PRS supervising the first “Kormoran”On September 25, 2013 the Gdańsk shipyard Remontowa Shipbuilding, a member of the consortium established to build the Kormoran II-class minehunter for the Polish Navy, signed an agreement with Polish Register of Shipping for classification supervision of the ship construction.
Other members of the consortium comprise Naval Shipyard Gdynia and R&D Marine Technology Centre (CTM).
Several factors contributed to the choice of PRS as the assigned classification society. Among them is the fact that PRS has a complete set of own Rules for Classification and Construction of Navy Ships. They account for all applicable classification and statutory requirements, relevant standards, military and civil procedures both national and international, including NATO, EU and UN.
Another significant factor involved earlier PRS experience in cooperating with the Polish Navy and the shipyard Remontowa Shipbuilding. Several years back the shipyard, than operating under the name Northern Shipyard, built several ships for the Polish Navy with some of them under PRS supervision in cooperation with military supervision.
Polski Rejestr Statków is well prepared to serve the navy forces both in Poland and abroad providing assistance in technical supervision of newbuildings – ships and other offshore structures as well as land based structures. Meeting the requirements of provisions given in the Act on classified information PRS approves documentation for compliance with military standards (inter alia defence norms, NATO standardising documents) referred to in the tactic and technical requirements for navy ships and special purpose ships.
Depending on customer expectations PRS may provide full or limited, to a defined area, supervision over ships, or offshore structures.
PRS is a founder member of the International Naval Safety Association (INSA) established in 2008 and participates in meetings and work on the Naval Ship Code – ANEP-77, often referred to as NAVAL SOLAS – a military counterpart of IMO SOLAS.
Today INSA embraces the navies of 10 states and eight classification societies based in NATO countries associated in the Naval Ship Classification Association (NSCA).
INSA and NSCA, in cooperation with NATO structures, are developing NAVAL MARPOL (the counterpart of IMO MARPOL) and working on the Naval Submarine Code.
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