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independent, objective, experienced and uncompromising in our commitment to finding safe and efficient solutions.

About Lloyd's Register Group

The Lloyd's Register Group is an organisation that works to enhance safety and to approve assets and systems at sea, on land and in the air. We check that assets and systems work so that people and communities around the world can get on with everyday life. We are driven by a strong sense that what we are doing matters.

To make this happen, we set, uphold and apply high technical standards of design, manufacture, construction, maintenance, operation and performance across many sectors to the benefit of many businesses. Our expertise covers shipping, other areas of transportation particularly rail, upstream and downstream, asset-based industries and management systems.

We have earned the reputation of being the leading provider of cost effective, high quality engineering consulting and technical support services. We have offices in 232 cities and towns covering over 186 countries and employ more than 7000 Lloyd's register specialists worldwide. In asset management our core competency is to provide advanced engineering, risk management, certification and validation services. We provide services throughout the complete lifecycle of an asset, from concept and evaluation and design, through in-service operation and maintenance, to plant-life extension and decommissioning.
 

The Lloyd’s Register Group structure

We operate worldwide through a network of bodies which deliver our products and services to our clients efficiently and effectively.

Lloyd's Register EMEA
Based in London, UK, provides a full range of services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Lloyd's Register Asia
Based in Hong Kong, SAR of PR China, provides a full range of services in Asia.

Lloyd's Register North America, Inc.
Based in Houston, USA, provides a full range of services in the USA and Canada.

Lloyd's Register Central and South America Ltd
Providing a full range of services in Central and South American countries.

Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance Ltd (LRQA)
Provides audit and certification of quality, environmental, and health and safety management systems.

Lloyd's Register Rail Limited
Supplying safety assurance services to the rail industry. Specialises in rolling stock, signalling and telecommunications engineering.

Lloyd's Register Nederland BV
Based in the Netherlands. Carries out statutory and non-statutory inspection, and certifies pressure equipment and plants.

Lloyd's Register - Fairplay Limited
The world's largest independent supplier of maritime information services, Lloyd's Register - Fairplay publishes the annual Register of Ships. (web site: www.lrfairplay.com)
 

Pan sector nature of our group services

Lloyd’s Register is recognised as a leading and major supplier of services to all the sectors that we serve and uses systematic procedures and practices for identifying, analysing, evaluating, mitigating and monitoring risk.

We operate as five businesses - Marine, Oil & Gas, Asset Management, Transportation (including Rail) and Management Systems - all of which have client facing responsibilities. Our Asset Management and Management Systems businesses also have service responsibility across the Group.
 

Marine
Our Marine business principally involves classification of ships, which sets standards of quality and reliability during their design, build and operation.

The Lloyd’s Register Group also undertakes statutory inspections connected with international shipping conventions and codes. With additional services, we help ship owners and operators understand risks and help improve asset management and business performance.

View details on our marine services
 

Energy Upstream & Downstream
The Energy Upstream & Downstream business serves the upstream and downstream oil and gas industry onshore and offshore. Services provided to help clients manage their assets include:

  • compliance services, including verification, certification, classification, and inspection,

  • integrity management services ( including Risk Based Inspection),

  • consultancy services, including risk management, safety case development, engineering analysis and design, project finance, and environmental engineering.

View details on our upstream and downstream services
 

Energy Power & Manufacturing
Our Energy business has the expertise and infrastructure to successfully address the needs of all industries utilising high value, safety and performance critical assets, particularly

  • power

  • nuclear power

  • chemicals

  • ports and logistics

  • general engineering & manufacturing

  • utilities

  • mining.

Our focus is on through-life asset management services and our clients include:

  • regulators

  • operators and owners

  • major engineering contractors (EPCs)

  • manufacturers & fabricators

  • financial institutions.

View details on our power and manufacturing services
 

Transportation
Our Transportation business has two parts. The Rail business specialises in rail systems integration, risk management and safety assurance. It provides services in all key rail disciplines, including rolling stock, signalling, telecommunications, civil engineering, power systems and operations. The other part of our transportation group provides services in economic and strategic disciplines - these are provided by BSL Management Consultants, the transportation management consultants of the Lloyd’s Register Group.

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Management Systems
Management Systems services are supplied by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance Ltd (LRQA) - a world leading provider of business assurance. LRQA helps clients use Management Systems to reduce their risks and improve their business performance as well as providing certification of compliance with international management system standards. LRQA services span a complete range of businesses from manufacturing - including food - and all transport sectors, to most service sectors - including telecommunications, design services, IT, finance and distribution.

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Classification
We take great pride in upholding high technical standards of design, construction and maintenance across many industries. In the marine and oil and gas sectors, our Rules set standards for the design, construction and operation of ships and offshore assets.

We update our Rules on a regular basis to reflect changes in technology and input from the Marine and Oil & Gas sectors. And we help to develop and review international standards and legislation around the world.

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Consultancy
With our wide ranging experience across a number of business and industry sectors, we are ideally placed to offer you advisory services to help you manage your assets or business better.

Whatever your project, we can offer practical solutions designed to improve performance and reduce business risk.

View details on our consultancy services

For further details on our Group entities and the activities of the Group, please visit our website www.lr.org

Independent

We can provide you with third party technical assurance to give your stakeholders confidence that an asset can be operated safely and effectively. We are a non profit distributing organisation and have charitable status in many of the countries in which we operate. We provide full lifecycle services in the form of establishing, upholding and applying independent, objective and uncompromising technical assurance. We have delivered independent and impartial technical services for more than 240 years.