Decades of work in building business relationships in the West is starting to pay off for the Korean Register (KR).

As business activity began to pick up after the Covid-19 lockdown, the Busan-based classification society concluded a series of classification contracts for newbuildings involving well-known shipping names.

Among the most recent deals, KR agreed to provide classification services for two 7,600-ceu car carriers for Ray Car Carriers, four 8,000-teu container ships from Danaos and a series of MR tankers from Singapore-based Navig8.