One of the best-known names in the business of ship classification is to stand down at the end of the year. ABS chairman and CEO Christopher Wiernicki after leading the American classification society for the past 12 years, having taken over from Robert Somerville in 2013. Prior to joining ABS in 1993, Wiernicki was president and CEO of Designers and Planners, a naval architecture firm. Current ABS president and chief operating officer John McDonald is expected to take over in the new year. Latest data from Clarksons Research shows ABS is the world’s third largest classification society, and the biggest when it comes to the tanker sector. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); }); TagsUnited States