ClassNK and leading global maritime software company NAPA have announced a new joint project to reduce the time and cost of designing vessels in accordance with the new IACS harmonised Common Structural Rules. The new project will enhance the data linkage between ClassNK’s PrimeShip-HULL(HCSR) design support software with NAPA’s 3D model based integrated design software NAPA Steel greatly improving the efficiency of the ship design process and reducing the cost of designing vessels in accordance with the new rules.
DECEMBER 5, 2014 — The Paris MOU Secretariat said yesterday that two ships had been banned from the Paris MOU region. In both cases the ships had been detained by port state control authorities in the region for the third time within 36 months.
On November 24, 2014 M/V Letfallah III was detained in Pula (Croatia). This is the third detention in the Paris MoU region within the last 36 months. The ship flies the flag of Tanzania which is black on the current Paris MoU WGB list. The ship will be refused further access to any port and anchorages in the Paris MoU