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Global Maritime Inc.
Global Maritime is a marine, offshore and engineering consultancy company. Our professional staff of engineers & Master mariners offer specialist maritime expertise to oil and gas, legal, shipping, insurance and ports and harbors clients worldwide.
    USA Texas
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Active Communications International
Active Communications International, Inc. (ACI) is a leader in conference planning and production. With offices in Chicago, London, Montpellier and Milwaukee, we produce world-class events focusing on areas relevant to our served industry segments.
    United Kingdom
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Marine Machinery Association
The Marine Machinery Association is the trade association that serves the interests of the American vendor community to the world's shipyards.
    USA Virginia
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MCU-Coatings
MCU-Coatings is a global leading manufacturer of moisture cured urethane marine, protective and industrial coatings. MCU-Coatings have proven to outperform 2 component epoxy coating and polyurethane paint in many ways.
    Belgium

Stronger Ships

      6/13/2002


New Dredging & Consulting Company
Cutting the Cost of Speed
Comprehensive Waste Handling System

Stronger Ships


Shipowners and regulators want stronger ships. Both want new requirements to apply across the industry - a level playing field. In response, the 10 Members of the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) are progressing technical programmes that will lead to more uniform scantling requirements and wastage limits for bulk carriers, oil tankers and, eventually, other ship types. For bulk carrier newbuildings, a major initiative - concerned with strength and safe operation - consists of new, harmonized design loading conditions and notations so as to provide increased transparency of the operating capabilities and limits of bulk carriers.

Stronger Ships

The new UR (Unified Requirements) provides for additional notations and annotations giving further detailed description of limitations to be observed during operation as a consequence of the loading condition applied during the design in specified cases. In addition, the UR will clarify thegeneral design loading conditions for all notations and specify ballast conditions. This initiative, concerned with newbuildings, complements IACS’ eight-point action plan for existing bulk carriers which, inter alia, accelerates the schedule for strengthening of the foremost cargo hold’s transverse corrugated bulkhead and double bottom, addresses the strength of the side structure in cargo holds, increases requirements for forward hatch covers, requires the installation of improved bulwarks or breakwaters when ships are not fitted with a forecastle and further increases the requirements of the IACS Enhanced Survey Programme earlier in the service life of these ships. Some of the requirements in this package will also apply to new tonnage. For example, in the case of newbuildings, it is expected that forecastles will be required.


 

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