By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Japanese classification society ClassNK is claiming a “world-first” breakthrough finding in the required crack arrest toughness of steel plates used in the construction of ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs). In response to the huge increases in containership sizes over the past decade and the need to ensure their structural reliability, […]

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