What we work on
- Rolling stock and vessel technical documentation
- Operating rules and safety management procedures
- Maintenance and inspection documentation
- Interoperability, certification and classification material
- Crew and driver training documentation
- Emergency and incident procedures
- Signalling, control and interface text
- Tender and infrastructure project documentation
Why this sector is different from other technical work
The crew is multilingual and rotating. Maritime crews in particular are assembled from several nationalities working in a shared operating language that is nobody's first. Documentation translated into a formal register that a fluent native reader would admire can be substantially harder for that crew to use than plainer text. Comprehensibility is a safety property here.
Procedures are performed under pressure. Emergency and incident procedures are consulted in exactly the conditions where ambiguity is least survivable — noise, stress, time. Sequence, conditionality and prohibition have to survive translation intact.
Interoperability is a documentation problem. Cross-border rail operation requires that operating rules, signalling conventions and safety procedures align across jurisdictions and languages. A terminology mismatch between two national versions of the same rule is not a linguistic inconsistency; it is an operational hazard at the border.
Certification and classification documentation is evidence. It is submitted, assessed and archived. Traceability of who verified each language version is part of what is being submitted.
Assets last decades. Rolling stock and vessels outlive several documentation systems and many revisions. Terminology set at the start propagates for the life of the asset.
What we deliver
- Reviewers with transport sector technical background, matched to mode and document type.
- A dedicated safety-language pass: sequence, prohibition, condition, modality, units and quantities, scored at critical severity.
- A comprehensibility check for operational documentation read by multilingual crews, separate from accuracy.
- Terminology held across the document family and across national versions, with cross-version inconsistency reported as a finding in its own right.
- A maintained termbase you own, versioned with the asset documentation.
- Full traceability suitable for certification, classification and audit submission.
Languages where this matters most
German and French for European rolling stock and infrastructure. The Nordic set for Baltic and Scandinavian operation. Southeast Asian languages — Tagalog, Indonesian, Vietnamese — for maritime crewing, where a large share of the world's seafarers are recruited and where the engines are weakest. Chinese, Japanese and Korean for shipbuilding and rolling stock manufacture. Arabic for Gulf infrastructure programmes.