Class and industry respond to fast growth in walk-to-work sector

摘要

September 2016 saw Lloyd's Register (LR) introduce a range of class notations for offshore support vessels (OSVs) to reflect their development and changing service features, while retaining established notations. The new notations cover vessels intended to operate in the renewables sector, for example, those servicing the offshore wind market. LR has also launched the special feature notation W2W (walk-to-work), which is applicable to personnel transfer systems. These systems are now increasingly used not only in the renewables sector but also in the oil and gas sector.