About AWP Marine Consultancy

To provide customer satisfaction through safe, efficient and professionally unbiased marine consultancy across the globe.

Our handpicked team, with many trained from new recruits and vetted by an OCIMF accredited auditor. Our interview process follows a strict protocol to ensure we have only the top contractors in the industry. All of our team members have to adhere to a minimum qualification and sea experience standard that has been set based on meetings with our clients and OCIMF members.

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Inspector Bulletin and Company Newsletter

We have introduced a specific inspector Bulletin with the purpose of sharing industry practice, situations inspectors can find themselves in, observations, experience and any inspection related feedback. The purpose for this is for continuous improvement in the Marine industry so that we can all benefit from each other's experience as we move forward.

We welcome your feedback and also any experience you wish to share or add in future editions.

Maritime News

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Posted: Oct 22, 2026

Guidance regarding portable and personal CO2 detection

What vessels need for carbon dioxide detection, and what inspectors should expect to see

Since 3 December 2025, MSC.581(110) replaced A.1050(27) as the IMO benchmark for enclosed space entry, and for the first time it named CO2 explicitly such that it is now the de facto industry expectation to have a means to detect CO2 onboard wherever CO2 is a foreseeable hazard, even though the resolution itself is recommendatory.
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Posted: Oct 22, 2026

Enclosed Space Entry - Where it Fails

Main concerns as to what goes wrong with enclosed space entry and what we as inspectors can look for

The facts on the numbers of deaths within enclosed spaces onboard vessels continues to be of immense concern to the industry.
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Posted: Jul 9, 2026

Making Safety Routine: New Onboard Familiarisation Guidance Released

UK Chamber of Shipping

The UK Chamber of Shipping, Nautilus International and the RMT have jointly published new guidance to help shipping companies deliver effective safety familiarisation for seafarers before they begin work on board.
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