Classification society ClassNK has released amendments to its Rules and Guidance for the survey and construction of steel ships.
According to the company it is constantly revising its Rules and Guidance in order to reflect the latest results from relevant research and development[ds_preview] projects, feedback from damage investigations, requests from industry as well as changes made to relevant international conventions, IACS unified requirements (UR), national regulations, etc.
More specifically, some of the requirements amended this time are amendments related to the incorporation of material factors for high tensile steel into structural strength requirements of floating docks to incorporate research and development results, amendments related to the Intermittent power demand of motors for steering gear power units marking of safe working loads, changes related to the fuel consumption reporting (in response to changes in international conventions, etc. and amendments related to the testing procedures of watertight compartments in response to changes in IACS Unified Requirements.
