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MARINE & OFFSHOREBUSINESS REVIEW

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The Group delivers high quality services to help clients meet the growing challenges ofquality, safety, environmental protection and social responsibility.

As a trusted partner, Bureau Veritas offers innovative solutions, that go beyond simplecompliance with regulations and standards, reducing risk, improving performance andpromoting sustainable development.

Through its eight global businesses, Bureau Veritas has developed the industry’s widest arrayof world-class services to clients, wherever they operate.

Bureau Veritas has close to 59,000 employees in around 1,330 offices and laboratories locatedin 140 countries. In 2012, it reported revenue of ¤3.9 billion.

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FOREWORD

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CONTENTS


04 SIZE AND SYNERGY06 KEY POINTS07 NEWBUILDINGS08 MARINE & OFFSHORE NETWORK10 REPORT FROM THE REGIONS16 OPERATIONAL SERVICES18 RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT SHIPPING19 CONSULTANCY & OUTSOURCING

20 MARINE ACTIVITIES22 CONTAINERSHIPS24 OIL TANKERS & CHEMICAL CARRIERS26 GAS CARRIERS28 BULK CARRIERS30 PASSENGER VESSELS32 WARSHIPS33 INLAND SHIPPING

34 OFFSHORE ACTIVITIES36 OFFSHORE UNITS40 MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGY41 R&D OFFSHORE42 CONSULTANCY & OUTSOURCING


uuSize is important in both shipping and offshore markets. It delivers

big benefits for our clients. BV is by avery long way the largest group involvedin ship classification and offshorecertification and verification. That scalegives us financial strength. In a rockymarket without many good prospectsshipowners need to know they aredealing with a solid partner, and offshoreoperators want to deal with a partnerwho can meet all their needs and do itquickly. Bureau Veritas group today hasclose to 59,000 employees, a globalturnover of Euro 3.9bn and is growingsteadily at 15 per cent annually, and hasbeen for more than ten years. That is realsize and strength.

Financial strength gives us the resourcesto support high technology research anddevelopment through a market trough.We invested heavily during 2012 inresearch for offshore and for shipping,and are world leaders in understandinghydrodynamic behaviour of structures.Financial strength means that in 2012 wewere still hiring good people as they shookout of weaker organisations. That gave us

the expertise and the scale of resourcesthat our big offshore energy clients werelooking for for field certification andvalidation of major new projects.

But size does not have to mean distance fromthe client. In our highly globalised industriessize is imperative to deliver customerintimacy. In a global world you have to be bigto appear small everywhere. We have theglobal footprint and the means to support anetwork much denser than anyone else inthe business. So we can be close to ownersand yards wherever they are.

We have also organised ourselves intogeographical zones with their own technicalresources and authority, bringing theexpertise and decision makers closer tothe customers.

Size gives us synergies. Offshore energycan learn from shipping and shipping can

learn from offshore. Together they candrive new projects such as FLNG. Our riskand safety case expertise in offshore isproving its worth in new FLNG projects.That is why in 2012 we grouped ourMarine and Offshore divisions.

Together they class or certify over 10,000ships and almost 900 FPSOs and offshoreunits and deliver a huge range of riskservices and offshore certification,validation and verification of every type forfixed installations, pipelines and subseasystems globally every year.

Offshore energy of all sorts is developingrapidly, pulling in new players, includingshipowners moving into LNG RV. Shipowners,rig owners, offshore energy operators and oil majors all tapped into into Bureau Veritas’expertise during 2012 and got coherentanswers which addressed all aspects of thenew ventures they were embarking on.

SIZE AND SYNERGY

PHILIPPE DONCHE-GAYEXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT BUREAU VERITAS MARINE & OFFSHORE DIVISION

Size does not have to mean distance from the client. In our highly globalised industries size is imperative todeliver customer intimacy. In a global world you haveto be big to appear small everywhere. We have theglobal footprint and the means to support a networkmuch denser than anyone else in the business. So wecan be close to owners and yards wherever they are


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Our offshore expertise and experiencehelped us to convince clients that theycould save money and work moreefficiently by entrusting integratedclassification and verification across entireprojects, pulling all processes and subseaequipment under the same umbrella.

Our shipping teams were helping ownersto achieve energy efficiency and to makethe right choices on future emissioncriteria. That included optimising both

current tonnage, using SEEMP as aplatform, and future tonnage, using CFDmodelling.

We did not forget the human side ofshipping, and we invested heavily inhelping owners to implement the MaritimeLabour Convention in a practical manner.

2012 was a year of many stand-outperformances for Bureau Veritas, butperhaps the most fitting concerned sheersize. The world’s largest container ship,with the world’s lowest emissions per teumile, was built and delivered into operationunder BV class and using BV support forits cutting edge environmental technology.That is what size means in practice. The world’s biggest classification andcertification group and the world’s biggestcontainership together deliver the world’ssmallest environmental footprint.

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s The 16,000 teu CMA CGM Marco Polo is the world’s largestcontainership. It was built to BV class and is the first of three sistervessels which are being built at DSME for CMA CGM. The vessel’seconomy of scale and cutting-edge environmental technologyprovide the lowest environmental impact per container possible.

Bureau Veritas grouptoday has close to 59,000employees, a globalturnover of Euro 3.9bnand is growing steadily at 15 per cent annually,and has been for morethan ten years. That is real size and strength.


uu2012 was a tough year for shipowners,a tough year for shipyards and a year

of pushing technological frontiers foroffshore energy of all types. And it was a yearof paradox. There is less money around inshipping, yet an ever greater demand forvery specialised expertise. Reacting to that,Bureau Veritas has invested a lot to makeexpensive advice and high technology cost-effective and accessible.

• A flood of newbuildings took BV’sclassed fleet to a new record high of over10,000 ships and 91m gt. The averageage of the classed fleet fell again and themarket share in every sector and area ofshipping and offshore held up.

• Owners from around the world entrustedBV with orders for 4.6m gt. At the year-endBV’s global shipbuilding order book stoodat 16.3m gt, with orders for shipownersfrom eighty-five nations to build in fifty-fourdifferent shipbuilding countries. The orderbook covered every sector of shipping, withan especially large share in containershipsand offshore units.

• BV invested heavily in energy-savingtools and consultancy to help both yardsand owners to build fuel efficientdesigns and get the best out of existingtonnage. The first EEDI certificates andSEEMP notations were delivered.

• BV gave approval in principle to anumber of gas-fuelled designsincluding a 14,000 teu containership, a1,000 teu feeder vessel and a passengerferry. It also worked on conversions ofexisting ships to gas fuel.

• The Harmonised Common StructuralRules came a step closer and will beapproved in 2013. BV invested a lot ofsenior expertise and time in theproject, ensuring that it was at theheart of the new rules. That helped itto update its tools and software and totrain shipyard and plan approval teamsto be ready with new CSR-H-compliantdesigns.

• BV simplified its ship certificationsystem, dramatically reducing thepaperwork and workload forshipowners and ship masters, whilereducing the opportunity for mistakesor fraud.

• Extensive work went into ensuringthat Bureau Veritas is ready for theimplementation of the Marine LabourConvention in 2013. Teams of inspectorsare trained up and self-help materialand training courses developed forshipowners.

• The world’s largest containershipentered service in BV class. It can carry

16,000 teu, is highly energy efficient andwill be followed by two sister ships in 2013.

• BV integrated its offshore services forboth fixed and floating installations andbrought all its offshore expertise andrisk services under one management.

• BV provided the first ever integratedclassification and certification for anFPSO, including all the topsides,moorings and subsea installation.

• BV classed an entire FLRSU projectincluding all the process plant, and willissue its notation, PROC, to cover thetopsides process plant.

• Guidance notes were published foroffshore wind farm certification and foroffshore wind farm service vessels.

• Continued major investment in R&Dand an expanded commitment toworking in joint industry and academicpartnerships led to a number oftechnical advances, especially in hydro-structure interaction and ice technology.

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uu2012 offered a glimpse of hope forshipowners in most sectors, and

promised a painful period ahead forshipbuilders everywhere. New orderswere down considerably in 2012, totallingaround 34m gt, almost 2009 levels, anddeliveries also declined from their 2011peak. Although deliveries were still strongat over 93m gt, the tide has turned andthere are fewer ships coming out of theyards. That promises a better balance ofsupply and demand for shipowners, butleaves yards with a problem.

New orders in 2012 were only around onethird of the total available shipyard capacity.Prices for new ships are very low, but aredeemed to have reached a bottom. Somecash rich owners were able to takeadvantage of this, and Greek owners in

particular stepped actively into the LNGcarrier market.

And overall new orders for bulk carriershalved, tanker orders were flat and therewas a drop in orders for post-panamaxcontainer vessels following the surge in 2011.

Against that global panorama BureauVeritas was searching for ways to helpboth yards and owners. There was realgrowing interest in energy efficientdesigns, so BV worked hard to help yardsto design safe and efficient vessels with not only a good EEDI rating, but also goodperformances in all the contemplatedoperating conditions. Yards and ownerswere looking ahead to the Harmonised

Common Structural Rules. Here BV’sinvestment in leading IACS’ work onharmonisation meant that BV’s toolscould be updated and teams deployed tohelp yards be ready for the new rules.

BV’s HOMER software which leads theworld in assessing whipping andspringing effects was in demand from the larger yards which are positioningthemselves for further very largecontainership orders.

And offshore demand was good, especiallyfor floaters for LNG developments andFPSOs. BV has a strong position in FPSOsand LNG movement and processing sowas a leading contender for these units.

Overall the year ended with BV’s total orderbook down on the previous year at 16.3m gt,but against a falling overall total order bookBV more than retained its market share.

New orders for BV-class vessels totalled4.6m gt. Market share was very strong innew orders for containerships, at almosttwenty-five per cent, and for specialisedvessels such as offshore units anddredgers, where BV took over thirty percent of the global total orders.

Owners in France, China, Greece andBrazil lead BV’s newbuilding order book,which includes owners from eighty-fivecountries. These vessels are being builtunder BV supervision in fifty-four countries,led massively by China, where around half of the vessel total by gt is building.Korea, Brazil and Japan are also buildingsubstantial tonnage, followed by France,Turkey and the Philippines.

Overall, Bureau Veritas’ newbuilding picturemirrors that of the world. Which is nosurprise, because it is classing vessels ofevery type, building for owners in everycountry, in every shipyard country in theworld. It is a global shipbuilding business andBureau Veritas is right at the heart of fit.

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NEWBUILDINGSBRUNO DABOUISVICE PRESIDENT, SALES AND MARKETING MANAGEMENT

Bureau Veritas maintained its marketshare by helping both yards and ownerswith a focus on new efficient designs and good tools.

Evolution of the BV orderbook


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JAN SMITSENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, EUROPE, AFRICA AND NORTH AMERICA ZONE

My priority is to deliver our expertise morewidely and effectively. We have a big presencein the North Sea offshore sector forverification and off Africa for floaters. I wantto use that to expand into the Gulf of Mexicoand new markets. Our shipowner market isstable and mature, and my aim is to takewhat we do excellently in one country and rollit out in another, with a strong growth focuson helping more owners in Germany andNorway. Our clients in both shipping andoffshore are facing changing statutoryenvironments and we have to really help with that by studying and understanding the rules and regulations and helping ownersand operators to comply in very practicalmanner. I’m putting in place a morestructured key account management systemso that we can listen better to what our clients need, and that way we can deploy our resources quicker to help them.


