To browse Academia. First of all, I would like to thank Mikael Simelius, who inspired my to prepare the second edition of this work. I am also indebted to Paul Glandt, who supervised the project and to the whole team of proofreaders who read the text and gave their valuable comments. I would also like to express my gratitude to companies and individuals who provided me with pictures, illustrations and information used in this book. The purpose of this paper is to give an overall information about the shipping industry, its laws and regulations and the organizations that govern them, the classification of the ships in the maritime industry as well as the basic and common terms used to refer to the parts of the vessels, its designs and its technical features, and last but not least the problems the ships need to face when dealing with stability.
The Union of Mediterranean Trading Shipowners of Greece with the technical assistance of ICEPRONAV of Romania have developed a generic ship type that can be constructed in such ways to serve the needs of a wide spectrum of transportation requirements, while ensuring significant economies for the builder in series.
The need for this exercise has arisen in the context of ESYAN where clustering of various ship types around the six thousand tons mark had to be taken advantage of in a way to generate scale economies for both, the owners and the builders. While no serious technical innovation is involved, this type of application is novel and offers measurable savings in identifiable areas of the construction.
If the matter of the replacement of the Greek Short Sea Fleet is seen as part of the overall strategy of Greece in the post cabotage era of the EU, a large number of such vessels are expected to be built. This paper describes the rationale behind this project and discusses the opportunities and challenges to promote it. CIS D This is a rapid introductory survey of the range and chronology of post ships, boats and submarines concentrating on the larger types of ship and identifies significant vessel types.
Heritage and the Sea. Springer Nature, Nueva York, pp. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. Entry in The Homer Encyclopedia Volume 1, ed. Finkelberg Wiley-Blackwell The life cycle of a ship represents an issue which the ship owner must take into consideration because he must know a series of aspects connected to the exploitation period until the moment of the current and capital repairs, the degree of use of the ship and separately for each installation, the moment of its taking out from service and especially how it can be extended its duration of exploitation.
