Regulation

Bureau Veritas has introduced a new set of requirements for shaft alignment on high powered ships.

The International Maritime Organization has pledged its support to assist with the implementation of a new Code of Conduct concerning the prevention and repression of piracy, armed robbery against ships and illicit…

Preliminary marine casualty statistics for 2012 indicate a somewhat topsy-turvey situation, according to the International Union of Marine Insurance, as Denzil Stuart reports.

US classification society ABS has recently formed an Operational and Environmental Performance department.

Henrik Segercrantz describes a recent study by Germanisher Lloyd on development of windfarm projects, and the requirements for turbines, construction vessels and the support fleet.

On one hand you have Lloyds Register working hard to provide easy to read regulation guides and checklists which, as Nigel Carden of Thomas Miller P&I says “gets rid of some of…

The Liberian Registry says it is time to put an end to the outdated thinking which results in all open registers, irrespective of their safety record, being referred to pejoratively as ‘flags…

Lloyd’s Register has presented Clipper Fleet Management with ISO 50001 certification issued by LRQA, the class society’s provider of independent business assurance.