Founded 1862
American Bureau of Shipping (ABS)
Spring, United States
ABS is a classification society that develops and applies rules for hull, structural, and equipment condition through vessel and offshore-unit surveys, including newbuild and in-service hull inspections. It classes commercial vessels and offshore facilities and is one of the largest class societies by classed fleet.
- Headquarters
- Spring, United States
- Founded
- 1862
- Website
- ww2.eagle.org
Notable facts
- Originated as the American Shipmasters' Association, founded in New York in 1862, renamed American Bureau of Shipping in 1898
- World headquarters at 1701 City Plaza Drive, Spring, Texas
- Reported to be the second-largest class society with a classed fleet of over 12,000 commercial vessels and offshore facilities as of 2020
Service categories
Sources. This profile is compiled from public reference data, WebSearch-verified againstsource 1 · source 2. Data as of 2026-07-11. See methodology.
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