Ice tool launch

Classification society Bureau Veritas has responded to demand for safe LNG transportation in the Arctic regions by developing new high-level tools to assess cargo sloshing in ice conditions. It has also developed a cutting-edge probabilistic method for assessing ice loads on structure which will reduce the time and data needed to assess the structure of vessels and units designed for heavy ice operation. A new module for Bureau Veritas’ IceSTAR ice load calculation tool will calculate the kinetic energy imparted to the cargo by a collision with ice.