IMO Polar Code

HOW DNV HELPS YOU

DNV supports ship owners to comply with the Polar Code and to obtain a Polar Ship Certificate. Our services include both statutory certification on behalf of the flag administration, and advisory services to help you prepare for certification. The advisory and certification services will always be conducted independently from each other according to the implementing acts. 

We also help you through our traditional ship classification services, offering a suite of notations to meet your cold-climate operating needs:

• Ice strengthening – via the PC polar ice classes, from PC(1) to PC(7), and the Baltic ice classes, ICE(1A*) to ICE(1C)
• Icebreaker notation – for ships specially designed to break ice
• Winterization – the protection of ship systems from freezing and icing via our Winterized notations

We will help you to select an appropriate ice class, design temperature, polar service temperature, and winterization notation to best suit your planned polar operations. A summary of our services is provided below.

• Review the owner’s operational assessment

• Assists owners in conducting the operational assessment, define the ship’s polar operations capabilities, and set a Polar Service Temperature

• Review/approve the ice class equivalency (for non-IACS polar ice class ship seeking Category A or B designation)

• Assist owners in conducting a structural equivalency analysis of an existing ship to determine its equivalent polar ship category
  
  

• Review/approve the ship system and equipment documentation

• Assist owners in assessing the ship’s systems and equipment against the requirements of the Polar Code and identify what documentation will be needed
  
  

Statutory certification services from DNV 

• Review/approve stability calculations

• Calculate the icing load and stability calculations for relevant loading conditions
  
  

• Review the PWOM

Optional advisory support

• Assist owner in preparing the PWOM, customized to the needs of each ship
  
  

Statutory certification services from DNV

• Conduct the statutory survey, Usually harmonized with the renewal or intermediate survey of the vessel’s other SOLAS certificates
  
  

Statutory certification services from DNV

• Issue the PSC on behalf of the vessel’s flag administration
  
  

Statutory certification services from DNV

• Reissue the appendix to the IOPP certificate to indicate compliance with the environmental requirements of the Polar Code. Other MARPOL certificates are unaffected.