信德海事网-专业海事信息咨询服务平台 登录 | 注册 [ 设为首页 ] [ 加入收藏 ] 中文版 ENGLISH WeChat Mobile --> --> ENGLISH   >   PEOPLE --> Shaping Class for the future 2025-12-03 21:25 By： xinde marine news 分享： --> --> --> 评论 --> --> This has been a significant year for ClassNK and for Hayato Suga, who stepped up to the role of President & CEO in March.   Drawing on 40 years of ClassNK experience, the new CEO suggests shipping needs additional support from classification societies at a time when “boundaries between industries are becoming increasingly blurred due to environmental challenges and digital transformation”.   “It is our responsibility to work with customers to provide certification and related services in a timely manner that meet diverse and fast-evolving needs,” he says.   The responsibility applies to a class society whose register includes over 9,500 ships in 2025, served by 130 exclusive surveyor offices in 58 countries. Suga says he aims to make ClassNK more internationally competitive, expand its service portfolio and energize initiative-taking across the organization. A new Tech Expertise Centre in Piraeus, tasked with providing technical support beyond survey-related matters, offers a strong example.   “We are also focusing on expanding services relating to decarbonization, digitalization, and fuel certification in response to higher expectations,” says Suga. “The continuous emergence of new technologies demands that classification societies engage in thinking about and shaping what is coming next,” says Suga.   In one 2025 response, ClassNK added ClassNK Fleet Cost Simulation to its alternative fuel services to evaluate the regulatory costs of measures such as the FuelEU Maritime and the EU ETS.   Low emission life cycle Looking at the bigger emissions picture, this year ClassNK also became Asia’s first provider of Sustainable Aviation Fuel certification, in support of International Civil Aviation Organization 2027 reporti