Regulation

Verifavia Shipping and the Korean Register (KR) have been contracted by Zeaborn Ship Management to perform Inventory of Hazardous Materials (IHM) preparation and certification for more than 100 vessels.

A mandatory requirement for national governments to introduce electronic information exchange between ships and ports comes into effect from 8 April 2019.

Classification society ClassNK has developed guidelines to help ship owners comply with the coming sulphur cap in 2020.

Japan has become the tenth state to become a party to the International Maritime Organizations (IMO) Hong Kong convention, the treaty for safe and environmentally sound ship recycling.

The IMO’s 74th Marine Environment Protection Committee is likely to establish a work item around scrubber discharge regulation but work on the work item will begin at PPR 7 in February 2020,…

Leading classification society DNV GL’s CEO - Maritime, Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, stressed the need for maritime safety to be placed at the heart of the industry at an industry event in London on…

MAC, a Bureau Veritas (BV) company and Kongsberg Maritime have successfully tested a new solution for DP system performance and redundancy audits deployed on a Bourbon vessel.

Leading classification society DNV GL announced today that all DNV GL classed vessels will be able to request remote surveys for some inspections through the Veracity data platform.