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CLASSIFICATION (Images Courtesy of DNV GL)

Meet the Future Surveyor

Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, CEO Maritime, DNV GL discusses the future of class

DNV GL is now integrated and fully armed to address the challenges of the day.

Drones for tank inspections? Virtual surveyors? Unmanned ships?

DNV GL leaves no stone unturned in the quest to bring class into the future as

Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, CEO, DNV GL – Maritime, explained to MR in March.

BY GREG TRAUTHWEIN mong classi? cation so- three centuries. It was a little more than ticked, Ørbeck-Nilssen and crew now pressed at the moment, so we, having cieties DNV GL seem- three years ago when it was announced turn attention to battening down the pro- merged two and a half years ago, are in a ingly perpetually pushes that classi? cation societies DNV and GL verbial hatches and riding out the current really good position now,” said Ørbeck- the edge of innovation, would merge into one, and according to market slowdown, all the while planning Nilssen. “In 2013 we had already started

A with a combined Nor- Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, CEO, DNV GL – for and investing in a future that may not to enjoy the synergies of the connection wegian and German pedigree and a cu- Maritime that process is, for all intents provide growth anytime soon. and to take out costs. So we have now mulative maritime experience more than and purposes, completed. With that box “Many of the markets are quite de- created an excellent platform to deliver 38 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • MAY 2016

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