BV delivers AiP to 1,800 TEU wind sails container ship
NewsBureau Veritas has delivered an Approval in Principle (AiP) to Zéphyr & Borée for its first open-top 1,800 TEU containership, demonstratin...
Bureau Veritas guidelines for transporting containers in bulk carriers
NewsThe global testing, inspection, and certification organisation has developed a formalised approach to support the safe carriage of container...
Bureau Veritas launches Supply-R
NewsSupply-R is designed to enhance supply chain resilience, with improved responsiveness and reliability...
Real-time STS communications for port call optimisation
NewsHamburg Vessel Coordination Center, Wärtsilä and Carnival Cruises have achieved real-time data exchange between ship and port...
BV to class CMA CGM’s LNG fuelled ULCVs
NewsBureau Veritas (BV) has been awarded the contract to classify CMA CGM’s new LNG-powered 22,000 TEU containerships...
BV registers RIMS drone surveyor
NewsRobotics In Maintenance Strategies BV (RIMS) has become the first company to receive an attestation from Bureau Veritas (BV) Marine & Offsho...
BV, Ascenz ship performance agreement
NewsBureau Veritas and Ascenz are joining forces with a ship performance agreement...
New BV rules for hybrid vessels
NewsWith a growing number of hybrid vessels entering service, Bureau Veritas has consolidated come up with a new series of notations and rules a...
LNG-powered container ship
NewsBureau Veritas has announced that it is to class the first container ship to be converted to run on LNG fuel, a 1,036 TEU ship, WES AMELIE, ...
Battery management from Bureau Veritas
NewsBureau Veritas has released a new international guide to enhance the safety of battery management systems (BMS). “The goal is to help indu...
LNG bunkering barge
NewsBureau Veritas has been chosen to class the LNG bunkering vessel to be built at Hanjin Heavy Industries in Korea, under an agreement between...
BV launches LASHING WW
NewsBureau Veritas has launched a voluntary notation for containerships that it says "optimises container stowage and lashing"...
SOGET POS for Abidjan
NewsA French consortium will supply a new port operating system to the Ivory Coast port...
Ro-ro operators fume over sulphur rules
NewsShip operators are increasingly concerned over the new European rules to limit the sulpur content in fuel as a means to reduce emissions in ...
A new focus on operational efficiency
NewsLeading classification society Bureau Veritas says continuing pressure on environmental emissions, coupled with rising oil prices, puts a ne...