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Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore is a leading classification society and assurance partner, trusted with helping maritime stakeholders keep vessels safe, compliant and sustainable. Our classification services are tailored towards a rapidly evolving industry. Our approach to ship classification includes an evolving range of dedicated notations that keep pace with technology and the latest requirements for classification.   

Bureau Veritas prides itself on being: 

By your side: as a partner in Classification, with a global network of surveyors ready to provide your organisation with the support it needs anytime and anywhere. 

Pioneers in safety and performance: our continuous and collaborative R&D approach, regulatory knowledge and client proximity enable us to offer valuable insights to help the industry move forward. 

Flexible without compromise: At Bureau Veritas, safety is an absolute requirement. From helping you achieve compliance with existing regulations or developing new technologies, we will never compromise on safety. 

Whether it’s a new build, or in service vessel seeking class transfer, our extensive global network of marine surveyors is ideally positioned to support your ship classification needs.

Bureau Veritas Marine and Offshore Pacific has extensive experience operating in strategic partnership with a sovereign State to design, develop and implement end-to-end solutions for Sovereign Naval Class Rules, and Sovereign Naval Seaworthiness Regulations. Through integrated leadership, partnership, and technical expertise, Bureau Veritas provides a capability to support the sovereign State in building and maintaining its own world leading certification, regulation, and seaworthiness framework.   

Bureau Veritas’ approach to the design, development and implementation of Sovereign Naval Class Rules and Seaworthiness Regulations is guided by two key sets of principles: 

Design Principles - Our approach ensures that the rules and frameworks implemented by government and defence are: 

          •  As International as possible and as National as necessary;  
             and 
          •  As Civilian as possible and as Military as necessary. 

Outcome Principles - Our rule sets ensure that maritime assets are: 

           •  Safe to Operate – attaining and maintaining class, against sovereign naval class rules, provides the assurance that naval and government vessels are safe to operate, 
              and
          •  Operated Safely – a structured authorisation of operations that provides the assurance that the naval vessel is operated safely.

In 2025, Bureau Veritas was engaged by the Australian Naval Seaworthiness Authority (ANSA) under a partnership with the Defence Seaworthiness Project to design, develop and implement seaworthiness regulations for the Australian Defence Force.  

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With extensive experience located in Australia, across the Pacific region, and a centre of excellence in Kuala Lumpur, Bureau Veritas is ideally positioned as a partner to the offshore oil and gas sector. Our digitised asset management solutions help extend the life of assets, infrastructure, and optimising value for money across the life of your investment. Specialising in Classification, Certification, Validation and verification, Bureau Veritas is here to support you to identify and reduce risks and improve performance across the offshore energy sector. 

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In addition to our support to the offshore oil and gas sector, Bureau Veritas Marine and Offshore Pacific are available to provide dedicated technical advisory solutions to industry and government. Our deep expertise offers the assurance needed to assist government and industry proponents in decision making, enhancing safety, delivering efficiency, and sustainability.  

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Our experts combine years of maritime and regulatory experience with sensitivity to the needs of each individual ship to provide adapted support to our clients. As an independent assurance partner, Bureau Veritas is ideally positioned to support Government organisations, and the commercial sector, in providing the assurance necessary for safe, secure, and environmentally friendly operations. Our team of experts is here to support the sector in keeping pace with a constantly changing regulatory landscape, decarbonization, and getting the most out of your assets in the field.  

Bureau Veritas Marine and Offshore Pacific is ideally placed to support Australia’s maritime sector and the wider Pacific region in design, build, classification, certification and assurance of emerging, novel and autonomous maritime technologies. Our deep, global expertise, collaborative approach, and flexibility without compromise ensures that our solutions are fit for purpose and tailored to meet clients' operational and safety needs.  

In Australia, Domestic Commercial Vessels with novel vessel technologies, electrification, automation, alternate fuels or novel technologies, Bureau Veritas offers a variety of options for the approval in principle, new construction, survey, and certification. 

Our projects include:  

• Ships – Autonomous vessels, novel technologies, emerging tech. Examples include ammonia carriers, IX Blue and DriX, USV’s, Vessev’s hydro-foiling electric catamaran,  
• Marine Renewable Energy - Wave generators, floating solar farms, floating nuclear power plants, and ocean energy generators 
• Equipment and Technologies - Reduction systems, treatment systems, fuel gas supply systems, cargo containment , LNG fueled equipment, Hydrogen power systems 
• Digitalisation - Cyber-resilience, and fully autonomous ship frameworks (APExS-auto, Greenroom’s automation system 

Risk-Based Qualification of New Technology  - Bureau Veritas also offers guidelines for Technology Qualification Assessment (NI525) using a risk-based approach. The qualification process is designed to leverage a range of qualification processes to identify failure modes for the technology and ensure the associated risks are reduced to an acceptable level. It proves that a technology can reach an acceptable level of confidence. 

Approvals in Principle - At Bureau Veritas, we pride ourselves on our collaborative approach, being flexible to the needs of industry without compromise on safety and navigating the complexities of today’s regulatory landscape. Bureau Veritas offers a range of options when it comes to emerging technology, automation, remote operation, and novel vessels. With the ability of access deep expertise globally, our  Approvals in Principle (AiPs) processes are designed to support niche sectors of industry launching, developing, and introducing into service new technologies.  

Once we’ve qualified or approved the technology, Bureau Veritas also provides Classification and Survey of the vessel and its technology, as well as technical and regulatory advisory services to assist ship builders, owners, and operators with navigating the complexities of national rules and regulations.  With deep knowledge and understanding of Australia’s regulatory environment, our staff can assist in navigating the complexities of Australia National law Act, Navigation Act, and associated Marine Orders.  

Bureau Veritas’ Marine and Offshore Pacific has direct linkages into our global Future Shipping Team who specialise in advancing sustainability, building trust in emerging technology, and supporting clients who want to challenge the status quo and make future-proof choices on sustainability, technology and innovation. 

When we are engaged to support your project, we bring in the expertise of the BV team available globally. Our ultimate goal is to get your technology, on the water, operating safely, sooner.  

As a trusted business to business to society partner, Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore Pacific offers a wide comprehensive range of technical advisory services to assist our clients with managing risk, decision making, enhancing safety, efficiency and sustainability. We specialise in the provision of 3rd party, independent, deep subject matter knowledge and expertise to help you reduce risk, make decisions, or find solutions.  

These services include: 

• Sustainable Solutions | Marine & Offshore  
• Engineering solutions 
• Risk mitigation solutions 
• Marine assurance solutions 
• Regulatory solutions 
• Asset management 
• Life extension studies 

Bureau veritas’s advisory services are tailored to suit the needs of our clients.