A focus on research and development (R&D), continual refinement of technology and greater innovations are increasingly seen as being the tools required to take on the challenges of the global shipping and maritime industry.

ClassNK and Seatrade Gathers Shipping Community in Singapore for Green Technologies Seminar

Transfers of vessels from other classification societies have helped ClassNK pass the 220m gt mark on its register.

Japanese classification society ClassNK has signed an MOU to conduct joint projects in maritime research and environmental protection with the Maria Tsakos Foundation, linked to Greece’s Tsakos Shipping Group.

ClassNK today released the preliminary findings of the investigation into the cause of the MOL Comfort's splitting in half, catching on fire and sinking earlier this year.

Literally within hours of world’s largest classification society opening for business its ceo was making plans to fly to Greece to meet with leaders of the Union of Greek Shipowners (UGS). His mission, to explain the creation of DNV GL Group and...

The ClassNK casualty investigation into the breaking in two, fire, and sinking of the MOL Comfort is taking “longer than expected” to determine the cause of the incident, said the classification society’s executive vice president Toshitomo Matsui.

A ClassNK casualty investigation into the sinking of MOL Comfort has ruled out a structural failure in the upper deck or hatch side coaming.

Three of the sisterships of the MOL Comfort, the boxship that split in two in June, have returned to service after undergoing hull strengthening.

As a shipping journalist it was with some sadness that I read email update number 24 from Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) on the MOL Comfort casualty on Thursday morning. It was the not unexpected news that the fore section of the broken boxship, which had...