Greek classification society opens office at Zhousan in China

[InTime News]

Greece-based Phoenix Register of Shipping (PHRS) opened past week different bureau successful China, astatine the Putuo district, Zhoushan, East China’s Zhejiang province, marking the company’s further enlargement into China’s maritime work market.

The constitution of PHRS’s bureau successful Zhoushan was driven not lone by the port’s advantages but besides by Putuo’s strong maritime work ecosystem, including China’s largest vessel repair basal and a starring bonded bunker substance business.

The caller bureau will straight service shipowners and shipbuilding enterprises successful the Yangtze River Delta region. PHRS has besides reached preliminary practice intentions with the China-Europe (Greece) Maritime Service Center, which is being developed astatine Xiazhimen transmission successful Putuo.

PHRS has astir 1,000 registered vessels worldwide, totaling astir 13 cardinal metric tons, with China expected to go the company’s astir important maturation marketplace implicit the adjacent 5 years.