Ship Repair & Maintenance

Ship Repair & Maintenance is a window into vessel lifecycle management, focusing on the latest technical advancements, regulatory requirements, and best practices in maintenance and repair operations.

Topics such as condition-based and predictive maintenance, hull integrity, corrosion control and propulsion system overhauls will be explored, in addition to the application of digital tools in maintenance diagnostics and planning. Ship Repair & Maintenance will also follow market trends and the distribution of work across the world.

Ship Repair & Maintenance - 2026 - Edition 2

Living with 10-year-olds

Ship Repair and Maintenance (Newsletter)

By Charlie Bartlett

Edition Issue: Edition 2 Publication Year: 2026 Publication Type: Articles

China Shipping Lines (image: Shutterstock)

Vessel owners of 10-year-old ships are going through a mid-life crisis. To retrofit or not to retrofit, that is the question? Can investments in energy savings be recovered in these not old, but not new ships.

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Shipyard digitalisation gathers pace

Ship Repair and Maintenance (Newsletter)

By Charlie Bartlett

Edition Issue: Edition 2 Publication Year: 2026 Publication Type: Articles

Digitalisation is changing ship repair fast (image: Shutterstock)

The digital age is transforming the ship repair industry as online monitoring and digital twins linked to a burgeoning predictive maintenance regime takes hold.

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Scope 3 is changing emissions calculations

Ship Repair and Maintenance (Newsletter)

By Charlie Bartlett

Edition Issue: Edition 2 Publication Year: 2026 Publication Type: Articles

Charterers demand more to mitigate scope 3 emissions (image: Shutterstock)

Visibility is becoming increasingly critical as charterers must now calculate Scope 3 emissions from their supply chains. Speed optimisation is helping to reduce the total.

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