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Class News is now named as Maritime News.
Date: 2008-02-06
Brazil is living through exciting days. Oil & gas offshore exploration and production growth is a reality backed-up by the oil giant Petrobras’ investments to enable the country to become self-sufficient in oil (in volume) by early 2006 and an exporter in the years to come.
As reported in Lloyd’s List, the first two in a series of four 14,500 dwt vessels that Broström has ordered from Nanjing’s Jinling yard in China, these D-class ships will join the company’s northern European operations for oil and chemical transportation.
Swedish owner Broström is breaking ground with the first tanker newbuild with environmental class notation
A milestone event of the Malaysian Maritime Academy (ALAM) is the series of verifications under the aegis of DNV SeaSkill, which has lead to the award of a DNV MET Certificate in accordance with the requirements of the DNV Standard for Certification of Maritime Academies.
Recent tests by DNV Petroleum Services (DNVPS) in Singapore have shown aluminium and silicon levels to be off specifications.
The first ever training course for the new common structural rules was delivered successfully to 30 participants from 14 companies from the Chinese shipbuilding industry at the DNV Academy in Shanghai. The training was performed using the Nauticus Hull software suite facilitating hands-on testing of the new rules.
As the maritime security envelope merges into an ever-expanding general transport security world, shipping is under increasing pressure to lead the way of technological and operational security developments.
In a bold move to revitalise the dormant Brazilian shipping industry, state-owned Transpetro is ordering 42 vessels to be built in Brazil. But talk of a bonanza is coupled with doubt. Here, key players share their different perspectives on how the optimism can be justified.
Based on the next generation of CAD technologies, the new 3D information system from DNV Software enables faster contract and classification design
The IMO’s Sub-Committee on Stability, Load Lines and Fishing Vessel Safety (SLF) continues its work to improve international regulations.
DNV has performed the world’s first certification of ship superintendents when it recently certified four NYK superintendents. The event marks the launch of DNV’s new service line on personnel certification in the shipping industry.
