The Fea Guide News

The guide is an outgrowth from ABS’ work with the principal Asian shipyards developing new aframax ice class tanker designs in response to the increased traffic in the Baltic. Growing oil exports from the Russian port of Primorsk and Sakhalin have prompted a marked increase in the number of new tankers on order with ice strengthening to allow more flexible trading. Additionally, operators are taking into consideration the 2010 IMO imposed single hull phase-out deadline as they renew their aframax fleets. “The FEA Guide allows us to perform direct calculations for developing alternative structural arrangements that are more producible than those developed from the prescriptive rules,” says Akira Akiyama, Vice President, Technology & Business Development, ABS Pacific.

The guide is an outgrowth from ABS’ work with the principal Asian shipyards developing new aframax ice class tanker designs in response to the increased traffic in the Baltic. Growing oil exports from the Russian port of Primorsk and Sakhalin have prompted a marked increase in the number of new tankers on order with ice strengthening to allow more flexible trading. Additionally, operators are taking into consideration the 2010 IMO imposed single hull phase-out deadline as they renew their aframax fleets.