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RS strategic global expansion plans Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) has opened a Design and Newbuilding Support Centre in the Republic of Korea.The Centre has been established in line with the RS strategic global expansion plans. It will facilitate further development of RS services in the region. The main objectives of the newly established office are:- to foster closer contacts with clients and partners within one time zone; - to provide technical support to RS surveyors involved in newbuilding projects at Korean yards, - to render the full range of RS services in newbuilding for Korean market, including design review, surveys of ships during construction, certification of marine equipment, - to liaise and hold joint seminars with representatives of the Korean maritime industry.The first project of the new Centre is supervision during construction of two LNG carriers for JSC "Sovcomflot" under the recent agreement with STX Offshore & Shipbuilding shipyard (South Korea). Other projects are in the pipeline.The official opening ceremony and evening reception took place on 7 March 2012 in Busan. The ceremony was attended by senior maritime executives, includingMr.Nikolai Grigoriev, Director of Global Shipping & Logistics of Gazprom Global LNG; Mr. Viktor Rokhlin, advisor of JSC "Sovcomflot" ...

For vessels navigating along the European Community inland waterways On 2 February 2012 Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) was officially recognized by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union as a classification society fully meeting the criteria for the relevant work under Directive 2006/87/EC.The Directive establishes the technical requirements to inland waterway vessels for operation on all European inland waterways, including the Rhine. RS started preparation for this activity in advance by performing the necessary measures to improve its Rules for the Classification and Construction of Inland Navigation Ships (for European Inland Waterways) and qualification of surveyors involved in surveys of vessels intended for the carriage of passengers and cargo, including dangerous goods, along European inland waterways.Thus, now RS is officially recognized by European Community as a classification society for both marine and inland waterway vessels.Source: RS

New system of internal documents and tasks management Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) will implement a new system of internal documents and tasks management.In recent years, the number of applications and requests from ship owners to RS has significantly increased. The new system will speed up and simplify the applications and requests processing thus increasing efficiency of information exchange, management and access, as well as minimising its loss. The uniform system will connect the RS divisions in 34 countries.According to the RS first Chief Operating Officer Igor Baranov, "RS annually processes around 60 000 documents. Timely implementation of the corporate document management system will provide reliable and effective document control at all stages and will significantly benefit the RS clients".The first phase of the project implementation includes docflow automatisation in 25 RS branch offices in Europe and Saint Petersburg.Source: Russian Maritime Register of Shipping

An agreement between RS and STX Offshore & Shipbuilding shipyard An agreement between RS and STX Offshore & Shipbuilding shipyard (South Korea) on the classification of two new LNG carriers was signed in late November 2011.RS possesses experience in modern LNG carriers in-service survey, while technical support during design and construction of this type of ships will be provided for the first time. Two LNG carriers of 170 000 cubic metres capacity each will be built to a dual RS/LR class with RS acting as the leading society. The RS class notation: KM (*) Ice2 AUT1 OMBO EPP ANTI-ICE LI CCO ECO-S WINTERIZATION(-30) Gas carrier type 2G (methane).The main task during LNG carriers construction is to ensure the integrity of cargo tanks and to keep to the prescribed temperature (about -163 ºС) of gas being carried in a liquefied condition, taking into account its low density. The dangerous character of cargo permits no design or construction errors. Surveys, therefore, are aimed at monitoring the accuracy of insulation barrier formation and cargo storage system assembly.The specific feature of the newbuildings is a three-fuel diesel-electric propulsion plant allowing the use the LNG carried as fuel. As the RS Director General Mikhail Ayvazov ...

Safe and secure operation of ships is impossible without scientific research The leading scientists and experts or maritime industry will participate in the annual meeting of the RS Scientific and Technical Counsil (STC) Presidium. The STC members will summarize the 2011 research results and prioritize future developments.Mikhail Ayvazov, the RS Director General, will open the meeting. He will sum up the results and highlight prospects of the RS activity.Director of Classification and Development, Chairman of International Association of Classification Societies Pavel Shikhov, will deliver a report on the construction of new ships to the RS class. Currently, the research ship for the Russian Antarctic expedition and power unit for the world's first floating nuclear power plant are under construction to the RS class, as well as the asymmetric icebreaker under then Federal Target Program the design of which is a logical development of double-acting ship concept. The report will also cover promising projects, including construction of two Atlantic-max LNG carriers.Plans for extraction and transportation of energy resources in the RF Arctic regions increase the industry demand for construction of Arctic offshore development facilities and their service fleet. Sergey Balagura, Head of Offshore Oil and Gas Facilities Expertise and Verification Department, ...

