Environmental Protection Engineering S.A.(E.P.E.) has become the first Greek company to obtain certification from classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL) as a certified provider of Inventory of Hazardous Materials (IHM) services. E.P.E. becomes one of only a handful of companies worldwide that are able to offer IHM in compliance with the Hong Kong International Convention for [...]
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Herbert Koelman has been announced as the winner of the GL COMPIT Award 2013. The Dutch computer aided design expert was honoured for his paper’s contribution to the promotion of innovative approaches in ship design, at the COMPIT Conference which took place from 15 to 17 April in Cortona, Italy. The jury singled out Dr [...]
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GL Noble Denton has signed a new agreement with BP in a move that will see the independent technical advisor become a preferred supplier of vendor inspection services across BP’s global portfolio of upstream assets. The three-year deal will allow GL Noble Denton to become one of a small number of inspection specialists to assess [...]
The annual GL Hellenic Technical Committee was held in Athens yesterday. The Committee brings together representatives from the Greek maritime community, to hear and discuss presentations from both GL and external experts. This year, GL’s experts provided the Committee members with an update on the latest market trends and shipbuilding technology and examined some key [...]
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A comprehensive programme awaited the attendees at Germanischer Lloyd’s (GL) latest forum in Hamburg. The Forum looked at a broad spectrum of topics concerning container shipping including: stowage and lashing, the potential for LNG vessels and bunkering, trends in the liner markets, high tensile steel and thick materials for ship building, pilotage and manoeuvring XXL [...]
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Seaspan Ship Management Ltd. (Vancouver) one of the leading container vessel managers, has chosen Germanischer Lloyd’s (GL) GL HullManager system to upgrade its in-house hull integrity management system. The condition based monitoring software will be implemented across Seaspan’s entire fleet of 76 vessels over the next several years. “We developed our own temporary Hull Structure [...]
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Classification society Germanischer Lloyd’s ASEAN Committee meeting took place in Singapore, with more than thirty participants from all of the ASEAN member countries. Over the quarter century that has passed since the first meeting a revolution has taken place in the way that communication takes place, yet the Committee remains as ever a forum where [...]
German shipping company NSC Schifffahrtsgesellschaft mbH & Cie. KG (NSC) has decided to implement a Condition Monitoring (CM) survey arrangement on the main diesel engine pistons of 49 GL-classed vessels of its fleet. The arrangement was agreed to at the end of 2012 at NSC’s head office in Hamburg by Heiko Meyer, Managing Director of [...]
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The German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Germanischer Lloyd (GL) have renewed and expanded their strategic innovation cooperation agreement. They have agreed to jointly identify and develop novel technologies and applications for the shipping industry. The agreement will build upon the cooperation of the two partners which began in 2010 with joint projects that aimed at [...]
An agreement has been signed to merge DNV and GL. The new entity will be called DNV GL Group. It will be one of the world’s leading ship classification societies and risk experts in the oil and gas, renewable energy and power sectors, and among the global top three within management system certification. “The merger [...]
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