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In the 2012 consistency of the fleet in class ABS it is gone up of 4% to 193,5 million tsl
Somerville: "in spite of the uncertainties of the world-wide economy and the markets of the shipping and the offshore one, ABS has exited with another performance record"
April 24, 2013
At the end last year the fleet in class ABS has reached a consistency pairs to 193,5 million tons of tonnage, with an increment of 4% regarding on December 31, 2011. "In spite of the uncertainties of the world-wide economy and the markets of the shipping and offshore - it has commented the chairman of the society of American classification American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), Robert D. Somerville - the ABS record has exited with another performance".
The American company has emphasized to have maintained in 2012 own leadership in the field of the orderbook world-wide of ships, as last year the quota ships in class ABS on all the tidy units world-wise has been pairs to 21% (20.9% in 2011). Moreover ABS has evidenced that, with almost 70% of own fleet constituted from ships of inferior age to ten years, the society has one of the young fleets.
"ABS - it has found the president and managing director of the company, Christopher J. Wiernicki - archived item the 2012 has solid rooted which second one main society in terms of tons of tonnage in class and as the main society in terms of new tonnage in order".
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