RINA expects to start verifying safety and environmental standards for Iranian ships including oil tankers in a matter of weeks, the classification society has announced.
Reuters reports that RINA signed an agreement this week with Iran’s Asia Classification Society, enabling the Genoa-headquartered group to provide services to Iranian shipping firms.
Under Iranian regulations, international players have to team up with local counterparts when providing cover for Iranian flagged vessels.
“We hope that in a maximum of one month, we should have the first vessels coming into our class,” Paolo Moretti, general manager with RINA’s marine division, told Reuters on Tuesday.
Moretti said RINA was already looking to provide classification cover for Iran’s top tanker operator NITC as well as its leading container and dry cargo shipping group IRISL. Much of IRISL’s fleet is Iranian flagged.
