Germanischer Lloyd's Maritime and Corporate Services has received the ISO 9001:2008 certification. It was awarded by the German certification body DQS, a registrar in independent third party management system certification. GL was awarded the certification after a thorough assessment of GL's quality management system.
The ISO 9001:2008 certification process started in November 2008. Germanischer Lloyd developed and implemented a Quality Assurance System that conforms to the strict requirements of the ISO 9001:2008 standards.
"By implementing the ISO standard Germanischer Lloyd has committed to a high benchmark which will be binding for us in future", said Dr Hermann J Klein, Member of the Executive Board Germanischer Lloyd, at the handover of the certificate.
The quality management has been reviewed according to criteria such as customer orientation, accountability, leadership, process-orientation as well as continuous improvement, to name a few.
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