CLASS ROUNDTABLEOver the past years, there has been a big evolution of class rules into the new “Goal Based Standards. The GBS are a way to establish a close link between class rules with goals and functional requirements established by the IMO.”RINARoberto Cazzuloing LNG fuel the right solution. In six years I would expect The lines of demarcation between Class and the LNG to be available as a marine fuel in at least half a dozen regulatory community are becoming blurred. Classi? cation Societies now routinely perform US ports, because by then the ships will have been delivered many tasks heretofore the exclusive domain of that require it. Once that happens, I would expect orders for the ? ag state and the Coast Guard. As this prac-more LNG-fuelled vessels to increase rapidly.tice widens, how do you maintain your objectiv- ity and more importantly, who is checking now Tim Protheroe, Lloyd’s Register North America: We see to make sure the job is being done correctly? an increasingly important future for LNG as a marine fuel and Tim Protheroe, Lloyd’s Register North America: LR particularly in North America. Right now LNG is being taken prides itself on 254 years of Independent Third Party status and up mainly by smaller ferries, by short-haul Jones Act contain-ership operators, and OSVs. Lakes operators are likely to be is ISO Certi