Since Vard Design was established as Vard’s own in-house ship design studio back in 2000 more than 120 VARD designed vessels have been delivered. Today the company offers an extensive range including both standardized vessels and highly advanced vessels with significant customer specific adaptations.
Combined with the introduction of the new company name, VARD, the company is changing the naming system for its ship designs.
The new naming system is very simple and built up from three components:
VARD + Design Series + Design Number
The company has organized its ship designs into five numerical series named 1, 2, 3, 8 and 9. The numerical series will replace the current acronym naming (PSV, AH, OSCV) of VARD ship designs.
The Vard 1-Series will replace the current PSV category.
The Vard 2-Series will replace the current AH category.
The Vard 3-Series will replace the current OSCV category.
The Vard 8-Series is new and will include fishing vessels.
The Vard 9-Series will include other specialized vessels.
To make the new naming system easy to navigate Vard is keeping the existing and established ship design numbers. For example:
The current ship design PSV 09 will change name to VARD 1 09
The current ship design AH 05 will change name to VARD 2 05
The current ship design OSCV 02 will change name to VARD 3 02
Vard decided to make this change for several reasons. Firstly, the range is growing and the company needed a more systematic naming architecture. Secondly, the current naming system was based on generic category names. Vard wanted a naming system unique to VARD.
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Press Release, June 5, 2013