GL suggests tanker changes

摘要

Germanischer Lloyd presented what it termed "a novel holistic tanker design procedure" during its Hellenic Technical Committee meeting, held in April.rnIn a joint presentation, Dr Pierre Sames, GL senior vice president strategic research and development, and Professor Apostolos Papanikolaou, director ship design laboratory of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), outlined a formal safety assessment study carried out for a tanker design whose main objective had been to enhance cargo transport efficiency and environmental safety characteristics.