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DIDIER BOUTTIERSENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, HELLENIC, BLACK SEA AND MIDDLE EAST ZONE

This zone is rich in shipowners and rich inenergy providing countries. This area alsoincludes Turkey with its powerful shipbuildingcapacity. My priorities are to help theshipowners to manage their fleets effectivelythrough the current depressed market whilehelping those with access to finance to investin opportunities. At the same time we areimproving our services in the offshore energysector, helping get energy to market ascheaply and safely as possible. For our yards,the key priority is to help get new designsready for when the market turns. We have the right people to do this, we have good local plan approval and technical centresand we have very good support from expertsin each area. So we are going to do what BVdoes best, be very personal to each client and give them the best technological supportexactly where they need it.

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big to appear small everywhere. As the largest classification andverification group in the worldBureau Veritas has the globalfootprint and the means tosupport a network much denserthan anyone else in the business.It can be close to owners andyards wherever they are. Sizemeans we can deliver customerintimacy. But size also requiresgood organisation and clear linesof responsibility, so that clients get quick, local decisions made toa global standard. That is why in2012 Bureau Veritas implementeda new geographical structure,dividing the globe into four zones.The move reinforces real authorityclose to the clients.

The North Asia Zone is run fromChina and covers China, Taiwan,Korea and Japan. The South AsiaZone is run from Singapore andcovers the Indian sub-continent,Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia,Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines,Australia and New Zealand. The North Europe, Africa andNorth America zone covers all ofEurope, Scandinavia, Africa andNorth America except for thoseEuropean countries now coveredby the Hellenic, Black Sea andMiddle East zone, which includesGreece, Cyprus, Turkey, CentralAsia and all of the Middle East.


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Our priority is to grow in efficiency along withour clients, and to make our service as hassle-free as possible. That means 100 per centavailability, and we can deliver that becausewe have the resources we need in the region.This region has the bulk of the world’sshipyards and a big sector of the world fleet.We have to deliver technology to them both inthe most cost-conscious way. For the yards akey support issue is helping them to move intonew areas, such as building gas carriers, ultra-large containerships and offshore units. Forthe shipowners we have technical centres ineach country in the zone. We work in a widerange of industrial partnerships which helpsus understand exactly what the clients want. Inthat way we can deliver very tailored services.

MATTHIEU DE TUGNYVICE PRESIDENT, SOUTH ASIA ZONE

We have powerful ship owning and offshore energy companies in this area. My priority is toharness the resources of this new zone and energisethem to serve these diverse customer bases. Thereare two big areas of growth in shipping we need to be right up there with. The first is LNG carriers, the other Offshore Support Vessels. They are bothsophisticated types of vessels and BV’s technologicaledge can really help owners and yards. In theoffshore sector an ageing asset base offshore willrequire BV’s expertise in asset integrity managementand process safety management. We have strongtechnical teams who can deliver that. We also see all our clients moving up a gear in technology,wanting LNG vessels with greater flexibility inloading and discharging, offshore floating unitswith challenging designs and they need veryspecialised and targeted support. We aim to deliverthat by using a customer service model which getsthe right technical profile onto the job as quickly as possible with customised solutions.


NORTH AMERICA uShips ordered by ownersin the United States to BVclass in 2012 included four25,000 dwt bulk carriersbeing built at Wenchong,China. The first of these is due to be delivered in May 2014.In terms of deliveries toowners in the region, OakMaritime in Canada tookpossession of a 91,374 gtbulk carrier from ShanghaiJiangnan in China, whilePrestige in the United Stateswelcomed a 66,172 gtpassenger ship fromFincantieri Navali in Italy. BV in the United States hassigned a contract with a US

shipyard for theclassification of two offshoresupply ships for an overseasowner. The same yard iscurrently seeking quotes for other types of vessel.Activity in Canada,meanwhile, is increasing.The number of Canadianships on the east coast withBV class has increased fromtwo in 2007 to sixteen now.BV is also in discussions to class 22 tugboats. There is newbuilding activityon the east coast, too, withthree research vessels and one ro-ro/ passenger vessel currently underconstruction.

SOUTH AMERICA u Although no new shipswere ordered by owners inSouth America to BV class in2012, six small vessels weredelivered by yards in theregion during the course ofthe year. Damex Shipbuilding &Engineering in Cuba

delivered a 722 gt specialservice vessel for its ownaccount in February, whileETP Engenharia Ltda in Riode Janeiro delivered a 234 gtcrew boat to Brazilianinterests. Also for Brazilianprincipals, the Inace Shipyardat Fortaleza built a 224 gt

yacht which was delivered inJanuary. Meanwhile, three 77 gt pusher barges weredelivered by Asesorias YConstrucciones Navales Ltdato the Panama CanalAuthority in March.The marine classification sector in South America is

a very mature one these days, with the result that BVis currently focusing its main efforts on the offshoremarket, which is currentlyproviding some attractivecontract opportunities.


s In Brazil, BV is currently focusing its mainefforts on the offshore market. On this photo, the semi-submersible drillingunits SS Pantanal and SS Amazonia

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uNew orders for owners in Denmark included three27,500 m3 LNG/LEG carriersfor Evergas, while WisbyTankers in Sweden orderedtwo 30,100 dwt asphaltcarriers from Korea.Trafikverket Färjerederiet,meanwhile, ordered a 58 mdouble-ended ro-pax ferry for Gränna-Visingsö from UkiWorkboat at Uusikaupunki,Finland. Four ships weredelivered to BV class by yardsin Denmark in 2012, includingtwo ro-pax ferries forScandinavian interests builtby Hvide Sande Skibs,Baadebyggeri. Owners inDenmark who took delivery of new tonnage during theyear included LauritzenBulkers, with the handysizebulk carrier Bianco Olivia

Bulker from JiangmenNanyang in China. In Sweden,new deliveries included threeSuezmax tankers from Koreafor Stena, and two 4,657 gtasphalt carriers/oil tankersfor Frederi AB from China. BV Denmark remains busywith containershipclassification and certificationwork for, among others,Maersk and Nedlloyd, while inIceland work continued on the 2,350 gt trawler RevalViking. Other ongoing work inthe region includes the WhiteSmoke Shipping LNG/fuel oil bunker boat project, the EU-financed Fure West LNGpropulsion conversion projectfor Furetank Rederi AB inSweden, and a variety ofMaritime Labour Convention2006-related initiatives.

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We have a bigpresence in theNorth Sea offshore sector for verification and off Africa forfloaters. I want to use that toexpand into the Gulf of Mexico and new markets

JAN SMIT Senior Vice President, Europe, Africa and North America zone

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s Two bulk carriers “Crown 58” were delivered by Sinopacific to Grieg Star

NORWAYuFour ships aggregating10,744 gt were ordered byowners in Norway in 2012 – a cable-laying vessel built by Vard Brattvåg (New namefor STX OSV), a fishing vesseland a live fish carrier, bothbuilt by Celiktrans Deniz inTurkey, and a crew boat.Yards in Norway alsodelivered some vesselsduring the course of the year,including two salvage tugsfor the Algerian governmentbuilt at STX OSV Brattvåg. In addition, a number of shipconversions were carried out.There was also deliveries toNorwegian clients fromforeign yards. Among themtwo bulk carriers “Crown 58”to Grieg Star and two general

cargo ships for Seaworksbuilt at Cemre MarinEndüstri AS. Gain in ships in service work included an agreementto class ten general cargovessels for Kopervik ShipManagement, whileBergshav Management hasnow classed 13 ships with BV - oil/chemical/ producttankers and gas carriers.BV Norway moved to newoffices in May 2012 and isnow located at Grev WedelsPlass in Oslo. It was decidedto centralise BV activities in Norway, with the resultthat all operations are now handled by one entity,providing clients with a single point of contact.

GERMANY & CENTRAL EUROPEu Twenty five BV-classednewbuildings were delivered to German owners in 2012,among them nine vessels ofthe 1,100 teu SSW design builtin China. In total, the BV fleet in Germany reached 300 units. Deliveries from yards inGermany in 2012 included the LNG tanker Coral Energy,built by Meyer Werft forAnthony Veder.Yards in Finland and the BalticStates delivered six vessels to

BV class in 2012, including two inland passenger shipsfrom the Riga Shipyard inLatvia, a research vessel and a double-ended ferry from STX in Rauma. The Riga yardalso secured contracts to build three more inlandpassenger vessels. In Russia, BV was selected(together with RS) as theclassification society for the Yamal LNG project, and carried out a complete

design approval for an80,000 m3 LNG tanker forSovcomflot. It also secured a consultancy contract for a 20,000 m3 LNG tanker.In 2012, Tecnitas CentralEurope was established forconsultancy services. t has secured orders in the offshore wind sector fromSiemens and ABB, and hascarried out risk analyses forLNG terminals, LNG vesselsand vessels using LNG as fuel.


UK & IRELANDu Examples of shipsdelivered in the region duringthe past twelve monthsincluded the 75,000 dwt bulkcarrier Padmini, built byGuangzhou HuangpuShipyard, China, for GraigShip Management. Alsodelivered to Graig from China,this time by Sainty Shipbuilding Yangzhou, was the 82,000 dwt bulk carrier

Sainty Visionary. NorthernMarine Management (NMM),the management arm ofStena Lines, took delivery ofthe 158,000 dwt SuezmaxesStena Supreme and StenaSunrise from Samsung,Korea, in June 2012. These were the last in a series of seven vessels delivered to BV class, five of them managed by NMM.

Meanwhile, EuroshipServices, the managementarm of Cobelfret, took deliveryof three ro-ro cargo ships fromKyokuyo Shipyard Corp in Japan.And Damen Shipyards builtfour small, high-speed supportvessels for MarineCo, andtwo such vessels for MaritimeCraft Services. CAP activitywas healthy in 2012, with workcontinuing for, among others,

Shell, Bernhard Schulte Ship Management, and Anglo-Eastern ShipManagement. BV alsoapproved the NorthernMarine Management (NMM)Training Centre andSimulator, and the NMMtraining courses. Voluntarycertification and gap analysisservices were performed forCMA CGM UK & Norbulk.

BELGIUM & LUXEMBOURGu Four seagoing shipsaggregating 6,417 gt wereordered by owners in the regionin 2012. These comprised twopontoons (3,482 gt and 1,588 gt)built for Antwerp PontoonServices by Santierul NavalConstanta, a 1,212 gt dredgerbuilt at Ravestein BV for Jan de

Nul Ondernemingen NV, and a 2,333 gt inland passengershipbuilt for CroisiEurope atChantier Naval Meuse &Sambre. A total of 22 vesselswere delivered in 2012 forBelgium and Luxembourgowners. These included bulkcarriers, dredgers, tugs and

other vessels for ownerswhich included Jan de NulNV, Dredging & MaritimeManagement, Anglo-Eastern(Antwerp), Antwerp PortAuthority and Geo at Sea,Luxembourg. Major gains inships in service in the regionincluded work on a variety of

ships for a range of principals,including Inok Shipping NV,Jan de Nul, Anglo-EasternShip Management, MultrashipBV, Multratug Bourgas BV,MSC Ship ManagementCyprus, URS Belgie NV,Middle East Dredging Co andExmar Shipmanagement NV.


t The 24,000 dwt rock-dumpingvessel Rockpiper built forBoskalis Offshore by Keppel,Singapore

u A 75m length luxuryexploration vessel wasordered at Piriou shipyard

FRANCEu In 2012, a total of 0.41m gtof new tonnage was orderedby French shipowners. There are also six FREMMfrigates under construction withNaval Defense specialist DCNS.Notable deliveries during the year included the 750-passenger ro-pax Piana forCompagnie Meridionale deNavigation, built at Brodosplit,Croatia, and the passengershipMSC Divina, built by STX StNazaire for MediterraneanShipping Company. Ordersplaced by owners in Pirioushipyards, a 75-meter lengthluxury exploration vessel and a45-meter length Training NavyShip. CMA CGM, meanwhile,took possession of the CMACGM Marco Polo, the first ofthree 16,000 teu containerships.Classification after construction

work included 22 shipsaggregating 161,000 gt,including the seismic researchvessel CGG Symphony ownedby Louis Dreyfus Armateurs, the high-speed aluminium twin-hulled catamaran NormandieExpress owned by BrittanyFerries, and five tugs owned andoperated by Bourbon. Duringthe year, the Bureau VeritasTraining Centre in Marseillesdelivered International SafetyManagement (ISM) AuditorTraining Courses within theframework of the EU-fundedSAFEMED II Project. Sixteendelegates, officials andrepresentatives from eightadministrations in theMediterranean regionparticipated, and were awardedtraining certificates aftersuccessful examination.

