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Lloyd’s Register Classification Society (China, [LRCS]) and International Paint have delivered their 60th training course aimed at bringing Chinese shipyards up to speed with the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) new Performance Standard for Protective Coatings (PSPC) on commercial ships.
The joint initiative, which ultimately promotes safe and sustainable shipping, has in its first two years re-enforced the reputations of the entities of the Lloyd’s Register Group as the first to provide timely technical advice to industries in the energy and transportation supply chains.
"When the IMO adopted the new PSPC regulations almost four years ago, a huge task stood before the global shipbuilding community, with very little time in which to meet the challenge," said Nick Brown, LRCS Country and Marine Manager, China. "But thanks to the gap analyses we provide with International Paint, China’s top yards now have a clear roadmap to PSPC compliance."
The gap analyses, which assess a shipyard’s current coating practices against the new regulatory requirements, have been conducted at Chinese yards from Dalian to Guangzhou, as far west as Chongqing, and east to Zhoushan.
The regulations comprise new rules for coating ballast tanks, including some minimum requirements for treatment of the tanks’ steel surfaces. And they soon will be expanded to include the coatings on crude oil tanks used for cargo transport.
"These PSPC gap analyses were invaluable to us. The intensive process outlined our strengths and weaknesses relative to the new regulations, allowing us to apply our resources in the most efficient way as we worked towards becoming compliant with the regulations," said Ni Heng-Liang, General Manager of the COSCO Shipyard Group’s Technical Centre. "It proved to be a very strategic approach, and the kind of quality and timely technical support we have come to expect from the Lloyd’s Register Group and International Paint."
Ni said the COSCO Shipyard Group paid close attention to implementing the PSPC regulations, establishing a working group headed by its chief engineer and deputies from the relevant departments. They had also established yard-specific implementation teams.
Aided by the gap analysis, the working group identified a roadmap to improvement and prepared detailed implementation plans, the progress of which was reviewed monthly. Four of the COSCO Shipyard Group’s leading yards – situated in Guangzhou, Zhoushan, Nantong and Dalian-- have undertaken the gap analysis offered by LRCS and International Paint.
In June, the Lloyd’s Register -International Paint initiative delivered its 100th PSPC gap analyses to yards across the world, including 55 facilities in Europe.
"After the gap analysis, the next step that China’s leading shipyards can take is to get certified to the PSPC regulations -- or what we call the 2nd generation gap-analysis -- which again is a joint effort between International Paint and LRCS," said Brown.
The first PSPC-compliant ship in China certified by the LRCS team was delivered on November 7 from STX Dalian.
To help builders prepare for the analysis, LRCS and International Paint jointly delivered first-phase presentations to the yards’ senior management and departmental managers.
The presentations were a key to the subsequent analyses because they made clear to management that all levels of the workforce needed to be involved – not just the painters -- to meet the requirements of the PSPC and to maximise the efficiency of all departments from design, procurement and quality to steelwork, outfitting and production.
Lloyd’s Register Classification Society (China, [LRCS]) and International Paint have delivered their 60th training course aimed at bringing Chinese shipyards up to speed with the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) new Performance Standard for Protective Coatings (PSPC) on commercial ships.
The joint initiative, which ultimately promotes safe and sustainable shipping, has in its first two years re-enforced the reputations of the entities of the Lloyd’s Register Group as the first to provide timely technical advice to industries in the energy and transportation supply chains.
"When the IMO adopted the new PSPC regulations almost four years ago, a huge task stood before the global shipbuilding community, with very little time in which to meet the challenge," said Nick Brown, LRCS Country and Marine Manager, China. "But thanks to the gap analyses we provide with International Paint, China’s top yards now have a clear roadmap to PSPC compliance."
The gap analyses, which assess a shipyard’s current coating practices against the new regulatory requirements, have been conducted at Chinese yards from Dalian to Guangzhou, as far west as Chongqing, and east to Zhoushan.
The regulations comprise new rules for coating ballast tanks, including some minimum requirements for treatment of the tanks’ steel surfaces. And they soon will be expanded to include the coatings on crude oil tanks used for cargo transport.
"These PSPC gap analyses were invaluable to us. The intensive process outlined our strengths and weaknesses relative to the new regulations, allowing us to apply our resources in the most efficient way as we worked towards becoming compliant with the regulations," said Ni Heng-Liang, General Manager of the COSCO Shipyard Group’s Technical Centre. "It proved to be a very strategic approach, and the kind of quality and timely technical support we have come to expect from the Lloyd’s Register Group and International Paint."
Ni said the COSCO Shipyard Group paid close attention to implementing the PSPC regulations, establishing a working group headed by its chief engineer and deputies from the relevant departments. They had also established yard-specific implementation teams.
Aided by the gap analysis, the working group identified a roadmap to improvement and prepared detailed implementation plans, the progress of which was reviewed monthly. Four of the COSCO Shipyard Group’s leading yards – situated in Guangzhou, Zhoushan, Nantong and Dalian-- have undertaken the gap analysis offered by LRCS and International Paint.
In June, the Lloyd’s Register -International Paint initiative delivered its 100th PSPC gap analyses to yards across the world, including 55 facilities in Europe.
"After the gap analysis, the next step that China’s leading shipyards can take is to get certified to the PSPC regulations -- or what we call the 2nd generation gap-analysis -- which again is a joint effort between International Paint and LRCS," said Brown.
The first PSPC-compliant ship in China certified by the LRCS team was delivered on November 7 from STX Dalian.
To help builders prepare for the analysis, LRCS and International Paint jointly delivered first-phase presentations to the yards’ senior management and departmental managers.
The presentations were a key to the subsequent analyses because they made clear to management that all levels of the workforce needed to be involved – not just the painters -- to meet the requirements of the PSPC and to maximise the efficiency of all departments from design, procurement and quality to steelwork, outfitting and production.
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