ABS Chairman and CEO Christopher J Wiernicki has announced that he will step down as Chairman and CEO and retire at the end of 2025, after 14 years at the helm of ABS. Wiernicki said: “We have faced many challenges during my tenure, including the pandemic, the marine...
Bureau Veritas (BV) has delivered an Approval in Principle (AiP) to InfraCore Company for its design, modelling, production and testing of a full glass fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP) rudder flap for an 18,500 TEU container ship. The certificate was delivered as...
ABS has published a whitepaper proposing a goal-based framework for future rules to enable autonomous vessel operations, setting out 10 goals to create a framework for the design and operation of autonomous vessels and addressing key issues in implementation. The ABS...
Christopher J Wiernicki, ABS Chairman, President, and CEO, has told the American Hydrogen Forum that: “Transportation and safety, as well as standards and regulation, are going to be nothing short of boundary conditions in this energy transition.” Wiernicki continued:...
Classification Society ClassNK will calculate the CO2 emissions from the ships to be financed under a Sustainability-Linked Loan provided by Orix Corporation. The ship finance agreement signed between Orix and a shipowner in Hong Kong is a sustainability-linked loan....
As shipowners navigate an ever more complex regulatory environment, ABS has appointed specialist Stamatis Fradelos as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs. Fradelos, who returns to ABS’ Athens office, where he was previously Business Director and member of the IACS...
The world's first ammonia-fuel ready vessel in the world, the ABS-classed Suezmax tanker 'Kriti Future', has been delivered to owner Avin International, flying the Greek Flag. The landmark 274m-long vessel was built by New Times Shipbuilding (NTS). Currently...
The Korean Register (KR) has developed new ‘Guidance for Underwater Radiated Noise’ which it says will help protect marine ecosystems by reducing noise from ships. As ships’ size and speed increases to handle high volumes of seaborne trade so underwater radiated noise...
The Korean Register (KR) has awarded Approval in Principle (AiP) to Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Panasia for the ‘Onboard Carbon Capture and Storage System (CCS)’, an eco-friendly technology which captures CO2 emitted in the exhaust gases generated from the...
A pioneering joint development project (JDP) between ABS and Nakilat - Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM) is to examine how techniques developed by ABS for its programme of remote in-service vessel surveys can be applied to surveys and inspections in the shipyard....
American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has granted Approval in Principle (AIP) to a coordinated design for a wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) in conjunction with the innovative BargeRack feeder barge system by Friede and Goldman (F&G). The design enables the...
Indian Register of Shipping (IRS) has recently classed a 100-passenger battery hybrid powered catamaran ferry, ‘Water Metro-01', the first in a series of 23 such vessels being built by Cochin Shipyard (CSL). The 24.8m ferry, designed for fast shore charging, is...
DNV is to lead an ammonia bunkering safety study by the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD) in Singapore, which aims to define a robust set of safety guidelines and operational envelopes that will establish the basis of a regulatory sandbox for ammonia...
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