Classification Societies Archives - Page 47 of 47

KR upgrades container securing strength assessment software – SeaTrust-LS

11 October 2018

Korean Register (KR) – an IACS member classification society – has released the latest version of SeaTrust-LS, its container securing strength assessment software. SeaTrust-LS has been significantly enhanced by incorporating KR’s new 2018 guidance for container securing assessment and reflects practical insights and feedback from world-class lashing makers, SEC Bremen and German Lashing Robert Böck GmbH.

Achieving optimum container stowage and arrangement is crucial to the safe operation of a...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/10/11/kr-upgrades-container-securing-strength-assessment-software-seatrust-ls/

Farewell M. Didier Bouttier

5 October 2018

Mr. Didier Bouttier, Senior Vice President, South Europe, Middle East and Africa zone (SEMEA) retired at the end of September. In a distinguished career – spanning 36 years of dedicated service to the Marine & Offshore division of Bureau Veritas – he oversaw significant growth in the company’s portfolio and a significant expansion in the fleet of BV Class vessels in the SEMEA Zone.

Starting in 1982 as a surveyor in the Ships in Service division based in the BV Head Office in Paris he was to...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/10/05/farewell-m-didier-bouttier/

ClassNK releases Guidelines for Vehicles Carrier Structures

5 October 2018

Tokyo – Leading Classification Society ClassNK has released its Guidelines for Vehicles Carrier Structures. The Guidelines specify the technical requirements specifically related to the structural strength assessments of vehicles carriers by using direct calculation.

Vehicles carriers are designed with a minimum number of transverse bulkheads and partial bulkheads in order to increase cargo handling efficiency as well as to permit more vehicles to be loaded on board; this, however, means that...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/10/05/classnk-releases-guidelines-for-vehicles-carrier-structures/

Lloyd’s Register Safety Accelerator Announces Four New Innovation Challenges and Industry Pilots for Safetytech Startups

4 October 2018

Prof Richard Clegg

The latest round of innovation challenges from the Lloyd’s Register Safety Accelerator, ‘Innovation in Detecting Safety Risks in Critical Infrastructure Industries’, offers startups trial funding and partnerships with leading commercial partners: Scorpio, Pacific International Lines, Infratek and Odfjell Drilling.

The Round 2 Innovation Challenges seek digital entrepreneurs with innovative solutions to improve the detection of complex safety hazards and risks in marine,...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/10/04/lloyds-register-safety-accelerator-announces-four-new-innovation-challenges-and-industry-pilots-for-safetytech-startups/

BUREAU VERITAS : Don’t miss out on our New Marine & Offshore Website

3 October 2018

Introducing our new Marine & offshore website

One destination for us & our Clients

Another step into Bureau Veritas digital transformation

Providing unique content, new business opportunities, and better user experience.

https://marine-offshore.bureauveritas.com

Do not hesitate to share this M&O initiative internally and with your clients.
Should you need any support please contact:[email protected]
Your comments are more than welcome.

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/10/03/bureau-veritas-dont-miss-out-on-our-new-marine-offshore-website/

BABCOCK ECOSMRT® receives Lloyd’s Register acknowledgment for ship application

21 September 2018

l to r: David Barrow, LR Commercial Director – Marine & Offshore presents Neale Campbell, Babcock LGE Managing Director RBD approval at Gastech 2018 in Barcelona.

Babcock International, the highly-skilled engineering services company, has been recognised by Lloyd’s Register (LR) as having taken a critical step towards achieving the LR General Approval for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) ship for its innovative ecoSMRT® single mixed refrigeration reliquefaction technology.

Receiving LR Risk Based...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/09/21/babcock-ecosmrt-receives-lloyds-register-acknowledgment-for-ship-application/

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