MARCH 15, 2017 — More than 50 participants, including delegates from major owners, designers, shipyards and ABS technical representatives, provided input at the recent ABS Special Committee Meeting on the class society’s
APRIL 25, 2016 — Clasification society ABS has published two documents to help industry with condition monitoring. The new ABS Guidance Notes on Condition Monitoring Techniques help owners choose appropriate monitoring techniques,
JANUARY 26, 2016 — Lloyd’s Register has made changes in its leadership line-up that see Tom Boardley taking up a new role as Executive VP and Global Head of Corporate & External
JUNE 11, 2015 — In the wake of the June 2013 break up of the five year old MOL Comfort, efforts to improve the safety of large containerships have now seen the
MAY 19, 2015—By the end of this year, the world’s first Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) vessel will go to work in Malaysia’s gas field, some 180 kilometers off of the coast
MARCH 18, 2015—Sheffield, U.K., headquartered Bestobell Marine has received a major new order from Wärtsilä Fuel Gas Handling Division (FGH), to supply the Middle East’s first LNG (liquefied natural gas) fueled harbor
MARCH 6, 2015 — The final report issued in Japan by the Committee on Large Container Ship Safety (CLCSS) concludes that the June 2013 break up of the containership MOL Comfort possibly
MAY 6, 2013 — DNV has restructured its offshore classification rules for Mobile Offshore Units in order to improve transparency and enhance safety. “Our aim is to help the rig owner in
FEBRUARY 13, 2013 – More details are emerging on the two 173,400 cu.m. LNG carriers with LNG-fueled two stroke engines ordered by Teekay LNG Partners from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in
JULY 6, 2012 — While both Germanischer Lloyd and Bureau Veritas have heeded calls to join other classification societies in denying services to sanctioned Iranian shipping companies IRISL and NITC and their
