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Innovation | Safety | Performance

STATUTORY COMPLIANCE FOR TANKERS

DIRECT DAMAGE STABILITY

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TM & CargoMax

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CargoMax systems with the Direct Damage Stability option have been approved by IACS Classifcation

Societies for decades. Meet the new IMO MARPOL, IBC,

BC, GC & IGC requirements for mandatory verifcation instruments onboard new and existing tankers. www.herbert-abs.com further development. Without saying when, Bennett pre- dicted that “the system, with a few minor adjustments, will be ready for market with regards to arctic oil spill response as the standard RotoX is already on the market.”

Today, as in the post-Exxon Valdez and post-Macondo eras, there is a heightened state of awareness about envi- ronmental contamination in the undisturbed Arctic. This new awareness has propelled a quicker pace of research into better and more site-speci