QACE is pleased to announce that, Christian Breinholt has been appointed as the new QACE Chairman. QACE and the QACE Members look forward to Christian’s leadership and direction, thank him for taking on the role and wish him all the best for the new challenges ahead.

After retiring from as Head of Maritime Safety Division of the German Administration, Klaus dedicated his new working life to ensuring the establishment and development of QACE, chairing the entity from its foundation in 2010. In a testament to Klaus’s achievements the EU Commission, at the same time as acknowledging QACE meeting the governing Regulation, thanked Klaus for his “cooperation and personal efforts to develop QACE to its current form during the 8 years of his service as Chairman of the board”.

QACE, the Board, Secretariat and Members thank Klaus for his commitment and leadership over the years and wish him all the best in his retirement.

Dean Tseretopoulos steps down as a QACE Director having completed his final term of office. Dean has been a QACE Director since its beginning in 2010. His shipbuilding expertise and practical experience, together with his guidance on all matters technical and financial will be sorely missed, a major factor in QACE’s success. His presence will be sorely missed. The QACE Board, Secretariat and the QACE Members wish Dean all the best for the future.

QACE presented KR with their Certificate of Compliance, during the Individual Recommendations meeting in Busan, on 7 September 2018.

2018 has already been an eventful year. Here is a summary of the key activities so far:

The Assessment Programme proceeds well with, so far 37 of the planned 62  audits planned for 2018.

January 

• Appointment of QACE Technical Expert Tim Ho
• The Annual Assessor’s Meeting is held at the QACE office in London to plan the 2018 QACE Assessment Programme.
• London office Board Meeting and welcome to the new President, Bureau Veritas’s Patrick Le Dily for his first full meeting.
• QACE Technical Expert participated in the annual IACS Auditor Refresher Training Course, this time in Vladivostok.

February 

• QACE completes a successful ISO 9001:2015 audit 

March

• The appointment of New QACE Director Dr Nikos Mikelis

April

•  An Individual Recommendations visit was made to the Polish Register of Shipping.
•  QACE publishes the 2017 Annual Report and  2018 Intersted Parties Survey online.

May

• QACE provide the International Maritime Organisation member State and adviser with the 2017 Annual Report and 2018 Collective Recommendations.
• QACE holds the mid-year Board Meeting, again at the London office.

QACE publishes it’s 2017 Annual Report. The report includes sections on the QACE Work Plan, assessment activity, assessment results and, in Annex C, the Collective Recommendations for 2018.

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Türk Loydu (TL) as a company applying for EU recognition are subject to the same QACE assessment and certification process as the already Recognised Organisations.

TL made a courtesy call to the QACE office to discuss progress.

Aydin Gürbüz (Quality Management Division Manager), Cem Melikoğlu (TL Chairman of the Board of Directors) and Des Gutteridge (QACE Secretary General)

During a ceremony in Paris to honor Klaus Grensemann, Francis Vallat stated that “apart from his long career and service to the maritime industry, it is as the current and respected Chairman of QACE that the French National Order of Merit is awarded today.” Mr Vallat went on to say that it is because of Mr Grensemann’s highly effective Chairmanship that “QACE has delivered so effectively its mission to monitor worldwide in representative offices, and aboard ships, the quality of classification societies work.”

QACE is delighted to announce that Tim Ho, one of QACE’s vastly experienced Assessors, has been appointed Technical Expert. The role includes the development and delivery of technical training, development of QACE audit requirements as well as continuing with assessment visits in Asia.