The current pandemic situation has significantly affected shipping where vessel operators are facing challenges for statutory and regulatory compliance. Cost effective solutions are the ‘need of the hour’ to cater to these challenges in an efficient manner. Various stakeholders such as Flag States, Classification Societies have already taken strides in remote audits/inspections in past and now tanker industry leader OCIMF have commenced taking steps towards remote SIRE inspections with encouraging results.

We have commenced our first step toward this by creating a special cell to assist vessel operators with remote audits and inspections.