Japanese ship classification society Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) announced last Friday the establishment of two new offices in Africa and the Middle East this month.
The first is a new office in Accra, Ghana, which will officially open on December 25th, while the other is in Tehran, Iran, which will open on December 31st.
ClassNK Chairman and President Noboru Ueda noted that “the establishment of the new office in Accra will make it possible to provide more timely and effective service to the Gold Coast region of Western Africa. Currently, it takes at least seven hours for surveyors from our Durban Office just to arrive on site before they can conduct surveys and audits in the region. The establishment of a base in Accra will enable ClassNK to much more easily and meet the growing needs of our clients in the region.”
He went on to say that the new office in Tehran “will not only serve to facilitate ClassNK’s ability to accommodate requests for surveys and other services in Iran and neighboring areas but will also be an important base for providing technical services and support shipping companies in the country and beyond.”
Establishment of the two offices further reinforces ClassNK’s service network by becoming, respectively, the 108 th and 109 th offices of the NK global network, the society said.
They also supplement the eleven other ClassNK offices already present in Africa and the Middle East, it added.
