Marine Industry Solutions
Experience for Every Stage of Your Asset Lifecycle
For any vessel type, operating area or construction location, ABS Group offers decades of expertise in delivering safety, reliability and integrity services to marine asset owners and operators throughout the project lifecycle—from concept, through newbuild planning, to decommissioning. Our marine specialists are recognized as an international authority in the maritime shipping community, contributing to maritime safety for more than 150 years.
Improving Efficiency and Performance for Global Fleets
We combine a detailed understanding of marine technical operations with engineering and naval architecture to help ship owners and operators achieve quality performance within reasonable schedule and cost parameters. Our global team leverages technology and years of experience to help clients maximize their return on investment.
Our marine services include feasibility studies, independent engineering review and analysis, construction monitoring, regulatory compliance guidance and third-party inspections.
Our Services
Alternate Fuels and CCUS
Accelerate Your Sustainability Journey
Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) and Alternative Fuels (AF) are critical emissions reduction strategies that can be applied across the energy system to drive net-zero momentum.
We combine CCUS and AF with the technical capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI), quantitative risk and reliability, and engineering design and inspection to uncover risk scenarios that can guide you in developing key decarbonization strategy plans.
Services Include:
- Decarbonization strategy development
- Risk-based inspection and technical verification
- Risk assessment and safety studies
- AI-driven safety and sustainability performance prediction
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Condition Surveys and Inspections
Optimize Asset Integrity and Maintain Compliance
Protect the value of your marine assets and minimize business interruptions by managing your operational, security and catastrophic risks. We perform surveys and inspections to help our clients maintain asset integrity and protect their employees and the public.
For clients selling or purchasing marine assets, shipboard surveys provide valuable information as to a vessel's condition and fair market value. Often performed on short notice, a shipboard survey is crucial to evaluate the condition of the ship and its associated machinery. Since offers are often valid for a short period only, the information is critical when determining a counteroffer to the asking price.
ABS Group's appraisers are members of the American Society of Appraisers and proficient in the application of the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice as promoted by The Appraisal Foundation. Our appraisers are supported by a team of marine experts, naval architects, professional marine surveyors and industry technical experts.
Services to assist with determining fair market value, remaining useful life, residual value and replacement cost include:
- General condition survey
- Pre-purchase condition survey
- On-hire and off-hire charterer condition survey
- Protection and indemnity condition survey
- Damage survey
- Inclining experiment
- Worldwide survey coverage on all sizes and types of vessels
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Environmental Management Services (EMS)
Supporting Environmental Compliance
Every organization has operational quality standards, especially in the areas of safety, security and environmental protection. Our years of experience working with regulatory bodies and understanding their policies and procedures enable us to assist vessel owners with meeting the latest industry requirements.
We have helped implement effective environmental strategies to improve safety, enhance service quality and minimize the environmental impact of their activities
Services Include:
- Environmental Management Plans
- Environmental Compliance Audits
- Environmental Program Management
- Environmental Training
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LNG Services
Solutions to Optimize LNG Assets
Our core business is to deliver best-in-class risk and reliability services to help LNG facility managers, vessel owners and terminal operators develop intelligent maintenance and integrity programs to secure their assets.
Services Include:
- Concept/FEED - Contract
- Engineering
- Fabrication, Construction and Installation
- Operations and Maintenance
- End of Life
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Ports & Terminals
Optimize Asset Integrity and Maintain Compliance
To ensure a resilient and efficient organization in an increasingly competitive industry, seaports and terminals turn to ABS Group to identify, prioritize and mitigate risk.
Services Include:
- Concept/FEED
- Engineering
- Fabrication, Construction and Installation
- Operations and Mainenance
- End of Life
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Project Due Diligence
Understand the Risk Exposure When Financing EPC Projects
Our marine clients use these services to identify ways to protect their financial exposure, maximize their return on investment (ROI) and complete the project efficiently.
Project due diligence services provided by ABS Group include:
- Feasibility studies
- Independent engineering review and analysis
- Construction monitoring
- Regulatory compliance guidance
- Third-party inspections
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Risk Management
Manage Risk Through Prevention and Mitigation
ABS Group's Safety, Risk and Compliance services help you manage diverse risks to minimize interruptions to your operations. Our practical engineering, technology and risk-based solutions follow applicable International Safety Management Code requirements and guidelines to help you comply with industry standards and regulations.
We help marine clients manage risk through prevention and mitigation strategies using tools such as HAZID and HAZOP, as well as fleet and safety assessments, to identify potential issues, develop risk scenarios and analyze consequences. When an incident does occur, we apply industry best practices and advanced technologies to investigate the incident and develop answers to limit the root causes and prevent similar events.
During vessel operations, we also offer services aimed at minimizing business interruption, mitigating adverse environmental impacts and reducing the vessel owner's carbon footprint. Audits and manual preparation help clients achieve regulatory compliance.
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Safety Management Systems
Invaluable Risk Management: SMS Audits
It is crucial to have a Safety Management System (SMS) in place to ensure the well-being of your employees, protect your assets, and maintain a secure environment for operations. Our SMS solution is designed to help you achieve these objectives while maintaining compliance with local and federal standards.
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Helping You Invest and Operate Efficiently and Effectively within Brazil's Compliance Environment
Our analysis of the regulatory framework and scope of requirements are of high value to companies considering investment, and equally those with current investments, in Brazil.
With over 40 years of experience in Brazil, ABS Group has released a detailed and comprehensive report for companies intending to operate in the country's exploration and production sector. This report focuses on requirements for designing and building production facilities and local content but is relevant to all asset-intensive opportunities in the region, including onshore industrial manufacturing and equipment certification.
Project Management and Marine Assessments
We assist owners with compliance matters in newbuild projects by providing guidance during the concept and design development phase, engineering services and plan review as well as technical services. Our experienced appraisers are accredited members of the American Society of Appraisers and are supported by a team of marine engineers, naval architects, professional marine surveyors and industry technical specialists.
For vessels being designed, our project managers use advanced technology, analysis and modeling to perform an independent review. Taking into account both construction and operational factors, we identify areas for improvement, define technical specifications, draft project requirements and provide guidance on preliminary budget estimates. Our engineers and project managers also advise clients throughout the shipbuilding process and oversee construction to help keep the project on schedule and within budget and technical specifications. We also verify design specifications, drawings and calculations against project requirements and regulatory standards.
Project Management
Our team provides a ship owner with tailored project management services that may promote efficiencies and help minimize the risk of unexpected delays, technical inaccuracies and cost overruns. These services can be made available for newbuild projects, for major modifications and repairs or to evaluate potential projects as to their feasibility.
- Owner's Representation
- Project management services
- Guarantee period support
- Hull and machinery engineering review
- Supervision of installation, commissioning and repair