-profile and damaging operational failures in the Navy’s Surface Warfare community,” the report found.

The study, titled “A Report on the Fighting Culture of the United States Navy Surface Fleet,” surveyed

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Prácticos.South Australian ports take additional pilot ladder precautions

 

 
 

From 1 January 2022, Flinders Ports will require visiting vessels and their Masters to take additional safety measures related to pilot ladders.

To remind, it is a requirement by Flinders Ports that “Pilot Boarding” Arrangements for all ports and other areas where Flinders Ports’ pilots and personnel may board a vessel are to be in accordance with the
international regulations.

Due to many incidents involving pilot ladders and man ropes in South Australian ports, and in effort to improve pilot safety, from 1 January 2022 Flinders Ports will require visiting vessels and their Masters to take additional precautions, namely:

  • All Pilot ladders MUST be less than 2 years in age. Pilots and/or visiting port personnel may ask to see pilot ladder construction

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Incendio a bordo del 'Juan Sebastián de Elcano' en el astillero de Navantia en San Fernando

 

 

 

diario de Cádiz

  • El fuego, que parece haberse originado en el pañol de velas, ha sido muy escandaloso al originar una densa columna de humo aunque no ha tardado en ser controlado 

 
 
 
 

buque-escuela Juan Sebastián de Elcano, que desde el pasado mes de septiembre se encuentra en el astillero de Navantia San Fernando para llevar a cabo su varada reglamentaria. 

Por el momento se desconocen las causas del fuego, que según las primeras informaciones que han trascendido se habría originado en el pañol de velas. No obstante, su alcance -apuntan trabajadores de la factoría- ha sido muy limitado, aunque el incidente ha resultado bastante escandaloso debido a la densa columna de humo

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