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Date: 2008-02-06
Ship classification is a life-cycle involvement in collecting, analysing and disseminating information. The expectations from the shipping industry of class being a reliable provider of vital information is, and has always been, high.
US Coast Guard (USCG) is using DNV to perform advanced ISM training of their auditors. The course covers ISM, Internal Audits and STCW-95 amendments, implementation and enforcement.
Leading shipping operators have come to recognise that Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) can be a significant contributor to improved ship maintenance.
When asked about the Product Model, this is what they had to say:
Operators of offshore support vessels are now recognising DNV’s additional Class Notations Clean/Clean Design and Comfort, aimed at improving working conditions onboard.
The propeller-design company Otto Piening GmbH in Germany emphasises the importance of reducing approval times for drawings to improve and speed-up production of thruster propellers.
The updated Nauticus Product Model (NPM) includes advanced search tools which give access to an expanded scope of information.
During the past five years DNV has enjoyed rapid penetration into the traditional Greek shipping market by changing the scope of classification.
‘The core of our business is to produce good and reliable hull structures, ’ says Hochung Kim, Vice President of the Basic Design Division at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in Seoul. ‘Many yards focus on cost reductions, and this is important, but the efficiency and quality of the design is much more important for us. It has to do with good engineering and reliable tools for design and analysis.’
Flexible use of survey arrangements for machinery surveys can simplify class surveys and reduce costs. A flexible solution can be to make use of a Planned Maintenance System (PMS).
The inability to develop legal frameworks for ballast water and ship recycling has led to some states taking the matter into their own hands by introducing particular requirements. It is time for international regulations to come into force.
Advanced 3D graphic models are catching up on shipping. The old way of calculating hull steel replacement by making use of drawings is being replaced by three-dimensional visualisation of hull structure. It calculates exactly the selected area within a matter of minutes. Can shipping afford to ignore it?
