Lloyd’s Register (LR) has announced an update to its Rules and Regulations for the Classification of Ships, introducing new technical notations that formalise standards for wind propulsion systems and ergonomic design. The changes, which will be consolidated into the...
Erma First company Metis Cyberspace Technology has received type approval from Bureau Veritas covering the functionality of its solution for monitoring and reporting shaft power limitation (ShaPoLi, or SPL). Said to offer relative simplicity, cost efficiency and...
DNV has become the first class society globally to introduce new class rules for electrical shore connections specifically tailored for tankers, contributing to setting sector norms. The need for new rules on shore power for tankers emerged following amendments to the...
Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, a part of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line) have been granted Approval in Principle (AiP) from the Japanese classification society ClassNK for a ship designed to transport ammonia and...
New vessel designs to carry and store liquified carbon dioxide (LCO2) from Petronas, Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and Shanghai Merchant Ship Design and Research Institute (SDARI) have received approval in principle (AiP) from ABS. Designs for a 96,000m3 LCO2 floating...
Lloyd’s Register (LR) has awarded Type Approval in principle to SeaARCTOS for its emissions monitoring technology Arctos-1, which monitors CO2, methane (CH4) and sulphur dioxide (SO2) exhaust levels with a dedicated sensor attached to a vessel’s exhaust stack....
Bureau Veritas (BV) has awarded Approval in Principle (AiP) to Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), Hyundai Global Service, TotalEnergies Gas & Power, and Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) for wind assisted ship propulsion (WASP) on a VLCC and a LNG carrier. The AiP marks...
Classification society DNV has awarded Viridis Bulk Carriers an Approval in Principle (AiP) for an ammonia fuelled short sea bulk carrier design. As the industry is looking to bend the carbon curve towards zero, green ammonia is considered one of the most promising...
The ‘ALS Ceres’ is the first in a series of six 7,100 TEU container carriers designed by Shanghai Merchant Ship Design and Research Institute (SDARI), which was recently delivered to ABS class by Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC) for Asiatic Lloyd Maritime...
Lloyd’s Register (LR) has awarded Daphne Technology an Approval in Principle (AiP) for its PureMetrics emission monitoring and reporting system, considered to be a key tool for understanding and mitigating emissions resulting from methane slip. Methane slip, where...
Korean Register (KR) has awarded an AIP (Approval in Principle) for a 40,000m3 liquefied carbon dioxide (LCO2) carrier developed by Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) in collaboration with KR. This achievement is the result of a successful collaboration between SHI and...
ABS and Vaholmen VOC Recovery have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) for the development of a pioneering volatile organic compounds (VOC) recovery vessel, to be known as the Vaholmen unit, to capture emissions released during the loading of crude oil cargoes. The...
Korean Register (KR) has granted an Approval in Principle (AiP) for a methanol-fuelled MR tanker, jointly developed by KR, South Korean shipbuilder K Shipbuilding and equipment manufacturer S&SYS . As part of the Joint Development Project (JDP) between the three...
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