Environmental protection, prevention of marine pollution and enhanced ship safety is put into practice in the field of fuel oil tank protection.
The shipowners’ commitment to comply with an exceeding range of international standards can now be applied with Germanischer Lloyd’s new service for fuel oil tank protection: Apart from drawing pre-checks, the classification society offers design optimization helping to meet the new MARPOL requirements on fuel oil tanks and therefore improve the environmental safety of the ship. Additionally, the experts pay special attention to technical solutions, which reduce the economical impact on the design. The revision of MARPOL Annex I Regulation 12A specifies the design requirements for fuel oil tanks in ship newbuildings. It sets the requirements concerning the location and size of the fuel tanks in all ships with an aggregate oil fuel capacity of 600 m³ and above. The application of the regulation includes ships whose building contract was signed on or after 1 August 2007 or delivery is scheduled on or after 1 August 2010. In absence of a building contract, the regulation is applicable to keels, which are laid on or after 1 February 2008. To minimize the economic impact on ship owners, the regulation defines two alternative design approaches: a rather pragmatic set of descriptive rules, and a more sophisticated probabilistic approach. Both methods provide equivalent degrees of protection.
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