Recent changes for IMCA CMID and MISW Audits

Being recently approached by a couple of vessel owners and operators who had problems with the acceptance of IMCA reports by their clients.

So far there were no restrictions for surveyors to carry out IMCA CMID and MISW surveys for vessels. However, due to a change of policy at IMCA meanwhile only IMCA accredited vessels inspectors do have access to the new and current IMCA survey templates (version 10) that are not only more comprehensive but also differ in certain aspects with regards to content.

Beside IMCA will soon be switching to online based IMCA reports and the electronic version of IMCA reports (eCMID) will only be accessible by accredited surveyors. IMCA is also working on a digital database where all IMCA vessels beloning or being managed by a company will be listed.

We recommend you to check if the surveyor who will be carrying out the next IMCA on one of your vessels is accredited by IMCA and does have access to the latest version of IMCA survey reports.   

As IMCA CMID Accredited Vessel Inspectors (AVI) we are carrying out CMID and MISW Audits all along the German Baltic and North Sea coast (Rostock, Sassnitz, Wilhelmshaven, etc.), we are regularly in port of Sassnitz but also in Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

Technology transfer from Offshore Oil & Gas to Offshore Wind Industry

Jendrik Odenwald (General Manager, Surveyor) commenting in Renewable Energy World magazine:

"We have been observing the German offshore wind industry since 2009 when the projects got bigger and were springing up like mushrooms due to high financial incentives they received. The dynamic lead to the fact — as we noticed — that the whole industry basically started from scratch. Offshore wind farm operating companies were set up by German Energy supplying companies from nothing. The development and construction of wind turbines and the building of wind farms was so highly specialized and specifically engineered that there was no use for existing vessels or equipment from the oil and gas industry.

The German government’s regulations, decisions and money flow pushed the offshore wind industry into a vacuum that created an urgent need for knowledge, people and vessels and the capacities are there to supply the market sufficiently.

With the current oil and gas crisis it will be interesting to see whether and how oil and gas vessel operators will move into the wind market to compensate for their decreased revenues and how the offshore wind industry will react. This could potentially bring about the first stress test for the most highly financed wind vessel operators."


http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2016/05/the-big-question-day-1-the-big-question-what-opportunities-exist-for-technology-transfer-from-offshore-oil-and-gas-to-the-offshore-wind-industry.html