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RINA Services recently awarded Carnival Maritime GmbH ISO 14001 and BS OHSAS 18001 certificates. Now the Carnival Maritime office in Hamburg as well as 26 ships in Carnival Maritime’s fleet have been awarded environmental management and safety management certifications.

In response to the EU masterplan and the increased interest in the use of LNG as a fuel, RINA has launched the company’s “Gas Centre of Excellence” . This important initiative will gather together the experience from RINA’s gas experts across the group including D’Appolonia, CSM, RINA Services.

In line with the growing interest in green recycling, RINA Services recently awarded its first ISO 30000:2009 certificate and HKC Statement of Compliance (SoC) in Alang, India to Shubh Arya Steel, on 28th April 2016.

RINA Services and the Asian Classification Society (ACS) has classified the first two general cargo ships at 15,000 GT owned by IRISL, a major shipping company in Iran.

RINA offers a new environmental notation for the development of the Salvage Friendly features of the ship. The ''DORS'' notation (Dedicated Oil Recovery System) has been the fruit of a long process of analysis of the ship life cycle up to the accident risks and linked environmental consequences.

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.

RINA’s R&D/Innovation Centre will boost the research and innovation activities of RINA worldwide and will explore further research opportunities in Greece and Cyprus, in close cooperation with the strong maritime community in the region.

RINA Services has launched a new Competence Management System certification which helps ship owners and managers to raise the skill levels of their crews and shore staff above the basic statutory requirements.

 RINA announced that it has widened its services to the global gas industry. While its traditional classification society arm RINA Services has recently approved a new Compressed Natural Gas carrier to aid the exploitation of marginal fields, the groups’ engineering arm, D’Appolonia, is delivering geotechnical, social and environmental services to the Mozambique LNG development.The gas market and technology are constantly changing, and RINA Services and D’Appolonia lead those changes. The first offshore FSRU, the first FLNG project, the first marine CNG ship and the longest offshore pipeline were all delivered with RINA expertise and assistance.Mozambique LNG projectD’Appolonia has completed a major near shore site investigation for ENI’s Mozambique LNG project. The survey included environmental, geophysical and geotechnical teams, utilizing two jack up platforms, three survey spreads, a mobile field laboratory and over fifty site personnel. Data will be used for design of the marine facilities of the terminal and the landfall for the gas pipeline arriving from the offshore wells. The terminal will consist of gas receiving and processing, liquefaction facilities, cryogenic storage tanks and loadout facilities to export the liquefied gas via tankers.D’Appolonia is also acting as the Independent Environmental and Social Consultant foreseeing the development of offshore production ...

Under the new rules for lifting appliances, RINA has split the requirements for specific crane types