Three years of combining the marine departments of Germany’s Germanischer Lloyd and Norway’s Det Norske Veritas (DNV) does not seem to have affected the quality of its classified fleet.
Concern was voiced about the possible effects on quality of merging two giant societies to become the industry’s largest — but that does not seem to have happened.
The Paris Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) ranked DNV GL as the best-performing recognised organisation in 2015 in terms of its port-state-control (PSC) performance for the second year running.
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