The Report Magazine

The 136-page September 2025 Report magazine – edition 113 – is available to read in pdf and/or eReader formats.

Highlights of edition 113 include:
– Navigating the Risks: Lithium-ion batteries, electric vehicles, and fire safety in the maritime industry
– From paper to pixels: The digital evolution of marina design
– When can an insurer deny a claim
– Rotten wood and poor inspection caused historic Maine schooner dismasting
– ABYC examines the 48-volt boat
– Technical inspection of pleasure boats in France: a sea snake between feasibility and acceptability?
– Enhanced safety regulations could advance maritime electrification

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The 148-page March 2025 Report magazine – edition 111 – is available to read in pdf and/or eReader formats.

Highlights of edition 111 include:
– Lithium-ion batteries: a growing risk for yacht fires?
– SubChapter M Towboat Rules – Six Years On
– Safety and Leadership: The two important pillars of maritime excellence
– Over one third of ballast water treatment systems fail PSC inspections
– Inland waterways craft and the vagaries of conflicting regulations
– How to identify false readings of exhaust monitoring equipment
– The risks and benefits of AI translations in safety-critical industries
– The safety debate after the 2024 Sydney to Hobart tragedy

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The 148-page December 2024 Report magazine – edition 110 – is available to read in pdf or eReader formats.

Highlights of edition 110 include:
– Artificial Intelligence is your skipper
– Bad ladders are a major issue for marine pilot safety
– How a Navy doctor revolutionized high-speed boat safety
– Professional salvors keep marine trade flowing
– Stabiliser systems – which is better?
– Small craft sector must inform and educate customers of dangers to avoid passenger injury says MAIB
– The Hague Rules: 100 years old and still standing
– Understanding effective risk assessment

Read the December 2024 Report Magazine online in e-Reader format or in downloadable pdf format: Report Magazine December 2024

The 148-page September 2024 Report magazine – edition 109 – is available to read in pdf or eReader formats.

Highlights of edition 109 include:
– Preventative and predictive methods for torsional vibration
– Spotlight on the Italian boating industry
– All new ships to be built without a stern tube?
– How well do you know your lifeboat?
– Tassie: The Wooden Boat Capital of Australia
– Fire safety is crucial and must be treated as such
– Wind turbine recycling: Could this provide a glimmer of hope for millions of end-of-life boats?
– Insurance considerations in the MV DALI and Francis Scott Key Bridge Incident

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The 144-page June 2024 Report magazine – edition 108 – is available to read in pdf or eReader formats.

Highlights of edition 108 include:
– MIC corrosion from a surveyor’s point of view
– Using specialists as part of a superyacht survey
– Know the value of your work
– The Hot Dock: Corrosion in Marinas
– Personal locator devices can save lives
– High waves. High claims
– 10 Golden Safety Rules to live by launched
– Marine lifting operations (Part 1)
– To whom do professionals owe a duty of care?

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The 132-page March 2024 Report magazine – edition 107 – is available to read in pdf or eReader formats.

Highlights of edition 107 include:
– Transporting lithium-ion batteries: identifying and addressing the risks
– Coal cargoes: Avoiding explosion and self-heating
– Things a survey can’t find
– The birth and history of motorboating
– Marine insurance in an increasingly volatile world
– Tips for effective cargo hold cleaning
– Do you know when fire protection systems onboard should be inspected?
– Saving the Panama Canal will take years and cost billions
– Surveying a future beyond Lloyds Register with Iain Wilson

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The 144-page December 2023 Report magazine – edition 106 – is available to read in pdf or eReader formats.

– What a small craft surveyor should inspect
– The dangers and challenges of lithium-ion batteries and fires: What we have learnt and know now
– Wind power developments for sailing boats into headwinds
– Safe working conditions remain an issue on board vessels visiting Australia
– Supramax detention in Immingham Port: A PSC case study
– Rules for expert witnesses
– Cargo packing matters: Amended Dangerous Goods regulation are mandatory from January 2024
– On the subject of Orca attacks
– With each passing year: A review of IIMS activities in 2023

Read the December 2023 Report Magazine online in e-Reader format or in pdf format: Report Magazine December 2023

The 140-page September 2023 Report magazine – edition 105 – is available to read in pdf or eReader formats.

Some of the key features are:
– The Future of AI in Marine Cargo Survey Businesses
– A comprehensive look at the future of yachting
– When the numbers become dangerous: An opinion article by Michael Grey
– The history of ceramic coatings
– The Green and Digital Corridors
– Bills of lading: Basic concepts and issues
– How digitisation can enhance safety and contribute towards a greener future
– Mounting calls for leisure marine sector legislation on overboard discharge

Read the September 2023 Report Magazine online in e-Reader format or in pdf format: Report Magazine September 2023.

The 144-page June 2023 Report magazine – edition 104 – has been published and can be read in pdf or eReader formats.

Some of the key features are:
– Safety tips for handling energy sources onboard
– New AMSA report raises concerns about the alarming increase in vessel fires
– The restoration of the 127-year-old large classic yacht Cariad: Marine surveyors in a project management role
– The marine carriage of nurdles will be regulated but how and when is the question
– The Rise of the Super RIB
– Seafarers desperately need training to handle explosive lithium-ion batteries
– A new era in Greek national maritime legislation began on 1 May 2023
– Water Revolution Foundation issues call for superyacht sector to become green faster

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The 132-page March 2023 Report magazine – edition 103 – is available to read.

Some of the key features are:
– Minimum steel thickness for narrowboats: Special feature
– The opportunities and challenges presented by report writing software
– Is lithium-ion the ideal battery?
– State the facts and only the facts in post-incident reporting
– Key trends driving marine insurance claims activity from fire to inflation
– Beware of the danger of in-transit fumigation
– Firefighting at sea – Towards a safe ship concept
– What lessons could be learned by the Suez Canal Authorities from the Ever Given grounding?
– Finding the cracks before they appear

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The 128-page December Report magazine – edition 102 – is available to read.

Some of the key features are:
– Marine Surveyors: Your Life in Their Hands
– Effective and regular vessel maintenance can prevent machinery failures
– Loss prevention measures for the carriage of electrically powered refrigerated containers in cargo holds
– Guidance for the shipment of project and equipment cargoes
– Sustainability Whitepaper LNG as marine fuel
– Parsing the BIMCO emission trading scheme allowances clause
– Containership 2050: When the box becomes the customer
– Total Methane and CO2 Emissions from Liquefied Natural Gas Carrier Ships: The First Primary Measurements
– 2022: The year that went by in a flash

Read the December 2022 Report Magazine online in e-Reader format or in pdf format: Report Magazine December 2022