uOrders placed by owners in The Netherlands in 2012included four 10,000 gtlivestock carriers to be builtfor Vroon at COSCO and two5,000 gt LNG tankers forAnthony Veder building atAVIC DingHeng in China. Other notable orders includedCoco Yachts’ agreement for seven 2,000-passengerferries from Afai Shipyards in Guangzhou.The Netherlands MarineCluster continues to performwell, with yards in the northof the country buildingvessels under long-termdeals. In the south, Damendominates, with between 200 and 350 vessels buildingor due to be built at variouslocations around the world.Ship deliveries in the

Netherlands in 2012included the 15,600 m3 LNGcarrier Coral Energy forAnthony Veder, and the24,000 dwt rock-dumpingvessel Rockpiper built forBoskalis Offshore by KeppelSingmarine, Singapore. The BV-classed fleet in theNetherlands grew in 2012from 981 to 1,013 vessels.The year was also notablefor the integration of SMIT into Boskalis, and for an increasing number of LNG propulsion andenergy storage projects. BV Netherlands was grantedthe World Wide Certificationfor Vroon for ISM/ISPS/MLC2006 as well asISO9001/14001/OHSAS18001for some 165 vessels and 10 offices.

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SPAIN & PORTUGAL uOwners in Spain andPortugal ordered seventeenships aggregating 35,000 gtships to BV class in 2012.Examples included a 1,000 gtro-ro passengership buildingfor Atlânticoline at Armon inBurela, and a 3,250 gt tunafishing vessel for Albacorabuilding at Armon, Gijon.Nine ships were delivered to

BV class by yards in theregion in 2012. Examplesincluded a 4,950 gt generalcargo ship for NAVESCO, Colombia, built by Astillerosde Murueta, and a 3,300 gtpatrol ship for the SpanishNavy built by Navantia. Although Spanish yards aresuffering during the economicdownturn, quite a few are still

resisting the trend, andsubstantial orders for newtuna vessels are good newsfor yards in the north of thecountry, and for BV. New classification andcertification work during theyear included two 160,000dwt tankers for Ibaizabal,built in Korea under BV class,and four chemical tankers

which returned from LRS to BV, testifying to itscompetitiveness.In 2012, BV was activelyinvolved in R&D projects,including LNG as fuel andfloating wind turbineinitiatives, and was grantedseveral contracts for MLC2006 training and energyefficiency systems.

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ITALYuMSC took delivery of thecruise ship MSC Divina, builtat STX France, to BV class in2012, and will take delivery of the MSC Preziosa in 2013from the same yard. Othernew deliveries included thebulk carriers Sider Itaca, Sider Procida, and Sider Vivara for the Romeo Group ofNapoli, built by Ningbo XinleShipbuilding Group Co Ltd,China. Fincantieri deliveredthe cruise ship Riviera toOceania, while the smallluxury cruise ship Le Soleal is under construction at thesame yard for delivery in 2013for Compagnie du Ponant.New classification andcertification work in 2012

included the general cargoships Bluarrow and Blumarlinfor La Prora SaS, the bulkcarrier Boka for Dabinovic,Monaco, the bulker Sider Luckfor the Romeo Group, and thegeneral cargo ship South Riverfor Italian Shipping Company.Activity during the yearincluded the delivery oftraining courses on MLC 2006and ISO for the Italian CoastGuard. Yachting businesscontinued to thrive, as newrules for the classification of yachts entered into force.General agreement was also reached with UnicreditLeasing Bank for theclassification and certificationof its yachting fleet in 2013.

u Sixteen ships aggregating422,487 gt were ordered byowners in Greece to BV class in 2012. These included aliquefied gas carrier forBrave Maritime Corporationbuilt in Korea for delivery infirst-quarter 2014, a 35,900 dwtbulk carrier building forLaskaridis Shipping Co Ltd inChina for delivery in September2013, and a 94,809 gt liquefiedgas carrier for DynacomTankers Management to bedelivered in 2015 by Koreanbuilders. Thirty-seven ships aggregating1.55m gt were delivered toowners in the region,including the 177,000 dwt bulk carrier Afales, built byShanghai JiangnanChangxing Shipbuilding for

Minerva Marine Inc, the 2,775 dwt bulker Blue StarPatmos delivered to Blue StarFerries Maritime by DaewooShipbuilding & MarineEngineering Co, and the75,009 dwt bulk carrier Triton,built for Laskaridis ShippingCo Ltd by Penglai ZhongbaiJinglu Ship Industry Co Ltd.New classification andcertification work included thatfor the Gleamray Maritimebulk carriers Ecopride G.O.and Ecomar G.O., the Starbulkbulkers Obelix and StarPolaris, the PolembrosShipping oil tanker TinosWarrior, and the New Shippingoil tanker Naviga. Ongoingwork includes MLC 2006training and certification, andexpansion of offshore activity.

HELLENIC AND BLACK SEA REGION TURKEY & CASPIAN SEAuIn 2012, 65 vesselsaggregating 80,000 gt wereordered at Turkish yardsunder BV class. These figuresindicate a growth of 15 percent compared to 2011, andBV maintains its leadership in newbuilding classification,with a market share of over60 per cent at Turkish yards.A total of 24 ships weredelivered by yards in theregion in 2012. These included thesophisticated 14,500 dwtasphalt carrier Asphalt Spiritbuilt by the Sedef Shipyard inTuzla for US-based ownerBlue Sea Shipping LinesInc.Twelve vessels (averageage 13 years) aggregating110,000 gt were transferred to BV from major IACS class

societies during the year.Work meanwhile continuedapace on specialist floatingpower plant conversionprojects, with new units underconstruction in 2012 for 2013delivery. The Caspian Seaarea, namely azakhstan,Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan,remains a potential source offurther growth in marine andoffshore activities. In 2013, BV plans to have a permanentpresence in Azerbaijan andTurkmenistan. As in 2011, BV Turkey continued toprovide newbuilding sitesupervision services on behalf of shipowners. New services such as MLCand SEEMP are meanwhilebeing actively promoted.

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JAPAN uJapanese ship owners were busy ordering bulkcarriers in 2012 – six fromChinese shipyards, and twofrom Japanese yards. Aseries of six bulk carriers is building for Ratu Shippingat Zhoushan JinhaiwanShipyard in China, with theships scheduled to bedelivered over the period2014-2015. Japanese shipowners also ordered two LPG carriers from nationalyards during the year.In 2012, 25 ships weredelivered by Japanese yards,with a total gross tonnage of 97,300. These includedeleven bulk carriers, two

VLCCs, five LPG tankers,three ro-ros, one chemicalcarrier, and two tugs. Nine ofthe ships were for Japaneseowners, and seven were forowners in Taiwan. Examplesof ships delivered in theregion during the yearincluded the two VLCCs forFormosa Plastics MarineCorp (FPMC) built atUniversal Shipbuilding Corp,Ariake, and three ro-rovessels for Euroship built atKyokuyo Shipbuilding Corp.Developments during theyear included introducing toclients the concept andbenefits of energy efficiencycompliance and SEEMP.

MIDDLE EAST uA total of ninety shipsaggregating 154,000 gt wereordered by owners in theMiddle East region in 2012,comprising tugs, supplyboats, AHTs, crew boats, and multi-purpose vessels.In Qatar, the construction ofsix Damen Stan 1806 tugs, forQatar Shipping, wascompleted at Nakilat Damen Shipyard Qatar (N-DSQ). Four Damen Stan 2205 pilot

boats and one Damen Stan2606 tender will be delivered in2013. In the UAE, the 1,557 gtoffshore self-elevating unit AFSep Samrat was delivered by Dubai Drydocks to AfconsInfrastructure Ltd. Meanwhile,the large offshore buoy/oiloffloading project for the CLOVProject in Angola is underconstruction in the Middle Eastat GPC (Gulf Piping Co) in AbuDhabi, by Bluewater Energy

Services. And four 53.8 m hybridseismic support vessels areunder construction for Bourbonat the Grandweld shipyard inDubai. In Iraq, three 17,000 dwtmultipurpose vessels have beenordered at Dae Sun Shipyard by

the Iraqi State Co for MaritimeTransport, and in Saudi Arabia,A. A. Turki has ordered ninevessels (tugs / sea-going launchoil recovery ships) fromTorgem Gemi Insaat SanVetica A.S. Shipyard in Turkey.


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CHINAu The number of ships built to BV class in China in 2012for owners in the North Asiaregion was 53, aggregating488,434 gt. Specific examplesincluded six 34,540 gt bulkcarriers built for Crown Ship,Hong Kong, by YangzhouDayang Shipbuilding, and two40,840 gt bulkers built byShanghai Jiangnan Changxingfor Oak Maritime (Hong Kong)Inc. A total of 94 shipsaggregating 1.89m gt weredelivered with BV class toowners within North Asia in 2012. These included theGreenship Bulk Pte Ltd bulkcarrier JS Amazon, the firstEEDI-certified vessel for BV,and the 298,000 dwt VLCCTrikwong Venture for Wah

Kwong, BV China's No. 1 Asian owner, During 2012, BV China completelyreorganised its marketing and sales department, for the benefit of owners. New services thus providedincluded EEDI verification,MLC 2006 inspection andcertification, and OffshoreFloating Unit services forCNOOC. Eleven newshipowners / managers werecertified by BV China in 2012,and 154 SMC / ISPP auditsperformed. Furthermore,148 local manufacturers werenewly certified by BV, whichnow recognises over 1,850manufacturers in China ascomplying with BV Model I, BV Model II or MED Module D.

SOUTH ASIAuA total of 35 ships wereordered by owners to BV classin the region in 2012, with afurther 17 yet to be confirmed.Yards in the region, meanwhile,delivered a total of six vesselsduring the year. The latterincluded a jack-up vessel builtin Dubai for Afcons, which willoperate mainly in India in a port construction capacity, and a dredger built at WesternMarine Shipyard inBangladesh, the first in aseries of dredgers to be built inBangladesh yards to meet thedemand for local waterwayimprovements. A series ofthree further jack-ups isscheduled to be built in India in

2013/14. Ships in servicegains in India during 2012were mainly limited to smallvessels, while BV Bangladeshcontinued to enjoy a verystrong position in the ships in service sector and securedseven classification andcertification appointments inthe course of the year, mostly bulk carriers for localshipowners. BV India hasbeen involved in the generalinspection of various Indian-flag vessels under localregulations, helping tostrengthen relationships withIndian owners. SEEMPactivity is also expected togrow in 2013.

