Bad design is making equipment inefficient, unsafe – and, ultimately, expensive. Could HCD be a way to improve the process, asks Captain Aly Elsayed AFNI
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We are a community that is better, stronger and more effective when we work together and when everyone bears their share of the work to be done.
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The charted track can be a powerful tool, but it is possible to become too attached to it. How do you make sure navigators have all the information they need for a complicated port approach – and that it can be easily monitored and challenged if necessary –without overloading them with detail?
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The Nautical Institute is at International Maritime Organization (IMO) Headquarters in London this week for the meeting of the Sub-Committee on Human Element, Training and Watchkeeping (HTW)...
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Performing speed and navigating distance can be affected by several obvious factors like sea state, stoppages and technical issues, deviations, and hull growth.
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Thirty four ports over 11 days makes for a busy round-trip schedule, but that is just the normal routine for the ships that ply the 130-year tradition of the Norwegian coastal route, or Kystruten.
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Warmest greetings to all of our readers across the world. Let me start by saying a huge thank you to all of our members and other seafarers who have been busy serving during the Christmas and New Year period.
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