Harbour Master
Harbour Masters
Worldwide there are approximately 3,000 merchant ports and the work of the Harbour Master can vary widely from country to country and from port to port even within the same country.

Marico is an independent marine consultancy company providing solutions for the marine and offshore energy sectors worldwide. Some of the marine consultancy services that we perform are marine risk assessment, marine accident investigation, port consultancy and marine risk management.
Our team of master mariners, marine engineers, naval architects, IT technicians and scientists have extensive experience in all aspects of shipping, navigation systems, marine accident investigation and marine risk assessment.
Our clients include government agencies, flag states, ship owners, charterers, P&I clubs, harbour authorities and leaders in the offshore renewable energy industry.
As part of the marine risk assessment services at Marico we develop successful marine risk and threat management software systems and can provide IT solutions with capability assessment.
In November 2021, the UK will host COP26, the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate…
CHIRP Maritime
There is an introduction to Maritime Confidential Incident Reporting to be found here: www.chirpmaritime.org otherwise known as CHIRP.
Each quarter CHIRP publishes a journal Maritime FEEDBACK, and edition No 64 was issued in August 2021. See here: https://www.chirpmaritime.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/MFB-64-August-2021-72dpi-RGB-for-online.pdf
At the same time CHIRP issued its106-page Annual Digest of Reports and Insight Articles 2020.
This is available for download here: https://www.chirpmaritime.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Annual-digest-2020-72dpi-RGB-online-edition-v4-2.pdf
MAIB
On 1 October the (UK) Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) safety digest 2/2021 was published. This provides a collection of lessons learned from marine accidents and their investigation. This latest collection of cases (volume 2 of 2021) details accidents involving vessels from the merchant, fishing and recreational sectors.