Folks, I had a communication from our marketing guy explaining that there have been inquiries about our ability to supply steel to European shipbuilding certifications. We are already have our certificate for quality assurance from the American Bureau of Shipping and are approved for several grades of steel. The communication we received stated that we would need the following shipbuilding certifications for exports: DNV and GL. Now, I understand where the ABS certification might not be acceptable in Europe (well, not really) but why am I being told we need GL certification for Germany and DNV for Norway Finland and Spain? What happened to international standardization? Any thoughts? Should I fight multiple certification? Should I just bite the bullet? I am about to get certificated to death. I have people telling me we need to go NQA-1, CE, DNV Shipbuilding, GL Shipbuilding, LofL Shipbuilding. I am a one person dept. Help, I'm drowning in alphabet certifications!

