Quality Assurance Services News

Management software: vendors, consultants, class strive to provide turnkey service. Unless you’ve been lost at sea for the last few years, you know about Subchapter M. You know the June publication of the U.S. Coast Guard’s regulations for ensuring minimum safety standards on tows and tugs, which will extend inspection requirements to the majority of these vessels for the first time, moved the long-awaited, and in some cases, dreaded program from the haze of eventually out into the cold light of day.

After undergoing extensive assessments, classification society ClassNK has received accreditation from the UK-based national accreditation body UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) as an EU MRV verifier, effective as of March 1, 2017. EU MRV is an EU regulation on the monitoring, reporting and verification of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from vessels, which first entered into force on July 1, 2015. This regulation lays down rules for developing Monitoring Plans and for…

South Carolina Ports Authority reported fiscal year-over-year growth through February, with 4.4 percent gains in container volume since the 2016 fiscal year began in July. SCPA handled 157,962 twenty foot-equivalent units (TEUs) in February, an increase of 3.3 percent over February 2015. SCPA's total fiscal year-to-date container volume reached nearly 1.28 million TEUs last month, compared to 1.23 TEUs handled during the same period last year. Pier container volume, or boxes handled, totaled 88,643 containers in February. Fiscal year to date, 721,810 total containers have moved across the docks of SCPA's two container terminals. "February volumes showed modest increases over last year…

Global Diving & Salvage has announced the addition of Global Technical Services (GTS) to its three core services: marine construction, marine casualty response and offshore support. GTS is offering a wide range of Non Destructive Testing (NDT) instruction services to industry clients in coordination with Alaska Technical. Courses will offered to energy company, aviation, rail and infrastructure clients and will include visual, magnetic particle, dye penetrant, ultrasonic, radiography, radiographic film interpretation and eddy current courses.

Julien Citywide, New Orleans, La., was awarded on Nov. 7, 2005, an $11,741,320 firm-fixed-price contract for quality assurance services in support of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Work will be performed in Louisiana, and is expected to be completed by Nov. 6, 2006. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were an unknown number of bids solicited on Oct. 5, 2005, and 98 bids were received. The Louisiana Recovery Field Office, Baton Rouge, La., is the contracting activity (W912P8-06-C-0031).

Mobile Engineering Inc., Mobile, Ala., was awarded on Nov. 9, 2005, a $12,250,860 firm-fixed-price contract for quality assurance services in support of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Work will be performed in Louisiana, and is expected to be completed by Nov. 7, 2006. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were an unknown number of bids solicited on Oct. 5, 2005, and 98 bids were received. The Louisiana recovery field office, Baton Rouge, La., is the contracting activity (W912P8-06-C-0036).

Gotech, Baton Rouge, La., was awarded on Nov. 9, 2005, a $12,445,551 firm-fixed-price contract for quality assurance services in Support of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Work will be performed in Louisiana, and is expected to be completed by Nov. 6, 2006. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were an unknown number of bids solicited on Oct. 5, 2005, and 98 bids were received. The Louisiana recovery field office, Baton Rouge, La., is the contracting activity (W912P8-06-C-0035).