Type approval certificate for the RWO ballast water treatment system Classification society Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RMRS) has issued a type approval certificate for the RWO ballast water treatment system CleanBallast.During the international exhibition NEVA in St. Petersburg, Victor V. Grishkin, Senior Principal Surveyor at RMRS, handed over the certificate to RWO. CleanBallast can now be installed on any Russian-flagged vessel. The modular ballast water treatment system can easily be integrated in existing on-board processes and systems and is thus applicable for new builds as well as retrofittings; the components can be arranged to suit the available space and piping layout of ballast water systems.Currently, RWO has 47 CleanBallast units in its order book, and as of end-September 30 CleanBallast installations had been successfully put into operation. The start-up of most of these units took place in China and were tested here with water from the Yang-tze river, one of the most difficult ballast waters in the world.CleanBallast is thus one of the very few ballast water treatment systems that exist not only on paper and is type-certified, but can also demonstrate long-term commercial operation experience - at present with over 33 years of cumulated successful operation in commercial ...

Organized by Russian Maritime Register of Shipping on 12 - 13 October 2011 The XIV International Seminar "Quality Shipping: XXI Century Standard. Maritime Community: Searching for a Balance of Interests" organized by Russian Maritime Register of Shipping will take place in St Petersburg on 12 - 13 October 2011.The Seminar will be held in the gala hall of the Taleon Emperial Hotel, a unique hotel of St. Petersburg to be located in a XVIII century palace. The Taleon Emperial Hotel stands on the intersection of the Moika embankment and the Nevsky Prospect in the heart of the historical and business centre of St. Petersburg (http://www.taleon.ru).The list of speakers will include leading maritime industry specialists: representatives of International Maritime Organization, European Commission, maritime administrations of different states, international associations of shipowners, Port State Control, higher educational institutions.During the Seminar, the reports will be dedicated to ensuring quality shipping through the development and implementation of new standards of safety, air and marine environment protection, including their political and technical aspects, to regional cooperation issues, comprehensive concepts of ship recycling, trends in the development and elaboration of international legislation, etc. The meeting will be traditionally held in friendly atmosphere.RS calls all maritime industry ...

Contracts for cargo control, alarm and automation systems for 31 newbuildings API Marine of Aalborg, Denmark, reports new contracts with two Russian shipyards - JSC Zavod Krasnoe Sormovo and JSC Okskaya Sudoverf - for cargo control, alarm and automation systems for 31 newbuildings.The new ships are two series of river-sea tankers, developed to Russian Maritime Register of Shipping class requirements. Of 6,980dwt, the vessels are designed for transport of crude oil and petroleum products, providing simultaneous transportation of two types of cargo.The scope of supply from API Marine includes full integrated cargo control systems and MasterLoad cargo planning & loading computer systems. Equipment delivery extends until the end of 2013, with the first system scheduled for delivery in October 2011.Source: The Motorship

To resolve issues connected with the current deceit To resolve issues connected with the unlawful issuing of falsified documents by RS former Greek agent, the RS working group delegated to the Maritime Administration of the Republic of Greece has met with officials of MINISTRY OF DEVELOPMENT, COMPETITIVENESS & SHIPPING.The meeting was chaired by Nicos Litinas, Secretary General, and attended by the Ministry top ranking representatives.In the framework of constructive dialogue both sides discussed the issue current state and the ways of solving the matter.The following has been acknowledged during the meeting.Safety of the vessels in question shall not be compromised. Due to the fact that certificates issued by Mr. A. Petridis, RS former Greek agent, are null, the fake certificates shall be replaced to the genuine ones only after full procedure of class assignment is performed without any exemption.RS confirmed its noninvolvement in issuing falsified documents. To assist shipowners performing inland passenger operations who suffered from the above deceit, RS has established a group of surveyors in Greece. All requests received by RS from the Greek shipowners are being processed in due order.The Ministry has requested to open expeditiously a new RS local office in order to address the demand ...