{"id":7319,"date":"2020-04-03T06:08:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T03:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/irclass-1st-ship-classed-under-lebanese-flag\/7319\/"},"modified":"2020-04-03T06:08:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T03:08:54","slug":"irclass-1st-ship-classed-under-lebanese-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/irclass-1st-ship-classed-under-lebanese-flag\/7319\/","title":{"rendered":"IRClass: 1st Ship Classed under Lebanese Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ship classification society Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass) has classed its first vessel under the Lebanese flag.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Named Jouri, the ship was converted from a vehicle carrier to a livestock carrier under the survey of IRClass which included structural modification, plan approval and reapproval of stability conditions.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Jouri is owned by Etab Shipping S.A. and managed by M\/s Safe Sea Service S.A.R.L Beirut.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>According to IRClass, the modification process was complicated and carried out under the close supervision of its surveyors.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe project took around 4 months to complete, including overcoming technical challenges like the location of permanent ballast and arrangement for storage of cattle feed to take into account the stability of the vessel,\u201d<\/em> Rajeev Pratap Rao, IRClass\u2019 Regional Manager for Middle East and Africa, said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cClass societies are increasingly being seen not just as regulators but also as enablers and this project is a perfect example of this with our plan approval team and surveyors using their technical expertise to advise and guide the modification team.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAs this project was such a success we are now working on a similar conversion for the City of Barcelona,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1975, IRClass provides ship classification and certification as well as technical inspection services. It is a member of\u00a0the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS).<\/p>\n<p>world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ship classification society Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass) has classed its first vessel under the Lebanese flag. Named Jouri, the ship was converted from a vehicle carrier to a livestock carrier under the survey of IRClass which included structural modification, plan approval and reapproval of stability conditions. Jouri is owned by Etab Shipping S.A. and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2436,4155,1419,907,4156,1070],"class_list":["post-7319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-1st","tag-classed","tag-flag","tag-irclass","tag-lebanese","tag-ship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/7320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}