R&D works offered for tender and necessary to keep up-to-date level of RS normative documents and services:

1. Improvement of the regulatory and methodological framework of RS rules in terms of requirements for hull structures of metal floating docks
2. Updating the allowable operational conditions for river-sea and costal navigation vessels
3. Development of guidelines on analysis of thermal stresses in ship cryogenic pipelines and pipelines exposed to high temperature
4. Lean management. Recommendations on building an integrated system based on principles of quality management and lean manufacturing at firms of the maritime transport industry
5. Development of recommendations on documenting a quality management system based on the principles of ISO 9001 in organizations under RS technical supervision
6. A procedure and an algorithm for determining a scenario of ship motion in the сlose towing mode taking into account designs of aft ends of main types of NSR icebreakers
7. Development of RS rules for approval of new tank-vehicles in accordance with the requirements of the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR) as well as the requirements for tank-vehicles in service
8. Development of requirements for castings of martensitic class stainless steels for marine propellers with improved corrosion resistance.
9. Weldability testing during delivery of rolled plates, development of test procedures, and justification of requirements for their results
10. Setting of accelerated testing methods for ultraviolet ageing of polymeric materials with service life prediction
11. Development of a method for evaluating the ship's ice going capacity and steering when moving in a channel and a field of grated ice
12. Updating and development of reference data on the wind and wave regime of the Black Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk
13. Development of requirements for survivability of offshore pipelines and facilities
14. Legal regulation of the Russian Federation in relation to fixed and floating offshore hydrocarbon production facilities located on the shelf of the RF and in the special economic zone

Promising areas of scientific research based on global shipbuilding trends:

1. Establishing of an updated ice classification system
2. Development of an information and analytical service for adaptive ship routing (Research of existing algorithms and technologies in the field of ship weather routing and development of a routing service concept)
3. Analysis of experience in application of artificial intelligence and automation systems in ACS, their application prospects in the RF. Recommendations for application and approval of systems
4. Analysis of global trends in application of liquid (molten salt) nuclear plants in civil shipbuilding, development of requirements for their approval, taking into account researches of ACS related to nuclear plant safety, including gas-cooled reactors.
5. Development of a methodology for evaluating applicability and effectiveness of energy-saving technologies, taking into account the peculiarities of a ship
6. Development of electronic ship logbooks and maintenance programs for shipboard equipment
7. Evaluation of experience in application of remote inspection systems by supervisory authorities, ACS, Maritime Administrations. Prospects and challenges, minimization of risks, clarification of methods and guidelines, assessment of feasibility and possibility of expanding to conventional surveys (taking into account statistics of rejections, PSC detentions, MA recommendations)