Industry teams up to advance structural safety

Class societies and software suppliers are working to ease the introduction of the harmonised common structural rules for tankers and bulk carriers, and there will be changes to come for container ships, says Wendy Laursen.

Roberto Cazzulo: Even very traditional ship types like bulk carriers and tankers have plenty of room for design changes.

Class societies and software suppliers are working to ease the introduction of the harmonised common structural rules for tankers and bulk carriers, and there will be changes to come for container ships, says Wendy Laursen.