ABS has launched detailed requirements for greener offshore operations in the first sustainability guide to target the offshore industry. Developed by working with major offshore industry clients, the newly-released revised sustainability guide
By Paul Sells at ABS Digital Services The shipping industry is at a crossroads. Global regulatory bodies like the United Nations Global Compact and the IMO have set forth lofty decarbonization goals
Miguel Hernandez, formerly general manager of sales and marketing at MODEC, has been named senior vice president of offshore business development at ABS. In that role he is leading ABS’s global offshore
ABS is supporting a project to build the first offshore supply vessel (OSV) in Malaysia to feature an innovative vessel design and battery system to support more sustainable operations. The next generation
To support the growing development and adoption of smart, autonomous and remote-control functions in the marine and offshore industries, ABS has released an advisory providing best practices for creating and using metadata
The second trailing suction hopper dredge (TSHD) that Conrad Shipyard is to build for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company LLC (GLDD) under a recently-exercised contract option is to be built to
“Carbon capture is going to be a key transformational technology for shipping to achieve net zero emissions by 2050,” said ABS chairman, president and CEO Christopher J. Wiernicki, speaking at the Posidonia
The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has granted its Approval in Principle (AIP) for for a wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) design developed for China Ocean Shipping Company Limited (COSCO) by Friede
What’s the future for offshore service vessels? ABS describes its vision of the next generation of OSVs in a new publication launched at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), which is taking place
Classification society ABS is supporting New York City headquartered McAllister Towing & Transportation with greenhouse gas inventory and sustainability reporting services for its fleet of more than 75 tugboats, crew boats and