CEO of Bureau Veritas for China: Chinese ship company leads the future of shipbuilding technology

Claude added that in 1828, Bureau Veritas itself started as an information bureau for evaluating the risk maritime insurance should take.

In 1993, Bureau Veritas restarted its operations in China with marine activity, and thanks to reform and opening up, it could also develop other sectors of service such as inspection, classification and certification.

“Bureau Veritas is among the biggest foreign classification societies introduced by China. We have a lot of links with China Classification Society and cooperate within the international classification societies to improve ship inspection standards. Many cooperation, innovation and training agreements have been established between Chinese and foreign classification societies,” said Claude.

As Claude noted, in recent years Shanghai has built the Yangshan Deepwater Port, the world's largest intelligent container terminal, and has developed into one of the world's largest ports. In 2017, seven of the world’s top ten ports were located in China. The annual container throughput of Shanghai Port exceeded 40 million TEUs, the largest in the world. “Shanghai's R&D atmosphere is active, the innovation of the shipping industry leads the world, and the institutions serving the shipping industry are also developing rapidly. All of this makes Shanghai a key leader in the shipping industry and helps Shanghai to build an international shipping center,” said Claude.

Phase IV of the Yangshan deepwater port