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t The oil tanker FPMC C Noble, one of the twoVLCCs for Formosa Plastics Marine Corp builtat Japan Marine United Corp., Ariake Shipyard.

t The containership Kota Gaya built by Hyundai Mipo Dockyard for Pacific International Lines

KOREAu Ships ordered by ownersin Korea to BV class in 2012included five medium-range30,300 gt tankers for Sinokor,the first of which is scheduledto be delivered in 2014; anLNG carrier for Dynacombuilding at HHI (delivery May 2015); a 10,100 dwt LPGcarrier for Geogas to bedelivered from STX in

October 2014; and two 49,100 dwt product carriersfor Wilmar to be built atHyundai Vinashin, the first ofwhich is due to be deliveredin September 2014. 458 shipsaggregating 31.5m gt were delivered by Koreanshipyards in 2012. Examplesincluded the 180,000 dwtbulk carrier Gran Trader for

Nisshin Shipping, built at Sungdong Shipyard; the3,200-passenger-capacityro-pax Tanit, for Cotunav,built at DSME and the biggest ro-pax built in Koreato date; and the 16,000 teucontainership Marco Polobuilt for CMA CGM at DSME.Other major developmentsduring the year included the

securing of approval inprinciple for a new STXFloating LNG Storage,Electric and Gas Supply and LNG Bunkering vessel,and the provision of newenergy efficiency and hullform optimisation servicesfor Korean shipyards inpartnership with Hydrocean.

TAIWANuSix vessels, aggregating76,000 gt, were ordered to BVclass by owners in Taiwan in2012, a slight increase on theprevious year. Theseincluded a 35,000 dwt bulkcarrier for China SteelExpress, to be built by CSBCKeelung and delivered in2013; a 4,662 teu containervessel for Yang Ming, to bebuilt by CSBC Kaohsiung for2014 delivery; and four 1,000 gt patrol vessels forthe Taiwan Coast Guard, tobe built by Jade Shipbuildingand delivered in 2015/2016.Ten vessels, including sevenpilot boats, one researchboat, and two mega- yachtswere delivered by Taiwaneseyards in 2012, while twelvevessels, comprising twoVLCCs, nine bulk carriers,and one mega-yacht weredelivered to owners inTaiwan during the year. A Capesize bulk carrier wasdelivered by Universal Tsu of Japan to Formosa PlasticsMarine, a Handysize bulkerdelivered by Kita Nihon,Japan, to Shih WeiNavigation, and a Handymaxbulker delivered by ImabariShipbuilding, Japan, toTaiwan Navigation.In addition to newconstruction and ships inservice work, BV Taiwan isalso increasingly involved in providing training services to the local shipping andshipbuilding industries.

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SOUTH-EAST ASIAuIn 2012, 212 ships wereordered by owners in theregion, aggregating 1.128m gt.These included four 50,000 dwtchemical tankers, two 70 moffshore diving supportvessels, and two 12,000 dwtgeneral cargo vessels. Ships delivered from yards in the region are typically smallunits. Deliveries in 2012included three 60 m supplyvessels and five tugs. Ships delivered to owners inthe region, meanwhile, included three general cargoships and a containership forPacific International Lines,and a bulk carrier for Raffles/Wilmar.

New classification andcertification work in the regionwas gained on 120 ships.Owners who moved vesselsto BV class included Aban,with seven offshore self-elevating units, MiclynExpress Offshore, with 30-plus offshore crew/workboats, Hubline/Highline with a fleet of 30-plus tugsand barges, and RafflesShipmanagement withchemical/oil tankers.There is growing demand in the region for work relating to the development of marginal fields and vesselssuch as early well-testingand production vessels.

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uuAt the end of 2012 Bureau Veritas’classed fleet was still growing

strongly. It stood at 10,152 ships totallingover 91m gt. 770 newbuildings weredelivered, totalling over 8m gt, plus aninflux of ships and offshore units in servicehelped to boost growth and to lower theaverage age of the classed fleet.

Recognising that shipowners want toreduce workload and paperwork BureauVeritas put in place a completely new IT-based certification and ship status system.The new certification system makes theship’s Certificate of Classification a simpleone page document. Everything else isonline in a standardised and easy to accessformat. That cuts down the chances oferror, confusion and fraud and enables BVto add new services to make life moreefficient for shipowners and operators.

The ratification of the Maritime LabourConvention (MLC) during 2012 means itwill enter into force in August 2013.Bureau Veritas has invested heavily intraining a team of inspectors so that it can help shipowners comply quickly. Ithas also developed self-help materialsand courses for shipowners, including anonline inspection booklet to help ownersprepare for inspections.A web-based training programme willhelp shipowners train their personnel for

implementation of the MLC. Introductionto MLC 2006 training facilitates theconcurrent training of large numbers of personnel without interrupting theirnormal working activities, reducing thetime and cost of using other, traditionallearning courses.

One area where BV extended its work tohelp offshore operators was to adapt and apply the MLC to offshore units.Marine crews on offshore units will becovered by MLC requirements and BV was helping yards and flag states to makethat go smoothly.

Energy efficiency services were in demandto help owners save fuel, to help yardsproduce efficient new designs and to help

the industry to benefit from the new IMOrequirements for EEDI and SEEMP.Bureau Veritas issued the first of its new voluntary SEEMP notations to the1,500-passenger and 500-car cruise ferryCap Finistère, operated by France’sBrittany Ferries. Higher efficiency, lowercosts and less environmental impact areall benefits for Brittany Ferries and foreveryone in the transport chain.

Bureau Veritas introduced the SEEMPNotation scheme in July 2012. It covers awide variety of ship types and is a powerfultool for creating meaningful energymanagement measures on new or existingships, as well as helping owners targetgreen investment effectively. It builds on theIMO Ship Energy Efficiency Management

s Bureau Veritas is not just about big ships and big offshoreunits. Its staff are close to the sea and lead yacht races suchas the Posidonia Cup.”

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FRANÇOIS TEISSIERVICE PRESIDENT, SHIPS IN SERVICE.

Our objectives this year are simple – to maintain and reinforce the quality of our classed fleet and the quality of our service while extendingdedicated services to offshore energy clients.


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Bureau Veritas deploys sophisticatedsoftware tools to back the notationincluding the SEECAT energy transfer

simulation model of the energy usage onboard the ship. A partnership withHydrOcean allows BV to deliver complexCFD modelling of hull and appendagesto achieve minimum resistance, throughoptimisation of various parameters: lines,bulbous bow, trim, etc.

During 2012 BV also invested considerableeffort in working at IACS and IMO to try to

help implement EEDI in a useful anduniform way and to keep all ship types ona level playing field. Bureau Veritas wasespecially concerned to ensure that shipswere not built underpowered, simply toachieve a lower EEDI rating. At IMO BVwas active with studies setting new GHGemissions levels.

With the integration of a wider range ofoffshore activities into BV’s new Marine& Offshore division, the Ships in Servicedivision has also begun the creation of adedicated offshore team to serve offshoreunits in service. It will be busy, with sevennew major offshore units transferring intoBV class last year. The implementation ofrisk-based inspections for offshore unitswill help reduce inspection costs andfocus maintenance better.

s 1,500-passenger and 500-car cruise ferryCap Finistère was the first vessel to adoptBV’s voluntary SEEMP certification with aview to saving energy.

Bureau Veritas’ classed fleet is still growing strongly,with 10,152 ships totalling over 91m gt. 770 newbuildingswere delivered, totalling over 8m gt, plus an influx of ships and offshore units in service.

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u The CGG Symphony, seismicresearch vessel owned byCGG and operated by LouisDreyfus Armateurs


uuResearch and development formarine activities was firmly focussed

on meeting the needs of shipowners. Theyneed bigger and more efficient ships whichare structurally sound. To make thatpossible Bureau Veritas continued todevelop its partnerships and joint projectswith a wide array of other expert andinterested parties. These included oilmajors, large shipowners, researchinstitutes, engineering and manufacturingcompanies and over twenty universities. Tobetter co-ordinate the global R&D effortsTechnical Co-operation Centres wereestablished in the USA, Brazil, China, Koreaand Singapore, all networking with themain R&D team in Paris.

The results were impressive. Bureau Veritasnow has a clear lead in the use ofComputational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)techniques to optimise hydrodynamicefficiency. Working with HydrOcean BureauVeritas has been able to performoptimisation for hull shapes and appendagedetails including added resistance in waves

taking into account all non-linear effectswith a significant degree of accuracy.

Applying risk-based design methods to theissues raised by using LNG to power shipswas another area of development. LNGbunker vessels and LNG-powered ships ofdifferent sizes pose new safety problems.Bureau Veritas’ expertise in the use of risk-based analysis has helped to devise clearand safe standards for these vessels andprotocols for the analysis and verificationof new designs. Work began on fire,dispersion and explosion modelling usingFLACS software.

Several projects involving fire andevacuation analyses were underway,including the completion of an evacuationsoftware validation project and aprobabilistic framework for fire safetydevelopment project.

Work got underway on the EU GRIP (GreenRetrofitting through Improved Propulsion)project, looking at how retrofitting of ESDs

could improve efficiency of existing shipsby up to ten per cent. Bureau Veritas leadsthe structural analysis group. Developmentof Bureau Veritas’ main energy use analysistool SEECAT (Ship Energy EfficiencyCalculation and Analysis Tool) continuedand the tool was in use on live projects.

Research also focussed on the humanelement through the CyClaDes projectwhich aims to apply innovative ergonomicconcepts to human-centred design.

The IWEST Project continues, working onproducing energy from waste aboard cruiseships. Research into the use of hydrogenas a fuel for an inland waters passengerferry was also begun.

A substantial amount of R&D effort continuedto be applied to Arctic development. Ice loadcalculations were done for major Koreanshipyards and new modules developed forBV’s IceSTAR ice load and structureinteraction tool.

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Our research and development strategy is firmlybased on building a wide platform of knowledgebringing together the best universities, shipowners,engineering and manufacturing companies andresearch institutes.

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uuConsultancy for the shippingindustry and defence industries

was active during 2012, with a very widerange of tasks.

One big project was for France’s navalshipbuilder DCNS. Tecnitas audited the anti-corrosion performance for internal and external structure of the warshipswhich DCNS has built for the French andforeign navies. The work was carried out inliaison with coatings manufacturers andapplication companies and benchmarkedagainst ships in foreign navies not built byDCNS. The aim of the project was toidentify potential cost savings over thelifecycle of warships by better tailoring theinitial coating to the service required.

Tecnitas’ expertise in shaft alignment wasin demand. The biggest job was for threeof the biggest containerships in the world,the 16,000 teu series for CMA CGM led bythe CMA CGM Marco Polo. These vesselshave the largest single shaft/single screwpropulsion system in the world. Tecnitascarried out the full shaft alignmentcalculations for the shipbuilder, DSME.

Shat alignment services were also in demandat Italy’s Fincantieri, where Tecnitas gaveassistance with calculations for the shaftalignment of a vessel using water lubricatedbearings. These bearings are becoming moreused for environmental reasons and theyrequire careful shaft alignment to function

correctly in service.Tecnitas also carried outshaft investigations for major cruise shipprojects, including analysing the forces onthe shafts caused while the vessel is turning.

A major vibration analysis was carried outfor DSME for the new 3,200-passengerferry Tanit, built for COTUNAV.

There were a substantial number of shaftalignment and vibration projects forChinese shipyards. As the Chinese yardsbuild vessels of larger size and complexitythere is more work for Tecnitas there.

The E2 energy management software toolwas further enhanced and rolled out toshipowners and fleet managers. Thepurpose of E2’s Benchmark mode is tobenchmark, follow up and monitor theenergy efficiency performance of differentships within the fleet or of the same shipfor different voyages.

A life extension study was carried out onseven floating docks used by the Frenchmilitary ports.

Tecnitas supervised the removal of thewreck of the cargo ship TK Bremen froma beach on the coast of Brittany. The roleof Tecnitas was to ensure co-ordinationwith several different local authorities, allwith different priorities, and with the Dutchwreck removal company and the insurers.

