RINA and VOS cooperation allows continuity of Class certification in “Remote”
The shipping industry is constantly embracing and implementing digitalisation to streamline operations, providing safe and efficient logistics solutions and optimising operating costs. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that business continuity can only be guaranteed by those players who firmly invest in connectivity, smart applications and integrated platforms.
“One of the key tasks of any ship operator is ensuring its vessels are kept fully classed and certified. To guarantee this, we need to overcome movement-limitations in order to keep operating our assets as usual”, says Cristiano Vattuone, Manager Ship Management at Vroon Offshore Services (VOS) Srl. Based in Genoa (Italy), VOS Srl handles integrated management services for a fleet of 16 Offshore-Support Vessels (OSV).
In order to maintain this continuity, VOS Srl has strengthened its collaboration with Classification Society RINA. Among the leaders in its sector, the company has developed a pioneering additional Class notation, named “Remote”, that enables ship operators to perform periodical Class surveys in remote, thereby bringing the certification-process “to the next digital level”.
The process starts with RINA’s review of a vessel’s overall performance, HSE (healthy, safety and environment) statistics, PSC (port state control) observations and non-conformities from previous audits. Once a ship operator and its managed vessels are deemed eligible for the “Remote” notation, an assignment-survey can effectively begin.
