Japanese classification society ClassNK has occupied many headlines in 2015 thanks to their proactive approach to supporting the newbuildings for the global shipping fleet to achieve safe, green and complaint operations upon delivery into the market.
ClassNK’s predominant efforts towards prospering the construction of greener ships manifests through the provision of innovative software solutions that are provided free of charge to shipyards. To date 125 shipyards have been in receipt of ClassNK’s software.
In May 2015, the class society released the PrimeShip-GREEN/ProSTA software. This software helps shipyards analyse and calculate a ship’s speed trial results for EEDI calculation in compliance with the new harmonized international standard ISO 15016:2015 and reduces the workload required for EEDI calculation.
They also released the PrimeShip-GREEN/MinPower software in April 2014 to help shipyards comply with EEDI requirements by calculating the added resistance in irregular waves, allowing for minimum propulsion power requirements to be determined to an even greater accuracy.
