Currently, you must first select the ship, then click on that ship again in the ship tool bar that appears in order to make the order menu bar appear to give a command. Although this is long winded I can see the necessity of this approach when you have mutiple ships/fleets at a location that you want to issue different orders to from the ship menu bar. BUT if there is only 1 ship or fleet present cannot the orders menu bar appear without the need to select the ship again from the ship tool bar?
Maybe the order menu could pop up too when you move your mouse over a ship in the tool bar, rather than have to click on orders first. Whatever you can do to make it feel less clunky is welcomed.