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SEECAT (Ship Energy EfficiencyCalculation & Analysis) is a shipenergy modelling platform aiming to assist designers and owners inthe energy optimization of new andexisting ships. It allows yards anddesigners to optimize the energyefficiency of their new designs, andowners to achieve the best possibleenergy performance of their ships by investigating various scenarios.SEECAT represents the ship as anenergy chain of various physicalcomponents facilitating the energyflow from one to the other. During this energy transportationand transformation, energy lossescan be traced and minimised. Basedon a user-defined navigational profilethe instantaneous fuel consumptionand consequent CO2, NOx and SOxemissions are calculated.SEECAT has been developed in closecooperation with shipyards andshipowners and is continuouslyvalidated with real measurements on-board to deliver an accuratedescription of the energy operationsof ships. Armed with that analysis,yards and owners can make choiceson equipment, speed, trim andoperation to deliver the optimumresult.

s BV is involved in the EU GRIP (Green Retrofittingthrough Improved Propulsion) project, looking at how retrofitting of ESDs (Energy Saving Devices)could improve efficiency of existing ships.

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uu Despite a stream of deliveries of newbuildings threatening an

oversupply of capacity, containershipoperators continued to order new verylarge tonnage during 2012. The majorplayers drove the market, fighting for bothmarket share and economies of scale.

Bureau Veritas continued to build astrong position in the containershipsector, especially for very large ships.It now has over eighty post-Panamaxcontainerships in BV class, including

the largest containership in the world.And at the year’s end thirty-five newcontainerships were building to BVclass, fifteen of those over 8,000 teu.

One reason why operators and yards choseBureau Veritas class for their ULCCs wasBV’s leading position in understandinghydro-elasticity. Bureau Veritas’ state of theart HOMER software and family of Whispnotations make possible extensivecalculations of the dynamic response of theship in a seaway, taking into account

t The 1,036 teu Wes Gesa was built to BV class at China’s Jiangdong yard for Germany’s Wessels Reederei.


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CASE STUDYFRANK LUCHAIRMAN & CEO, YANG MING, TAIWAN

Yang Ming’s managementphilosophy is Teamwork, Innovation,Honesty and Pragmatism. We applythose values to everything we do. As aleading containership operator, YangMing decided to fulfil its socialresponsibility through its dedicationto promoting green shipping: eco-friendly ships, containers andterminals. Recently we concluded thelease of 5+5 energy-efficient 14,000teu vessels, lowering our carbonfootprint, and successfully installedAMP (Alternative Maritime Power) atour Kao Ming Container Terminal inKaohsiung. Also, energy-savingsystems and environmentally friendlymaterials are used in our reefer anddry containers. We are looking intousing LNG engines in future vessels. BVhas strong, proven expertise in shipsafety and eco-friendly initiatives, andhas access to the latest cutting-edgetechnology. This is why Yang Mingchooses to work with BV, which hasbeen providing classification andinspection services to us for more thantwenty years. We currently have fiveships under BV class all started fromnewbuildings, with work on anotherdue to start at the end of 2013. YangMing believes in operating safe andefficient ships, and we know that BVcan help us achieve these goals.

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whipping and springing and whipping reviewfor global strength also. The HOMERsoftware was used in 2012 with majorKorean yards to analyse designs forcontainerships up to 18,500 teu. Orders forsuch very large vessels are expected shortly.

Bureau Veritas is also able to help yardsand owners deliver very energy efficientdesigns, using CFD analysis to optimisethe hull shape, and cutting edgeenvironmental technology. The CMA CGMMarco Polo, the world’s largest

containership, was delivered with anelectronically-controlled engine, a twistingleading edge rudder and a pre-swirl stator,to improve water flow and reduceresistance. An exhaust gas bypass systemsimproves efficiency at slow speeds.

Gas propulsion for containershipscontinued to generate interest. BureauVeritas worked with DSME and CMA CGMto approve the design of an LNG-powered14,000 teu containership. The vessel willbe able to run on LNG or HFO or a

variable mix of the two. That provides longrange between bunkering combined withreduced emissions and substantial fueleconomies. At the feeder end of thespectrum Bureau Veritas worked withGerman owner Vega Reederei anddesigner Marine Service GmbH on a 1,000teu gas-fuelled container ship design. Ituses a standard LNG tank container as afuel source.

Interesting orders for new containershipsto be built to BV class during 2012included a series of ten 9,200 teu vesselsto be built at Dalian and STX Dalian. YangMing ordered a 4,200 teu vessel to be builtat CSBC Kaohsiung.

The headline delivery was the 16,000 teuCMA CGM Marco Polo, built at DSME forCMA CGM. It will be followed by twosisterships in 2013, all delivering the lowestpossible emissions per slot due to the sizeand environmental friendliness of thevessels. Amongst the other deliveries werea series of nine 1,036 teu feeder vesselsbuilt at Jiangdong and Sainty Yangzhou forfour different German owners.

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s The 16,000 teu CMA CGM Marco Polo is the first of threeultra-large containerships built to BV class at Korea’sDSME for CMA CGM. It is the largest containership in theworld and is fitted with cutting edge environmentaltechnology. The two sister vessels will be delivered in 2013.

t The 5,618 teu containershipNedlloyd Mercator has joinedBV classed fleet in August2012, following four sistershipswhich have entered BV registerearlier this year. The vessel,owned and operated by MaerskMaritime Services, was built in2000 by Aker MTW Werft inGermany.


uuThe global tanker market remainedflat during 2012, which led to a

slowdown in ordering of new vessels.However there were significant deliveries ofnew tonnage, and Bureau Veritas retainedits market share in the tanker sector.

Both yards and owners have begun tofocus on the effects of Emission ControlAreas (ECAs). This calls for action at thedesign stage, especially if the vessel is built for local trading, as in the case ofmany chemical tankers. Bureau Veritashas been advising owners on measures toreduce fuel consumption and emissions.

There is growing interest in LNG as a fuelfor oil and chemical tankers. Working withan industry partnership BV is developinga conversion for an existing 18,000 dwtoil/chemical tanker to be adapted to LNGfuel, using Type C tanks on deck.

With freight earnings constrained tankerowners were focused on good service andeffective maintenance at reduced costs.Bureau Veritas has put extra effort intohelping owners to understand and beready for new regulations. At the sametime it has worked with some shipownersto develop VeriSTAR HLC, a lifecycle hullstructure monitoring tool, as a newnotation. A pilot study to implementsmarter structural maintenance usingVeriSTAR HLC is underway.

When new tanker ordering picks up againit is likely that the vessels will be built tothe Harmonised Common Structural

t The 298,000 dwt vlccTrikwong Venture wasbuilt to BV class atChina’s Dalian yardand delivered to WahKwong.


s The 158,000 dwt Suezmax tanker Montesperanza was built to BV class at Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries yard and deliveredwith a sister ship to Ondimar Transportes Maritimos LTDA.

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CASE STUDYALEJANDRO AZNAR IBAIZABAL GROUP, SPAIN.

We were proud to celebrate 150 yearsin shipping in 2011, and we are proudthat we are safe and viable despite theturbulent markets. This is a businessfamily not a family business, andshipping has given us a platform togrow the group in many areas. We areactive in the port and tug business,and in offshore, where our largermulti-role tugs are employed. Our bigship business focuses on oiltransportation for the majors wherewe build ships when we see goodopportunities backed by the strongrelationships we have. We took deliveryof two new low consumption suezmaxtankers last year, both backed by longterm charters and we are pleased withtheir performance. They weredeveloped with Total and Stena and itwas they who introduced us to BureauVeritas. We are happy with the shipsand with the service from BV..


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Rules. Bureau Veritas has worked hardwithin IACS on the harmonisation of therules and concurrently is updating itsVeriSTAR Hull software to ensure thatyards are ready to assess designs againstthe new CSR-H rules. Bureau Veritas hastrained staff in the major shipbuildingcountries who can work with yards onCSR-H complaint designs and has

organised training sessions for the mainshipbuilders.

Bureau Veritas was especially strong in the chemical tanker market during 2012,with 620 chemical tankers in BV class.Twenty-four new chemical tankers weredelivered to BV class, for owners in Belgium,China, France, Italy, The Netherlands,

Japan, Korea, Singapore and Turkey. Seven new sister vessels of 49,000 dwt were ordered to BV class at Hyundai, fivefor Korea’s Sinokor Marine and two forSingapore’s Wilmar Holding.

Sweden’s Wisby Tankers ordered two30,000 dwt asphalt tankers from HyundaiMipo and entrusted the class to BureauVeritas. BV’s special expertise with thesehighly sophisticated vessels gives it aglobal leading position in this sector.Significant deliveries of tankers in BV class included the 300,000 dwt vlccFPMC C Orient built at Japan MarineUnited Corp. for Formosa Plastics MarineCorp., the 298,000 dwt Trikwong Venture,built at Dalian for Hong Kong’s WahKwong and two 158,000 dwt Suezmax oiltankers built at Korea’s Samsung forPortuguese company Ondimar.

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t The 18,000 dwt oil/chemical tanker Fure West, owned by Furetank, is to be converted to burn LNG fuel.


uuThe quickly changing patterns ofworld gas consumption were

giving owners pause for thought during2012. Greek owners in particular werewilling to invest in new large gascarriers, some speculative and somebeing ordered with short term charterbacking. There was also increasinginterest in vessels with regasificationpotential, giving them more flexibility toadapt to coming market changes.

2012 was also a year of planning forenergy majors and in 2013 there areexpected to be a large number of ordersfor big LNG vessels, built to supply longterm transportation needs within energygroups. Bureau Veritas will be wellplaced to assist these owners, buildingon its unrivalled expertise with LNGshipment and its cutting edge researchinto structural and propulsion issuesaround gas carriers.

s The 11,000 cu m LPG carrier Knebworth wasone of two sister ships built to BV class atJapan’s Asakawa yard for Singapore-basedKomaya Shipping.

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CASE STUDYMANOS MIGADIS NEWBUILDING PROJECT MANAGER,DYNACOM, GREECE.

We are in charge of new constructionsfor various types of vessels. Currentlywe are focusing on the LNG projectwhich is under way at Hyundai Ulsanconsisting of three 155,000 cu m andfour 162,000 cu m membrane LNGcarriers. Accuracy of design, meetingpresent and upcoming rules andregulations and market requirements,keeping high quality standardsthroughout vessels’ construction, highsafety standards, green technology,smooth performance of all tests andcommissioning of equipment,including sea trials and gas trials areall key issues for us. We prefer wellknown service providers havingproven experience. They should meetand even exceed current andforthcoming requirements andindustry standards. Innovativetechnology, 24/7 technical supportand a worldwide service networkinfluence our supplier selection. Wehave long co-operation with BV innewbuildings. We have already havetaken delivery of twenty-five newtankers and bulk carriers with BV class,and from the LNG Carriers underconstruction , three are classed withBV. We benefit from the quality of BVservices during plan approvalincluding fatigue analysis. Weappreciate also BV’s efficientsupervision and flawless and accuratecertification as well as our smoothcommunication with BV Piraeus.


During 2012 Bureau Veritas worked closelywith yards and engine manufacturers onprojects for gas-fuelled LNG carriersburning both low and high pressure gas.Approval in principle was granted for aMAN B&W project burning high pressuregas to power an LNG carrier.

The LPG market saw establishedowners continuing to invest in largertonnage. Switzerland’s Geogas ordereda 35,000 cu m LPG carrier to be built toBV class at Hyundai Mipo and four newLPG carriers were delivered with BVclass. These included two 11,000 cu mvessels built for Singapore’s KomayaShipping at Asakawa, the 6,570 cu mCoral Acropora, built for Anthony Vederat Avic Dingheng, the 15,600 cu m CoralEnergy built by Meyer Werft, also forAnthony Veder, and the 9,500 cu mLubersac built for Hong Kong’s EightRiver Shipping at Miura.

