Interviews

Following in his father’s footsteps, Chief Integrated Rating Ronald Gulliford, embarked on his seagoing career at the tender age of 16. Ronald started off on cargo ships and then advanced to Anchor Handlers and he says that 33 years later, there are few vessel types he hasn’t worked on and this has largely been in South East Asia and his native Australia. Read More

Joseph Day (Master Mariner), who is a Safety Officer on the Bibby Wavemaster 1, shows how you should never give up, even when faced with Chief Officer’s exams! Read More

Competence Management and Competence Assurance is increasingly important from a safety, commercial and legal point of view. Atlas Professionals has been addressing this issue for several years and in March of this year it took the next step in competence management, the Atlas Competence Programme (ACP), which has been developed together with our clients and professionals Read More

“Every day I learn more about the Rambiz. What I like about my job is the diversity. I sail, manoeuvre, anchor, operate cranes, and carry out on board maintenance and occasionally I get to assist the engineers in maintaining the technical installation. After all, being a Chief Officer is a very responsible position”. Read More

In 2017, Solstad Offshore was awarded a subcontract with McDermott for the provision of light construction vessel services. The CSV Normand Reach was deployed to the Ichthys gas field development off the west coast of Australia. We spoke to Managing Director of Solstad Offshore Crewing Services, Odd Skei, to discuss the project. Read More