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Date: 2008-02-06
Stamford, Connecticut: A new set of guidelines is now available summing up all the steps necessary to design, create, inspect and repair all types of bonded joints in ships. Cruise ships and other advanced ships such as LNG tankers are increasingly utilising materials that cannot be cost-effectively joined by welding.
With the first Norwegian ships appearing in the East Mediterranean, DNV’s Board of Directors on 16 August 1921 decided to create a representative office in Greece.
DNV has officially opened its office in Ningbo in Zhejiang Province. The office brings the DNV Greater China network to 31 offices in 21 cities.
DNV has signed an extensive frame agreement with the Swedish Defence Material Administration (FMV), covering both classification and technical support for existing surface vessels and future planned newbuildings.
Epaminondas G. E. Embiricos is dissatisfied with the EU politicians’ efforts for European shipping.
“We founded General Maritime in 1997. The company’s growth has been like watching your child grow up and, as a parent – ensuring that he or she gets good grades. Running the company is a very personal matter to us,” says John P. Tavlarios, President and Chief Executive Officer of General Maritime Management LLC. “I have been here since our founder and CEO, Peter Georgiopoulos, started General Maritime.”
DNV has signed an agreement with Cosco, the world’s largest shipowner. Under their Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), DNV will provide services to support Cosco’s sustainable business developments under the United Nations Global Compact.
For truly efficient fuel management, we need to be proactive and take the whole picture into account, writes Per Holmvang, managing director of DNV Petroleum Services.
The first documented sea freight in Greek history took place in 8000 BC from Milos Island to the Peloponnese in South Greece.
In line with DNV tradition, Henrik O. Madsen formally took over as the tenth CEO at the DNV Council meeting that took place at Høvik 8 May. The DNV Council expressed its gratitude to Miklos Konkoly-Thege for his dedication and commitment for two decades, the last four years as CEO.
DNV Research has been a leader in the development of rational, risk-based methods for innovative ship design and approval. It is now active in the EU project SAFEDOR, on risk-based design, operation and regulation.
Epaminondas G.E. Embiricos Chairman of the Greek Shipping Co-operation Committee came to London in 1969, at which time he already had a degree from MIT in Boston. However, the Greek presence in London started a long time before then.
Nordic maritime safety is facing major challenges – both technological ones relating to the activity in Arctic areas – and environmental ones in the Baltic Sea and Northern Europe.
DNV has recently opened a new office in Honolulu, Hawaii, as part of expanding the coverage in the USA.
Houston, Texas: The high cost related to fatigue cracks has for a long time forced the industry to focus on fatigue. In relation to this, DNV will be releasing a new recommended practice ‘Fatigue Method for Offshore Ships’ that will help to control and document the fatigue capacity of offshore ships.
Operation in SOX Emission Control Areas (SECAs) introduces new challenges to ship operators, both with respect to bunker management and voyage planning.
Greek shipping is set to expand. At 190 million dwt, the fleet is larger than ever, and the outlook has never been better.
Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, was launched in April, and is classed by DNV. Royal Caribbean has also ordered Genesis which will be 43% larger in size and also built to DNV class.
A delegation from Union of Greek Shipowners (UGS) on 6 April visited DNV’s Headquarters at Høvik, Oslo, Norway for the first time in recent years.
The Museum of Cultural History in Oslo considers to move the more than 1,000-year-old Viking ships through Oslo to a new museum on the other side of town. DNV assists the museum in preparing a basis for decision making.