Significant new orders for LNG carriersplaced with Bureau Veritas class during2012 included a 184,000 cu m LNG-regasification vessel for Dynagas to be built at STX Offshore in Korea. The vessel will have NO96 typemembrane construction and DFDEpropulsion. The addition of regasificationplant is a first for Dynagas, but an areawhere Bureau Veritas has been thepioneer and amassed considerableexperience. Dynacom Tankers contracteda 164,000 cu m LNG carrier at Korea’sHHI, with MKIII membrane tanks andDFDE propulsion.

The most interesting LNG delivery wasthe relatively small but highly flexibleand sophisticated Coral Energy. It wasbuilt for Netherlands-based AnthonyVeder at Germany’s Meyer Werft. Itbuilds on the flexible concepts developedwith Anthony Veder’s Coral Methane,

also built to BV class. With Type C bi-lobular tanks and the first direct drivedual fuel LNG/diesel propulsion with Iceclass 1A the vessel can handle smallscale LNG distribution needs as the useof LNG as a fuel grows both ashore andat sea.

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s The 15,600 cu m LNG carrier Coral Energy is a highly sophisticated flexible LNG carrier with dual fuel propulsion built to BV class for Netherlands-based Anthony Veder at Germany’s Meyer Werft.


uuDuring 2012 the bulk carrier marketremained depressed with low freight

rates and low second hand ship values. Astrong flow of newbuildings into the marketkept rates low. But over the year the picturebegan to change as the bulk carrier orderbook globally shrank and growing worldtrade absorbed new tonnage.

At the end of 2012 Bureau Veritas was ina very strong position globally with almost1,000 bulk carriers in its class, totalling62.5 m dwt. The split of ship sizes andtypes in BV class mirrored the distributionof the world bulker fleet. That givesBureau Veritas good experience with alltypes of bulk carriers.

Despite the continuing overcapacity therewere still orders for new vessels during2012 and Bureau Veritas was entrustedwith orders for thirty-two new bulkerstotalling one million dwt, almost all to bebuilt in Chinese yards.

One reason owners and yards came toBureau Veritas for their bulk carrier class is

its expertise with the Common StructuralRules and the forthcoming Harmonisedrules. Bureau Veritas has been at the heartof the harmonisation process within IACS.It has used that expertise to constantlyupdate its tools including MARS andVeriSTAR Hull software and to train teamsin shipbuilding countries. It worked on sixnew CSR-H compliant designs with yards inChina, Korea and Japan.

The second reason why Bureau Veritaswas attractive for classing new bulkerswas its expertise with energy saving. Withits partner HydrOcean it provided CFDanalysis to optimise hull forms and using

its SEECAT software it was able to analyseand reduce emissions for new designsand vessels in service.

Bureau Veritas was also ahead withapplying EEDI criteria to bulk carrierdesigns. It issued its first EEDI certificateto the Ultramax geared bulk carrier JSAmazon, the lead ship in a series ofCrown63 bulk carriers developed byChina’s Sinopacific Shipbuilding Groupand bulk carrier specialist Setaf-Saget.The 63,301 dwt vessel delivers a GHGemission performance twenty per centbetter than required under MARPOL whenmeasured by IMO’s EEDI criteria.

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We have beenworking aspartners all the time with a strongtrack record of creative andconstructivecooperation.

Ours is a family business going back manygenerations and I am responsible for it, and to it. Shipowners who are able to reinvest at this severely depressed phase of the cycleare faced with a stunning array of choicesof yards and designs and second handtonnage. But they are confronted withpotential game changers in regulationssuch as MLC and emissions, technology suchas LNG as a fuel and global geopolitics andfinance. The industry is at the crossroads of huge forces at a play, giving today’sdecisions a high degree of complexity anduncertainty. Only one thing seems certain -that is shipping, as an industry, will continueto exist. At Oak, we intend to continue to re-invest into shipping to stay competitive, butalways doing so with caution and prudence.Our relationship with BV goes back to morethan fifty years and we have been workingas partners all the time with a strong trackrecord of creative and constructivecooperation.

CASE STUDYJACK HSU MANAGING DIRECTOR, OAK MARITIME


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One hundred and forty-seven bulkcarriers totalling 9.6 m dwt were deliveredto BV class during 2012. They includedeleven Crown63 bulkers and ten of theprevious design Crown58. Among the verylarge bulkers were two 205,000 dwtvessels for FPMC built at Japan MarineUnited Corp. and three 206,000 dwtvessels built at Jiangnan for Greece’sDiana Shipping and Cardiff Marine. FourCapesize bulkers were delivered, includingone for Oak Maritime built at SWS.Minicapes were still in strong demand andfour 92,500 dwt vessels were built underBV class at Jiangsu New Yangzi yard forTaiwan’s FPMC and a further four82,000 dwt minicapes were delivered toGreece’s Enterprise Shipping fromKorea’s HHI.

Interesting orders included two 81,600 dwtminicapes to be built for Oak Maritime atJiangnan and two 80,700 dwt vessels tobe built at Japan’s Universal for Italiancompany Augustea Atlantica Spa. In thesmaller sizes Nordic Hamburg orderedtwo 37,500 Handysizes to be built atYangzhou and African HHB Ltd orderedfour 28,000 dwt vessels to be built atGuangzhou Wenchong.

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s The 207,000 dwt FPMC B Image built at Japan Marine United Corp.

FIRST EEDI CERTIFICATE FOR SINOPACIFIC’S BULKER

Bureau Veritas has issued its first EEDI (Energy Efficiency Design Index) certificate to thesupramax geared bulk carrier JS AMAZON, the lead ship in a new generation of‘CROWN63’ vessels developed by China’s Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group with the bulkcarrier expert Setaf-Saget. The 63,500 dwt vessel is designed for the carriage of bulk cargoes, including coal, iron ore,grain and cement, as well as a range of dangerous cargoes. Its green house gasperformance when measured in accordance with IMO’s EEDI is 20% better than therequirement under MARPOL Annex VI. Its deadweight – which equates to the maximumachievable within the Common Structural Rules – was achieved as a result of refined steelstructure calculations, and the vessel can carry 5.2 per cent more cargo than other bulkcarriers of comparable size.


uuThe global cruise market saw signsof life in 2012 and more orders for

new vessels are expected in 2013. Thatgave impetus to work on implementing thetwo major concerns of owners and yards– new safety regulations and energy savingand emissions reduction. Bureau Veritaswas at the forefront of helping yards andowners in both areas. Yards are lookingnow for expertise with Safe Return to Portconcepts and for ways to reduce emissionsto meet new standards coming into forcein 2015 and 2016 for sulphur content inECAs and NOx emissions globally.

Owners are focussing on implementinglow sulphur fuel, exhaust gas cleaning orLNG fuel systems and meeting EEDI andSEEMP requirements for energy efficiency.

Bureau Veritas led the world with SafeReturn to Port with the delivery of the3,200-passenger cruise ferry Tanit, builtfor Tunisia’s COTUNAV at Korea’s DSMEyard. She is the largest ferry operating inthe Mediterranean and was the first in theworld designed to all SOLAS 2006Amendments, including the stringent SafeReturn to Port rules applicable to all newpassenger ships above a certain size.Bureau Veritas had an important role inassisting the vessel’s owner and builder todevelop a new design meeting the

complexities of the new SRTP statutoryrules and related class and operationalrequirements.

MSC Cruises’ latest newbuilding, the4,234-passenger MSC Preziosa, will bedelivered in early 2013 by STX Europe.With her sister ship MSC Divina, deliveredearly 2012, she shows the benefits of a lotof effort put in to enhancing safety andenergy efficiency onboard. The vessels both have Bureau Veritas’voluntary additional notation AVM-DPS

assigned to ships arranged with redundantpropulsion, electrical production andsteering systems. The power generationplant, propulsion motors, shaft lines andpropellers, as well as their auxiliarysystems are arranged in two mechanicallyindependent propulsion systems so thatin case of any failure at least 50 per centof the propulsion system remainsavailable. The same principle is applied tothe two independent steering systems.Energy saving systems already proven onprevious ships have been used including an

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CASE STUDYPIERFRANCESCO VAGO CEO OF MSC CRUISES

MSC Cruises is today the market-leading cruise company in the Mediterranean,South Africa and Brazil, and the third largest cruise line in the world, with 15,500employees and more than 45 offices worldwide. The MSC fleet is the result of a 6 billion euro investment programme started in 2003. We choose to work with Bureau Veritas because it is one of the largestinternational certification societies, whose high standards are globallyrecognised. BV has granted MSC Cruises all its different quality certifications,from ISO 14001 for environmental management, to ISO 22000 for food safety and OHSAS 18001 for occupational health and safety. We are of course particularly proud of the fact that BV has conferred its 7 GoldenPearls award on our latest flagship, the MSC Preziosa, our fourth Fantasia-classship. This is one of the highest awards for cruise vessels in recognition of thespecific voluntary attention paid - from design and building, through tooperation - to the Quality Health Safety Environment (QHSE). MSC Cruises is committed to making green choices that keep the oceans blue,and is happy to work with BV to help it achieve that aim consistently.


automatic general power switch for thecabin when not occupied, A/C monitoringsystem in each stateroom with optimizationof savings when balcony door is open orwhen the cabin is empty, optimization of thehull forms and appendices for maximumfuel efficiency and extensive use of new LEDlighting and low consumption bulbs.

The first of BV’s new voluntary SEEMP classnotation was issued to the 1,500-passengerand 500-car cruise ferry Cap Finistère,operated by France’s Brittany Ferries. Higher

efficiency, lower costs and less environmentalimpact are all benefits for Brittany Ferriesand for everyone in the transport chain.

Development work is already underwayon a number of gas-fuelled projects whichshould come to fruition during 2013. InGermany Bureau Veritas was responsiblefor the safety concept of LNG-poweredferries for the German North Sea Islands,developed together with shipownerSchramm, Ingenieurbüro Ingo Schlüterand Becker Marine Systems. The vessels

will use Type C LNG road tank containers.Also in Germany Bureau Veritas workedon a project for a floating LNG-poweredbarge to supply electricity to cruise shipsberthed in the port of Hamburg.

Interesting deliveries to Bureau Veritas classduring 2012 included the 3,200-passengerand 1,060-car Tanit, the 4,234-passengerMSC Divina, the 1,328-passenger Rivierabuilt at Fincantieri for Oceania Cruises andthe 2,400-passenger and 430-car ferry BlueStar Patmos, built at DSME for Blue Starferries. Another five smaller ferries werealso delivered to BV class.

Interesting orders to BV class during2012 included two three mast sailingcruise vessels to be built at Croatia’sBrodotrogir yard for Falco Swiss SailingAG. Each will be 90 m long and haveluxury accommodation for seventy-fiveguests. A passenger/cargo ship forFrench Polynesian owner Aranui will bebuilt in China, delivering accommodationfor 300-passenger on a 125 m long hull.Two small ro-pax vessels were ordered, a614-passenger vessel for Taiwan’s FujianProvince Government to be built in Taiwanat the Jade yard and a 73-passenger pluscars and containers vessels to be builtat Meridian Maritime in Canada for aFrench owner.

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s The MSC Preziosa built to BV class at STX Europe has receivedthe “7 Golden Pearls” which is one of the highest awards forcruise vessels in recognition of the specific voluntaryattention paid, from design and building to operation, to“Quality Health Safety Environment” (QHSE).

s The 3,200-passenger cruise ferry Tanit, the firstpassenger vessel certified according to Safe Returnto Port standard of safety. It was built to BV class atKorea’s DSME for Cotunav.


uuNavies around the world weremanaging tight defence budgets

during 2012. That meant few new orders for warships, but more demandfor classification of warships in service.Navies could see the savings inmaintenance that are delivered byclassification in service. That was behindthe decision of the French Navy to awarda class contract to Bureau Veritas for theforce projection vessel BPC Dixmude, andto renew the class contracts for the firsttwo BPC vessels, Mistral and Tonnerre,which have now been operating under BVclass for seven years.

