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Class News is now named as Maritime News.
Date: 2008-02-06
DNV has secured a second contract to re-evaluate U.S. yards applying to build new Ro-Ro High Speed Light Crafts (HSLC) for operation in Alaska. These yards have already been through a first-bid round where DNV was involved in measuring their capabilities.
The Convention on Ballast Water Management is being prepared for adoption by IMO in 2003. It is likely to be based on a two-tier approach outlined as follows:
DNV has achieved the best half-year result ever making it the market leader with 22% of total new contracts worldwide, and a record class entry growth of almost 3.0 million grt.
‘One of the big challenges facing the tanker industry today is to follow the client’s requirements as to quality,’ says captain Claus Thornberg, managing director of Tschudi & Eitzen Ship Management A/S in Denmark. ‘The oil majors are our clients. They will suffer tremendously if a catastrophe should take place involving their cargo.’
The world is turning ever faster for operators of oil tankers.
The new schedule for phase-out of single-hull tankers has been set by the amendment of Regulation 13G in MARPOL 73/78 Annex I. It has not created a rush of newbuilding orders, but preparedness varies for different tanker segments.
The ability to handle standardised designs imposed by the yards and individual requirements from owners, charterers, operators and authorities, is a balancing act in the contract phase of newbuilding.
Ship type: Tanker for Oil Products Size: 20-30,000 grt Year of build: 1996
The compiled figures for 2000 from the three major port state regimes Tokyo MOU, Paris MOU and USA, confirm DNV is in the top position for the second consecutive year.
Oil leakage hitting hot spots on engines is the major cause of engine-room fires on board ship. According to DNV casualty statistics, more than 60 % of all engine-room fires have been initiated by a hot spot. Fires caused by oil leakage / hot spots are in general more serious than fires caused by other factors.
Oceaneering AS and DNV have entered into a joint venture agreement and established the new company ARGUS RTM AS.
A specific 3D Graphic Model is now offered to shipowners as a powerful newbuilding site management tool to assist owners gain better control of newbuilding projects.
IMO’s Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) has prepared a draft Convention on harmful effects of using Anti- Fouling paints on ships that are to be considered and adopted on the IMO diplomatic conference in October 2001.
