HAMBURG and SHANGHAI, June 16 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Germanischer Lloyd (GL) announced two new branch companies were established in April 2009 in Shanghai: Germanischer Lloyd Classification Society (China) Co. Ltd. and Germanischer Lloyd Industrial Services (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Both converted from previous representative offices set up in 1994 and 2005 respectively, these newly registered companies represent GL’s long-term commitment to the Chinese market and its clients while enabling them an easier access to GL’s world class expertise and tailor-made services.
Germanischer Lloyd (GL) is an international technical assurance and consulting company as well as a ship classification society. The company with its head office in Hamburg, Germany, employs more than 6,400 highly skilled engineers. The global network consists of 208 locations around the globe, some of them in Greater China alone. The companies serve clients from oil and gas companies, contractors, shipyards, ship owners, consultants, designers and financial institutions across the marine and energy industries.
Maritime Services
“This is another significant milestone we’ve accomplished since the establishment of our rep offices in China,” said the Country Manager of China. “GL enjoys a leadership position in many areas of maritime and industrial services and we expect to further service our clients with more of our technical know-how, enriched product portfolios and at a much higher quality level.”
GL Classification Society (China) Co. Ltd, a leading provider of ship classification in China, serves a large number of premier shipyards and shipping companies through surveyors and engineers in 13 service stations across the country. Besides its conventional first-class services including plan approval, inspections of materials and components, and regular assessments of the technical condition of ships in service, the company has increasingly focused on energy efficiency and marine environmental protection by offering innovative solutions.
“Despite the global financial crisis, we’ve never ceased our efforts to help our clients mitigate the ensuing effects and address their current and future challenges, especially in the Chinese market which we believe still has great potential and rising needs for technical innovations and upgrade,” the Country Manager of China said.
Industrial Services
Recently, GL Industrial Services has accelerated its pace of strategic acquisition to broaden its service spectrum and establish market leadership. “We will prove to be a valuable part of the global network of GL Industrial Services as more and more Chinese clients find our technology cutting-edge and really practical. The market is presenting us new opportunities. For instance, China’s increasing focus on renewable energy means GL will have a greater role to play, especially in the field of wind energy,” said Wolfgang Wu Yi, the Country Manager of China. GL offers sophisticated services enhancing the safety, integrity, reliability and performance of its clients’ assets, primarily related to energy production, storage and transportation.
About Germanischer Lloyd
Established since 1867 in Hamburg, Germany, Germanischer Lloyd (GL) employs over 6000 staff in more than 200 offices in 80 countries worldwide. Originally founded as a marine classification society, the Group now comprises a Maritime Services and an Industrial Services business.
Ship owners, shipyards, the maritime supply industry and some 130 flag states are the primary customers of Germanischer Lloyd’s ship classification activities. Its ship register contains a large number of containerships, multi-purpose vessels and high speed crafts, tanker and bulk carries as well as navy vessels including submarines.
GL is dedicated to ensuring the safety of life and property at sea, and the prevention of pollution of the marine environment. Being an independent third party, GL is a dynamic, innovative, forward-thinking, expansion-minded organisation focusing on developing state of the art rules, procedures and guidance in order to offer relevant answers in times of economic challenges and tight regulatory regimes. The number of vessels which are surveyed by GL experts is close to 6,700 with 77 million GT.
The Industrial Services business offers a full range of sophisticated technical expertise in a tailor made fashion addressing all relevant safety and risk issues of installations related to energy production storage and transportation.
As a global engineering consultancy, independent certification body and third party inspection in the oil and gas as well as the renewable energy sectors, the GL Group offers a ‘one stop shopping’ approach for its worldwide customer base including comprehensive technical services across the asset life cycle.
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