Construction of two further BPC vessels,sisters to Dixmude, began under BV classat STX St Nazaire and at the Baltic Yardin St Petersburg. Both vessels are for theRussian Navy.

Work continued on the eleven FREMMfrigates and the first vessel, the 142 mAquitaine, entered service with the FrenchNavy. The second frigate for Morocco waslaunched in 2012 and three more in theseries are under construction.

In Spain, the Spanish Navy took delivery

of the second of a series of four verysophisticated multi-role 90 m BAMvessels. These were designed for reducedcrew and low maintenance andcompliance with SOLAS and MARPOL.They can be configured as Offshore PatrolVessels, SAR vessels, for fisheryprotection, humanitarian support, specialforces or for general naval support roles.Dedicated containers are embarkedaccording to the mission, making theships extremely flexible and cost-effective.Bureau Veritas has already approved abasic design to extend the use of the BAMplatform to diverse support andoceanographic roles.

The Royal Malaysian Navy has awardedthe classification of six new 110 m frigatesto be built at the Malaysian Bousteadshipyard to Bureau Veritas class under atechnology transfer deal with Frenchwarship builder DCNS.

Looking forward Bureau Veritas isworking on new rules for Offshore PatrolVessels and is to investigate rules andstandards of USVs – Unmanned SurfaceVehicles – which are becoming more andmore of interest to navies globally.

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s The 90 m multi-role BAM Tornado wasdelivered to the Spanish Navy, builtunder BV class at Spain’s Navantia yard.

CASE STUDYVICE-AMIRAL BRUNO PAULMIERPRESIDENT CPPE, FRENCH NAVY

The standing commission for navalships and systems test and evaluation(CPPE) is responsible for the safety ofall the new vessels due to becommissioned into the French navy.Among the main projects are themulti-purpose FREMM frigate, thefuture tanker and the future SSN. Wealso cover the advanced raidingvessel, the future offshore patrolvessel and support assets. The FrenchNavy has decided to rely on civiliannorms in order to increaseeffectiveness and gain the benefits ofprivate industry experience and wewant to reduce the size of the crew byimproving automation andoptimizing maintenance withoutcompromising our combatoperational requirements. The Frenchnavy has worked with Bureau Veritason various aspects for a number ofvessels. In working with BV, the navywas seeking to improve its generalapproach to safety and to maximisethe benefits of using civilian shipdesign. It has proven to be a way ofreducing the total life cost of the fleetby slimming various organizationswithin the defence department. It has also helped our naval industrydevelop its offer for the exportmarket.

t The French Navy’s 21,600 tonne forceprojection vessel BPC Dixmudeentered a five year ships in serviceclass agreement with Bureau Veritas.


uuDuring 2012 Bureau Veritasestablished itself as a leader

classing inland passenger and cargovessels around the world and helping tointroduce new concepts such as LNG fuel.

Bureau Veritas’ inland fleet grew to 1,802vessels in class and there were a further357 vessels on order. One trendthroughout the year was to usetechnological advances in seagoing shipsfor inland vessels. BV’s HydroStarsoftware was used for risk analysisverification of an investigation by theMaritime Technology Division of GhentUniversity into the ability of an inlandvessel to meet specific Belgian coastalrequirements.

On January 1st, 2013, the revised ADNagreement covering the InternationalCarriage of Dangerous Goods by inlandwaterways entered into force. BureauVeritas is working closely with tankeroperators in Europe to help them meetthe new rules.

Innovative projects in Europe werefocussed on improving the green footprintof inland vessels. BV is helping to produce

a passenger ferry catamaran powered byhydrogen fuel cells for the city of Nantes,France. Separately it is working with gas-fuelled projects including design approvalfor an inland navigation oil tanker of 2,600dwt with dual fuel engines and LNG fuel incryogenic tanks. Ghent-based marineengine builder ABC and Bureau Veritasare co-operating on a project to optimiseABC’s existing dual-fuel engine range forinland vessels.

Bureau Veritas and the Belgianclassification society EuroClass enteredinto a technical co-operation agreementto achieve a harmonized approach toinland navigation vessels. EuroClass isrecognised as a classification society bythe Belgian authorities. Its registercontains around one thousand inlandvessels. BV also extended its co-operationwith the Polish authorities for technicalinspection of inland navigation vessels inthe southern region of the River Vistula.

Internationally Bureau Veritas was veryactive in Egypt with passenger vesselclassification and certification. In SouthAmerica demand for innovative vesselssuitable for local markets is generating

experience with new types of design. BVwill class a series of oil/asphalt tankersfor Colombia to be built at the 3MAJshipyard, in Rijeka, Croatia.

Interesting deliveries during 2012 includedthe 37 m catamaran ferry MillenniumDiamond, built in Croatia to UK MCAstandards for transporting up to 600passengers on the River Thames.

The 104 teu container vessel For-Ever wasbuilt in Romania and fitted out at JoorenWharf in Werkendam. Designed for a fixedroute with bridge height restrictions thevessel has extra ballast capacity to reduceair height when passing low bridges.

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uu Experience with maintainingoffshore assets over their service

life has taught offshore operators two biglessons. The first is that the topside andhull structure must be integrated for initialdesign analysis, as-built supervision,certification, monitoring, inspection andmaintenance. The second big lesson isthat investment at the building stage inasset integrity management will pay backmany times over in reduced downtimeand maintenance costs in service.

Bureau Veritas has led the shift towardsintegrated classification, certification andlifetime asset integrity maintenance. A goodexample of this is Total’s CLOV FPSO. Korea’sDSME and Total entrusted structural integritymanagement tasks for the CLOV FPSO toBureau Veritas’ consultancy arm Tecnitas.This included compiling a complete record ofthe building showing all non-conformitiesand the preparation of a full FE model of thehull and topsides in its as-is condition ondelivery to Total, set for May 2013. That model will form the basis for an on-

going Risk-Based Inspection programmeand an Asset Integrity Maintenance schemeprovided by Bureau Veritas. Powerful toolssuch as the VeriSTAR HLC software willfocus inspection on relevant structuralareas, prepare inspection campaigns takinginto account the means of access, assessthe corrosion condition of the unit againstBV’s or user-defined criteria and managedata on the structure and topsides for thelong term in an open format.

Bureau Veritas is also certifying the risersand subsea systems for CLOV, which willbe in service off Angola later this year. It isthe first time all the classification andcertification of hull, topsides, moorings andsubsea systems has been fully integrated.

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PIERRE DE LIVOISTECHNICAL DIRECTOR AND HEAD OF OFFSHORE

We are unifying the way we validate, certify and class offshore energy assets, both fixed and floating. So it makes a lot of sense to unify all our expertise in this area under one direction. There aresynergies for our clients and synergies for our engineers.


s SS Amazonia, one of four drilling units moved to BV class by Schahin Petroleo.

s Belgian oil and gas operator Exmar willbuild, operate and maintain the PacificRubiales FLRSU to be located on theColombian Caribbean coast. The FLRSU will have a storage capacity of 16,000 cu m of LNG and will be able to accommodate alongside a larger LNG Floating Storage Unit and shuttle LNG carriers. Bureau Veritas will classthe entire project including hull andprocess plant.


built in 2010 by Korea’s Samsung HeavyIndustries and after customisation atKeppel Shipyard in Singapore wasdelivered in August 2011. OSX-1 oilproduction started in January 2012 inBrazil’s Campos Basin.

In Brazil Bureau Veritas is applying thisintegrated philosophy to a series ofFPSOs which are being built and fittedout for use by Petrobras in its very deeppre-salt fields.

In 2012 Bureau Veritas Brazil was awardedthe classification of two FPSOs, to beintegrated by the consortium Integra(Mendes Jr. / OSX ) and to be installed andoperated by Petrobras, in association withBG, GALP and REPSOL, in the pre-saltfields offshore Brazil, in the area of Santosbasin.

BV will survey of the integration of the hullwith the topsides modules. These FPSOsare named Replicantes as they are astandard design used for the first eightunits to be installed in the most importantarea of hydrocarbon discoveries ever inBrazil in a water depth of more than

2,000 m and with a drilling to oil totaldepth of almost 7,000 m below sea level.Production is due to start in 2016. TheFPSOs will all have a production rate of150,000 barrels per day and BV will classboth the topsides and the hull structure.

Building on its success with FPSOs in BrazilBureau Veritas has been chosen to class aseries of drilling units for Schahin Petroleo.SS Amazonia is the fourth unit from SchahinPetroleo moving class to BV since December2011, following Samsung drilling shipsCerrado and Sertão and semi-submersibleoffshore drilling unit SS Pantanal.

SS Amazonia is a fifth generation drillingsemi-submersible fitted with DP2 dynamicposition system and was delivered inChina in 2011 by Yantai CIMC RafflesOffshore, with the ability to drill to 7,500 min a water depth of 2,400 m.

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Bureau Veritas has led the shifttowards integratedclassification,certification andlifetime asset integritymaintenance.

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In China there is a similar pattern. BureauVeritas has been chosen to both class andcertify the CNOOC Enping 24-2 project,which includes an FPSO, a fixed platformand subsea pipelines. BV has classed allthe new FPSOs with turret systems in theSouth China Sea since 2000. Last year BValso won the classification and certificationof the Exmar Pacific Rubiales FLRSUproject which is building at Wison in China.

Integrating the supervision and care oftopsides and hulls makes sense, as doesadding risers and subsea equipment andinstallations to one package. That is whyBureau Veritas has also integrated its ownoffshore services, bringing together all itsoffshore energy activities under one unifiedgroup. Bureau Veritas Marine & OffshoreDivision will operate through a network of Technical Centres initially in Paris,Aberdeen, Rio de Janeiro and KualaLumpur, with Houston and other centres.The new centres will unite engineering and safety and risk knowledge for the

management of both fixed and floatingassets, risers, subsea, pipelines and plant.The new division will be able to deliverenhanced expertise in verification of safetycases, AIMS for fixed and floating structures,QHSE and ISO standards and a wide rangeof risk services tailored for offshore.

One key area of expertise for BureauVeritas’ offshore clients is in mooring,risers and technical assistance. BVprovided mooring analysis on ten separateoffshore projects in China alone during2012. There are only three companiesproviding flexible risers and umbilicalsoffshore and two of those chose BureauVeritas for type approval.

In Brazil Bureau Veritas continued to classthe building of the P-55 – the largestBrazilian production platform, which isunder construction at Estaleiro Rio Grandein Brazil and will come into operation in2013 in the Campos Basin. Floating LNG provided new work for

Bureau Veritas, including the entire PacificRubiales FLRSU project for Exmar. Thisproject will handle export gas forColombia. Bureau Veritas will class notonly the floater but the entire processplant under a new PROC notation. Allpressure vessels and piping are coveredby class.

In Australia Bureau Veritas was active withFLNG development for the Prelude projectfor Shell, for the Ichthys project where itwill provide independent validation onbehalf of Inpex and in the Bonaparte fieldwhere it is providing new technologyqualification for GDF Suez covering aliquefaction and loading/offloading systemfor the FLNG unit.

Two companies have also turned to BV forassistance with offshore gas projects, onefor new technology qualification and theother for FEED appraisal for a potentialFLNG unit in East Africa.

Integrating the marine and other offshoreactivities has considerably widened thescope of BV services which can now beaccessed by clients through one portal.To help clients and to help BV manage thewide range of services it is developing anew software tool, VeriSTAR Offshore


s Total’s CLOV FPSO is the first project where Bureau Veritas has integrated certification of the topsides, risers and subsea installation with classification of the hull of the floater.


Field Management, which will enabletracking of offshore fields block by blockto determine and predict which servicesare needed or under delivery at any timeacross the field.

