REGULATION

A necessary start with some unnecessary confusion

The latest draft of the Polar Code has been met with mixed feelings, says Wendy Laursen.

Ship designers have the Polar Code as well as a lot of other IMO rule development to take into account. Credit Aker Arctic Technology Inc.

Andrew Kendrick, vice president of operations at Vard Marine, recently compared the time taken to develop the Polar Code to the time it would take for a snail to crawl from London to the North Pole. The snail won.

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