What Is the Certification of Shipboard Cable?

In order to be able to dwell in the business industry concerning shipboard cables, certifications are an integral part of it all.

Having certifications made it easy to comfortably progress the business without the fear of authorities.

Shipboard cables have a number of certifications, a number of which are listed below:

ABS, BV, DNV-GL, CCS, RINA, NK, RS, LR

• ABS certification:

ABS or American Bureau of Shipping is responsible for making and implementing safety rules and guidelines, as well as standards and criteria for the structure, machinery, material, construction as well as designs of the watercraft.

These rules and standards are written by ABS staff and the International Association of Classification.

These are then approved by a consortium consisting of marine engineers, marine architects, shipbuilders, marine engine builders, and other individuals who are closely associated with the worldwide marine industry.

ABS certification of individual material, system, companies, occurs through a series of evaluations and surveys

• BV certification:

Like that of ABS, BV or Bureau Veritas also has a set of rules and guidelines written.

In order to become the recipient of the BV certificate, those rules need to be followed and certain criteria to be met.

Bureau Veritas is responsible of introducing new technology in the industry of inspection, testing, and certification.

• DNV-GL:

DNV-GL is the maritime industry’s leading certification agency.

They are especially concerned with the certification of materials and components.

For more thorough research, you can refer to the following link to their official website.

https://www.dnvgl.com/maritime/certification-materials-components.html#Certification

• CCS:

Like the other above mentioned certification bodies, CCS is also an inspection-based certification body whose main focus lies in product testing.

This product inspection can either be individual or batch-based.

The inspected products are then classified into one of the following four categories:

Marine Products Certificate, Equivalent Certificate, Inspection Certificate, Test Certificate.

For more research, you are referred to the official website of the CCS.

https://www.ccs.org.cn/ccswzen/font/fontAction!moudleIndex.do?moudleId=56

• RINA:

RINA is one of the topmost inspection and certification bodies, and like all the above-mentioned bodies, for RINA certificate, certain rules are to be followed and certain criteria to be filled.

For further information, the official RINA website is linked below;

https://www.rina.org/en/business/marine

• NK

NK is considered one of the important marine certification agencies.

https://www.classnk.com/hp/en/authentication/maritime/index.html

• RS

RS or Russian Maritime Register of Shipping is also a certification and testing body.

https://rs-class.org/en/

• LR

LR or Lloyd’s Register is considered one of the oldest certification body.

https://www.lr.org/en/