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Class News is now named as Maritime News.
Date: 2008-02-06
Structural fire safety of the atrium in Royal Caribbean’s Voyager cruise liners has been a major challenge for DNV and has brought new experience to all parties involved.
DNV is to reorganise its ship class activities by establishing three main ship type sections located at Head Office in Norway, networking with maritime centres worldwide.
All professional organisations need to adapt to changing expectations from their customers and others relying upon their services.
DNV offers new voluntary class notations available to ships embodying measures to reduce environmental consequences.
DNV has passed a significant milestone towards on-line knowledge-sharing by giving customers direct access to information about their ships – on a larger scale and in a new, user-friendly format.
Large acceleration of engines bordering rule requirements are observed. This is one of many conclusions drawn from a joint industry project which DNV has completed with several international manufacturers.
DNV is strengthening its Certification of Materials and Components (CMC) services by making use of a new rating system that measures manufacturers’ ability to make products according to specified requirements.
DNV complements its classification services by assisting owners of older tonnage to predict steel renewals through calculations and maintenance philosophy.
The Erika accident brought shock waves to the industry. Tor-Christian Mathiesen, former head of DNV Classification Services, has some points to make after 37 years in the shipping industry.
The Erika accident is still not technically investigated in full. However, DNV believes it is fair to assume that the main contributors to the accident were high corrosion rates due to the combination of un-coated ballast tanks next to tanks with heated cargo, inadequate tank surveys over a number of years, and consequently no steel renewals when needed. Actions taken by the master to remedy the situation may in fact have had the opposite effect, but the handling of the situation by the crew cannot be said to be the initiating factor. Audits under way by IACS, Malta, France, Italy and the EU will hopefully confirm this picture.
