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Date: 2008-02-06
DNV has won the lion’s share of Qatar’s second batch of LNG ship orders. Seven of twelve megacarriers ordered for the Ras Gas III project will be built in Korea to DNV class.
FedEx and DHL are well-known brands associated with trustworthy and efficient shipments of goods. Commercial shipping, on the other hand, the international carriage of cargo in ships, is a transport industry virtually unknown to the public – except when there is an accident.
Backed by India’s booming economy and the introduction of tonnage tax last year, Indian shipowners have embarked on a buying spree.
Shipowners grouped in DNV’s German national committee have argued for the creation of a European coast guard.
In a July 2000 publication, the Bluewater Network singled out large oceangoing vessels as one of the biggest pollution sources in the US. It also stated that the lack of emissions control regulations by the US Environment Protection Agency and international regulatory bodies had resulted in ships becoming a top discharger of nitrogen and sulphur oxides in the world.
The UK-based Graig Group has extended its successful series of new design Diamond 53 double-hull 53,000 dwt handymax bulkers into India.
DNV celebrated 25 years in the Middle East in 2002 and is therefore well established in the region. In the past four years, we have streamlined the operations, with a high focus on financial and quality operations. This has become even more important now that the Indian subcontinent has been included in our expanded region.
K M Sheth, the executive chairman of Great Eastern Shipping, was recently presented with the Varuna Award by the National Maritime Day Celebration Committee in recognition of his “distinguished and outstanding contribution to the development and growth of the Indian shipping industry.”
MAN B&W Diesel is closely cooperating with major Korean shipyards, Samsung, Daewoo and Hyundai, on the use of ME-GI engines for LNG carriers. Work is now being finalised on the Hazid/Hazop safety study for the entire gas supply system from LNG tanks including vapouriser gas compressors and oxidisers, as well as internal gas system on the electronically controlled ME-GI dual fuel low-speed MAN B&W diesel engines.
The Korea Shipbuilders’ Association (KOSHIPA) stated a preference for DNV’s Nauticus Hull software, in its review of the IACS common structural rules now being developed for tankers. First released in March, the software has been updated and now supports the second draft of the common structural rules.
Trond Hodne will succeed Peter Bjerager as the DNV Maritime regional manager in Japan from 1 October 2005.
A Panamax size bulk carrier ship with seven cargo holds was chosen by DNV as the benchmark for the sandwich cellular concept. The ship is reinforced with sandwich coaming beams along the hatch openings and has longitudinal steel girders and transverse sandwich cells in the bottom structure, cellular composition of the bulkheads, and a simple sandwich for the deck.
Primorsk Shipping Corporation (Prisco) has ordered two more 104,000 dwt ice classed tankers from Hyundai Heavy Industries.
The performance of DNV-classed vessels in Port State Control (PSC) continues to be one of the world’s best.
Rules for Classification of Ships
A plate or shell type design consisting of two surface plates with a connecting core structure in between is often referred to as a ‘sandwich design’.
Stronger, lighter, and cheaper; sandwich structures of steel and lightweight concrete core retain their overall carrying capability even after multiple cracks have developed. This new concept can mean a quantum leap for shipbuilding.
Ask a member of the general public about shipping and its importance in people’s everyday life, and you will probably meet a wall of silence.
As reported by Motorship, STX Shipbuilding in South Korea has obtained certification for the mock-up of Mark III membrane containment system for LNG carriers from GTT, LR, BV, DNV and KR.
DNV has opened a maritime training academy at Dalian in China to act as a platform for competence building in the shipbuilding and maritime fields.
