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Date: 2008-02-06
In the winter of 2002/2003, temperatures fell to a ten year low in the Baltic Sea. These icy conditions, combined with increased tanker traffic, have raised concerns about environmental safety. Oil tankers operating in cold climates, in particular those serving Primosk terminal, create risk management challenges that are far more complex than those faced by tankers operating in warmer climates.
Since 1998, there have been nine serious fires recorded aboard containerships. Fire presents a significant danger to crews, vessels and cargo, of course, and in the case of one vessel, the Hanjin Pennsylvania, resulted in an insurance claim in excess of USD 100 million.
Monitoring the frequency of collisions, groundings or contact damages for the past 20 years, DNV strongly believes that NAUT-AW and NAUT-OC is an additional class notation that shipowners should not operate without.
The new Cunard cruise liner M/S Queen Mary 2 (QM2), nearing completion at Chantiers de l'Atlantique, has recently been on her first sea trial. She is not the first famous Cunard ship on which DNV has had an engagement in noise and vibration performance.
The UK based shipowner Zodiac recently signed a contract for 2+4 Ro-Ro car carriers at Xiamen shipyard in China to DNV class. Together with the Leif Hoegh newbuildings at Daewoo shipyard, the Wilhelmsen order at Mitsubishi and the long car carrier series for Ray Car Carriers Ltd. at Gdynia shipyard, these contracts confirm DNV's strong position in this ship segment.
Following their introduction in January 2000, the class notations CLEAN and CLEAN DESIGN have attracted more than 110 ships. Of these, 70 are now sailing with CLEAN class notation. The stricter CLEAN DESIGN notation has attracted 10 vessels, of which eight are sailing. The ships are of all types and sizes, ranging from supply vessels to passenger and ro-ro vessels through to ULCCs.
Following recent new EU requirements, Paris MOU officers have been given password-protected access to non-overdue conditions of DNV classed vessels.
A high speed car ferry with passengers onboard was on its way to port when a fire was detected in the port auxiliary engine room (picture 1). The fire was effectively extinguished by the ship's water fog system within 5-10 minutes. Extent of damage
From the 49th session of the Maritime Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) the following was reported: Note, this information is edited and supplied for guidance and awareness only.
DNV, together with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering and MAN B&W, has successfully carried out a R&D project on the effect of hull flexibility on shaft alignment. The aim of the project was to close the gap between analysis of shaft alignment and real life shaft alignment by increasing the knowledge of several critical design parameters.
Bulkcarriers Paper presented at DNV's bulkcarrier forum in London on 7 May 2003
Sweden's Stena Bulk has contracted with Hyundai for two 116,000-dwt ice-class tankers.
As the clock and calendar turn, the 1st July 2004 deadline set by IMO for the introduction of the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code under SOLAS Chapter XI-2 closes in. The task agenda is demanding. Yet for the most part, the shipping side of the maritime community is expected to meet ISPS certification requirements by next July.
A new study of all DNV-classed vessels of 6,000grt and above clearly shows the safety value of additional Class Notations.
