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New Approach To Bunker

Fuel Sampling

West Sussex-based Kittiwake

Developments Ltd. has developed a new fuel oil bunker sampling sys- tem, featuring: stainless steel con- struction; full type approval from

Lloyd's Register of Shipping; com- pliance with ISO 3170 internation- al standards; ASTM D 4057 and

PSA recommendations; and a com- plementary range of cubitainer and sample bottle kits.

The sampler reportedly provides sufficient quantities of fuel in a single, five-liter disposable con- tainer, to provide for the vessel, bunker supplier, fuel analysis ser- vice and any fuel tests conducted onboard the vessel.

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LR Consolidates Watch Rules

Lloyd's Register (LR) has announced new rules governing navigational arrangements for periodic one-person watch. The new notations, NAV and NAV1, which now form part of LR's Rules and Regulations for the

Classification of Ships, replace the existing notations LNC (A) and

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USCG Rates

Classification Societies

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has created a new rating system to monitor the performance of the world's classification socieites.

The initiative, launched at the request of the Senate

Transportation Appropriations

Subcommittee, is to focus on those organizations which may pose an increased risk to crew safety, the marine environment or U.S. ports.

Points were assigned to each per- formance grouping to be used in conjunction with the USCG's

Boarding Priority Matrix. This matrix allows the USCG to calcu- late the risk of substandard condi- tions aboard a foreign vessel and assign inspection resources accord- ingly. The classification societies with the best performance were given zero points; those with exceedingly low performance were given five points. In addition, clas- sification societies not demonstrat- ing compliance with IMO

Resolution A.739(18) automatical- ly received five points. The 1996 rankings from the USCG are as follows:

Classification Society Ratings

Assigned Zero (O) Points

American Bureau of Shipping (ABS)

DetNorske Veritas (DNV)

Lloyd's Register (LR)

Nippon Kaiji Kokai (NKK)

Assigned One (1) Point

Bureau Veritas (BV) . China Classification Society (CCS)

Germanischer Uoyd (GL)

Korean Register of Shipping (KR)

Registro Italiano Navale (RINA)

Assigned Three (3) Points

Polski Rejestr Statkow (PRS)

Russian Register of Shipping (RS)

Assigned Five (5) Points

Indian Register of Shipping (IRS)

Hellenic Register of Shipping (HR) *AII other classification societies received five points.

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