Focus on common structural rules.
The newsletter is published three times a year and can be read online by navigating on the left menu.Date: 2008-02-06
Common Structural Rules for Tankers – their application and implementation
On 15 January of this year, the new IACS CSR for Oil Tankers were published, marking the end of a four-year-long development project of unprecedented magnitude within IACS.
Unique software and expertise for the new CSR for Tankers
In January this year, DNV was the first Classification Society to launch complete software support for the Common Structural Rules (CSR) for double-hull oil tankers, only three weeks after the Rules were adopted by the Council of the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS).
New CSR supertanker: China’s largest tankers to be classed by DNV
DNV has been selected to class two new supertankers for Bergesen World-Wide Shipping (BW). The tankers will be the largest tankers ever built in China, and the first set of VLCCs (Very Large Crude Carriers) built there in compliance with the new Common Structural Rules (CSR).
Broström: Bro Deliverer – Ship of the Year
“D stands for distribution, and the new D-Class design is our own. We have ordered four vessels – product and chemical tankers, being built at Jinling Shipyard in China to this design. The Lloyd’s List Ship of the Year, the Bro Deliverer, will be delivered in April 2006,” says Tore Angervall, the Managing Director of Broström Tankers AB.
New DNV class notations for Cold Climates: WINTERIZED (–xx) and WINTERIZED ARCTIC (–xx)
Established (e.g. Baltic) ice class rules basically cover the ice strengthening of hulls, rudders/rudder stock and shafts/propellers and requirements for additional main engine output. However much more is needed for safe and reliable ship operations in cold climates. Particularly when moving into Arctic and other harsh cold-climate regions, the need for additional standards is obvious.
Stena Arctica: Committed to Russia
Some ice and ice slush is flowing down the River Göta in Gothenburg, Sweden. Most appropriate for the topic of the day: the DNV ice-classed tanker Stena Arctica, owned by Stena Bulk and trading between Sweden and Russia. The River Göta flows into the North Sea in Gothenburg, right past the offices and headquarters of Stena Bulk, where we are very well received by Ulf G. Ryder, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Stena Bulk.
Arcadia: A young company with the youngest tanker fleet in the world
Greek-flagged, Greek-owned, Greek-managed and a Greek crew. Arcadia represents top of the line Greek shipowners running a professional operation from an office location in central Athens.
Snøhvit gas field off the coast of Northern Norway: A pioneering project, opening up LNG trade in Arctic waters
The Snøhvit field, located at 71 degrees north, will supply gas to the first LNG plant in the Barents Sea. The Snøhvit LNG carriers are specified and built for operation in the toughest LNG trade so far and are the highest specified gas carriers in the world.