In the North Sea Bureau Veritas has astrong position with verification of safetycases and risk services. Other examplesof offshore work include a contract in theDutch sector to certify three oil and gasproduction units and pipelines for GDFSuez. The project includes design approvalfor both platforms and pipelines andsurvey during construction and pipe lay.In the UK sector Bureau Veritas has been

awarded by GDF Suez E&P a contract toprovide design certification for the Cygnusdevelopment. The contract covers thefield’s design, production and safetysystems to ensure they are compliant withstatutory and non-statutory codes andstandards. It includes a stand-aloneplatform, subsea production system andflowlines and tie-in to ETS pipeline.

In Indonesia Total has awarded BV acontract for risk assessment studies for itsoffshore facilities in service. Bureau Veritaswill provide preliminary risk assessmentfor three platforms representative of otherassets in the listed fields, detailed riskassessment for all manned and normallyunmanned facilities platforms, sensitivitycases for detailed risk assessment, a riskreduction workshop, revision of riskanalysis and a major risk register andaction plan.

Bureau Veritas in Vietnam has beenawarded by Lam Son JOC a contract toprovide certification services of ThangLong - Dong Do development of wellheadplatform projects.

At the end of 2012 Bureau Veritas’ classedfleet of floating units in service for offshoreenergy totalled almost 900 units. Theyincluded thirty-seven FPSOs, nineteensemi-submersibles, thirty jack-up rigs,five drill ships, and over five hundredOSVs, plus supporting vessels such asfloating accommodation.

There are another 225 units underconstruction and sixty-three units undertransfer to BV class. Together thesefigures position Bureau Veritas as one of the top three providers of services tofloating units in offshore energy, and BV is growing its market share year onyear.

But floaters are only part of the story. The integration of Bureau Veritas’ risk,validation, certification and other servicesfor fixed offshore structures, fields,pipelines and process plants offshoredramatically increases the scale of servicesand expertise Bureau Veritas can provide to offshore operators, and makes it a globalleader with the expertise and scale tosupport any offshore development.

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u The BV classed 900,000 bblFPSO OSX-1, began productionduring 2012.

Bureau Veritas has led the shifttowards integratedclassification,certification andlifetime asset integritymaintenance.

We have to deliver first oil for Total, its partners and Sonangol by mid-2014.The FPSO is being built by DSME in Korea, and it then comes to Angola wherefor the first time a full module is being built and will be installed andcommissioned on the FPSO. The key element on this project is reliability. Weare working in water depths up to 1,400 metres and that means that toremove or replace any item is a huge task. So it is fundamental that we do itright the first time. BV will class the FPSO and off-loading buoy, certify themain equipment on the FPSO and also the subsea installation, all themoorings, risers and flowlines. It’s the first time we have done it all with onecertifying body and it gives us continuity across the project. BV is a reliablecompany, who we know we can trust. And most importantly, they are andthey stay fully independent from the vendors and the contractors. Theyhave their own view and maintain their independence as they control eachstep we take.

CASE STUDYGENEVIÈVE MOUILLERAT DIRECTOR OF THE ANGOLAN BLOCK 17 CLOV PROJECT, TOTAL


uuMarine renewable energy is anindustry still in formation. As such it

is in vital need of clear standards. That iswhy Bureau Veritas devoted its effortsduring 2012 to developing guidelines andstandards for wind farms and wind farmservice vessels. It also worked on guidancefor current energy converters to bepublished in spring 2013 and guidance onOTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Converters)for publication later in 2013.

In parallel with the Rules developmentactivity, BV continued research intoassessment of coupling responses offloating units subject to multiple types ofloading, which is especially applicable tofloating offshore wind turbines.

Only two international standards for marinerenewable energy have been agreed so far,and BV worked on both of them, IEC 62600-1: Wave, Tidal and Current converters -Terminology and IEC 62600-100: Waveenergy converters – power performanceassessment.

Bureau Veritas has published guidance fordesigners and builders of wind farm serviceships. Although some of the existing OffshoreService Vessel fleet can perform the tasksnecessary for developing and maintainingoffshore wind farms, there is an increasingneed for specialist craft. These will include

specialised vessels for servicing offshorewind farms. These will have particularcharacteristics and to be efficient they willhave to be new designs. That means theyneed new class rules and guidance fordesigners and yards. BV NI 589 Wind FarmsService Ships provides a service notation which covers ships specifically designed to operate in offshore wind farms for transferof personnel from shore, mother ships oraccommodation units to offshore wind farmsand perform lifting operations required for wind turbine servicing. The note does not cover vessels built for installation and assembling of wind turbines or heavy maintenance and repair for whichtransportation of wind turbine main parts is needed. Bureau Veritas has alreadypublished specific guidance for these vessels.

Bureau Veritas also published acomprehensive Guide on Offshore WindFarm Project Certification, which allowsindustry players and experts to make senseof the complex rules applying to certificationprocesses in the field of offshore wind farms.

The Guide on Offshore Wind Farm ProjectCertification spells out the mandatoryrequirements and steps to follow in order toobtain certification. It includes informationon a range of topics, including normativeand informative references; the project-certification process; the approach tocertification; site conditions and designevaluations; transportation and installationsurveillance; and, finally, the measurementof project characteristics.

Bureau Veritas can assist with a wide rangeof key aspects, from energy-yield predictionto the optimization of the wind-farm lay-out. The company can help the client entityto secure all the required authorizationsprior to starting the project in earnest.Bureau Veritas can also assist withenvironmental-impact studies andcollision-risk studies, which are a particularconcern for offshore wind energy. Getting the actual wind turbines typeapproved is a challenge, and Bureau Veritashas risen to that. It will provide wind turbinetype certification to IEC61400 standards inChina for turbines made by Sany Electric.


Bureau Veritasdevoted its effortsduring 2012 todeveloping guidelines andstandards for windfarms and wind farmservice vessels.

MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGY


uuEnhancing and applying a deeperknowledge of hydrodynamics and

hydro-elasticity were at the core of BureauVeritas’ R&D work for the offshore industry.The results were seen in improvements to three key software suites, HydroSTAR for sea keeping, HOMER for sea-structureinteraction and ARIANE for mooring analysis.These three tools and a major increasein available computational power enabledBureau Veritas to carry out complexcutting edge studies for a number ofoffshore developments.

A study of high frequency loads andresonance for Tension Leg Platforms wascompleted. There will be further work onspars and TLPs during 2013.Moonpools were put under the spotlightand the new analysis showed the effectsof wave motion on structure, motion,moorings and DP.

Good proven hydro-structure software likeHOMER overcomes the expense andlimitations of tank testing. It has beenused in 2012 for the verification of theBarents Sea Goliat project.During 2012 Bureau Veritas continued to actively support and lead COPEDI(Committee for Offshore Research,Development and Innovation) created inRio de Janeiro, Brazil. The group promotesinteraction between the industry and

research institutes to share experiencewith R&D projects and propose cooperativeprojects (JIPs). So far fourteen JIP projectshave been proposed and are securingfunding and detailing tasks and players.

A considerable amount of work was carriedout to further develop Bureau Veritas’expertise in Arctic and ice environments. BV’sIceSTAR software for ice-structure evaluationwas further enhanced with a module forassessment of hull structure load-carryingcapability and the addition of a probabilisticapproach for ice loads prediction. Jointprojects in which BV calculated ice loads forice and Arctic developments were carried outwith Korean yards DSME, STX and HHI. Ice

load predictions for fixed offshore structureswere provided for Technip and workprogressed on the high Arctic Yamal LNGproject. New standards were also researchedand developed for the Caspian Seaenvironment, with shallow brackish waterand sever weather.

Bureau Veritas kept itself at the cutting edgeof knowledge on moorings with increasedsophistication of its ARIANE mooring suitefor numerical calculations and modellingof mooring needs. The software can nowmanage DP and multi-body interactionsand in 2013 a new version will be developedfor use on board offshore units.

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CASE STUDYRAIMAR VAN DEN BYLAARDTTECHNOLOGY MANAGER, BRAZILIAN PETROLEUM, GAS AND BIOFUELS INSTITUTE (IBP)

IBP supports the activities of COPEDI (Offshore Committee for Research, Developmentand Innovation), a Bureau Veritas initiative established in 2011 to co-ordinatetechnological developments in the offshore sector in Brazil through JIPs (Joint IndustryProjects). IBP advises oil and gas companies, and others, in connection with areas whereit should carry out R&D in Brazil, in partnership with universities and research centres.We are currently organising a group of such companies, enabling them to contract, asa consortium, national companies that have the capability to produce equipment notyet manufactured locally. This facilitates development of the necessary technology toenlarge the product offering. In this way, we contribute to the increase in nationalcapability, which is a requirement of government policy for the oil and gas sector. COPEDI is an innovative idea to promote, through a private institution, the activities ofcompanies and research centres interested in enhancing R&D, and to encourageinnovation in Brazil. COPEDI brings together the participants, and explores the potentialfor R&D activity while encouraging technological development in the country.

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uuExpansion of offshore energy projectsof all types around the world drove a

massive increase in demand for consultancysupport. Tecnitas saw revenues rise twentyper cent globally, with most of the extra workcoming from studies for FPSOs and floatingLNG projects of different types.

For the Exmar-driven Pacific RubialesLNG FSRU project in Colombia, Tecnitascarried out a risk evaluation of maritimetraffic, including simulations of disabledships and collision risk and the deliveryof probabilities of problems and proposedcorrective actions.

For the Australian Ichthys gas project,Tecnitas carried out a gap analysis on classand local regulations for INPEX and alsoprovided engineers to the team under anoutsourcing deal.

For Italy’s ENI, Tecnitas prepared a guidancenote on FPSO construction.

Korea’s DSME and Total entrustedstructural integrity management tasksfor the CLOV FPSO to Tecnitas. Thisincluded compiling a complete record of

the building showing all non-conformitiesand the preparation of a full FE model ofthe hull and topsides in its as-is conditionon delivery to Total, set for May 2013.

Tecnitas also carried out flagging and towagefacilitation for the move of CLOV to its siteoff West Africa.

A major new technology simulation systemfor pipeline damage assessment wasdevised. EMPREINTE® allows from thescanning (or measurement) of pipelinedamage, to create a virtual impact tool tosimulate the impact by FE calculations andtherefore to obtain the stress and plasticstrain of the pipe, to calculate themaximum pressure at which the pipe canbe used. It is a vital decision-making toolwhich will cut downtime for pipeline repairs.

Tecnitas do Brazil continued to workclosely with Petrobras and renewed theGIEN contract till 2017, both outsourcingengineers and carrying out analyses andstudies for both new and converted units.Examples include the engineering servicesfor the P55 semisubmersible platformunder construction in Rio Grande Shipyard,

the execution of detailed inspection plansfor all the semisubmersible units.

Tecnitas carried out a pre-selectionassessment for the KAOMBO FPSOconversion project.

A new Tecnitas office was set up in Germanyto focus on the expanding wind farm market.It is outsourcing engineers to Siemens andcarrying out a number of projects which will assess and adapt shore-based HSEframeworks to the marine environment.Tecnitas is helping in the UK, France andGermany to resolve conflicts betweenonshore and offshore regulations as theyapply to wind farms and wind farmmaintenance.

Other wind farm work on behalf of EDF wasto carry out risk studies for a wind turbineevaluation site near Fos, off the FrenchMediterranean coast, and to evaluate the riskand problems of ship collision with proposedtidal flow generators to be installed nearCherbourg, off the north coast of France.Tecnitas uses DRIFTECH software adapted tosimulate the behaviour of disabled ships inexpected environmental conditions.

CONSULTANCY& OUTSOURCING

JEAN-PIERRE JAUNETCEO, TECNITAS

Global demand for high technology consulting serviceswas up hugely last year, driven by offshore energy.


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