Lloyd's Register (LR) and the UK P&I Club have released a Life-Saving Appliances pocket checklist app to help ensure that ship personnel are trained in how to inspect, maintain and operate life-saving equipment.

A joint venture company has been formed by ABS and Lloyds Register (LR) to launch their latest software tools for the IACS Common Structural Rules (CSR), which entered into force on 1 July 2015.

China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) has signed a Joint Industry Project with Lloyd’s Register Asia to design a new ‘cyber ship’.

Lloyd’s Register (LR) and the UK P&I Club have launched three new checklist apps dealing with fire safety, marine pollution, and port state controls.

The Lloyd’s Register Foundation has reported that it has made a conditional grant offer of £10 million over five years to support research by the Alan Turing Institute on engineering applications of big data.

Lloyd’s Register today announced that it has launched an ISM & ISPS checklist app and updated its ILO MLC app.

Lloyd’s Register Marine (LR) has created a new app for smartphones and tablets, allowing users to access ship and fleet data from anywhere in the world.

UK company SRO Solutions reports that it has achieved software conformity for the Maximo 7.5 system from Lloyd’s Register.

A new state-of-the-art marine technology and research centre of excellence at the University of Southampton, which incorporates the Lloyd’s Register Group Technology Centre, has reached the milestone of “topping out” as development continues on the facility.

Lloyd’s Register has established a Group Technology Centre (GTC) in Singapore to perform R&D on technologies for the energy and maritime sectors, and has also reached an agreement with the country's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) to collaborate on its projects.