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Improved Strategies for the Maritime Industry to Target Vessels for Inspection and to Select Inspection Priority Areas

Sabine Knapp and
Christiaan Heij

Safety2020, 6(2), 18;https://doi.org/10.3390/safety6020018

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31 March 2020

Inspection authorities such as the Port State Control Memoranda of Understanding use different policies and targeting methods to select vessels for inspections and rely primarily on past inspection outcomes. One of the main goals of inspections is to...

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Analysis of Fleet Management Policies for Offshore Platform Supply Vessels: The Brazilian Case

Igor Girão Peres Vianna,
Paulo Cesar Ribas,
Virgílio José Martins Ferreira Filho and
Irina Gribkovskaia

J. Mar. Sci. Eng.2025, 13(4), 686;https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse13040686

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28 March 2025

Offshore oil and gas activities are crucial in the petroleum industry. Offshore oil and gas installations require different cargo to operate. A heterogeneous fleet of platform supply vessels (PSVs) transports cargo supply to installations. The PSV fl...

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Maritime Robotics and Autonomous Systems Operations: Exploring Pathways for Overcoming International Techno-Regulatory Data Barriers

Tafsir Matin Johansson,
Dimitrios Dalaklis and
Aspasia Pastra

J. Mar. Sci. Eng.2021, 9(6), 594;https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9060594

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30 May 2021

The current regulatory landscape that applies to maritime service robotics, aptly termed as robotics and autonomous systems (RAS), is quite complex. When it comes to patents, there are multifarious considerations in relation to vessel survey, inspect...

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