The company that you are working for, as part of the technical team, are undertaking a new building program of ten 2,200teu “Feeder” container ships, with a shipyard in China. The following aspects of the design have come in over budget and you have been chosen to complete a detailed analysis for the Finance Director, giving a technical explanation and justifying the benefits of their inclusion in the final design. Actual Financial data is not required; however you will be marked on your ability to analyse the benefit as to WHY each feature should be included in the final design.
The design features under consideration are:
- A podded drive feature (due to the large number of ports that will be visited in a short time scale).
- Improved damage stability characteristics due to using the “probabilistic” methods of calculation
- X Bow arrangement
- Ice class 1A
Complete a full report explaining each of the bullet points shown above – 2000 words.
Referencing is very important as is the need to follow academic best practice relating to word counts and similarity score within the turn-it-in software.
The reports will be evaluated against the following learning outcomes:
- Critically evaluate the impact of existing and new technology on the safe and efficient operation of a marine vessel/structure over its life cycle in the context of marine operational management.
- Make effective judgement about how increasing efficiency will impact upon the environmental footprint of the maritime industry
- Extend students own technological capability by evaluating how Naval Architecture, Vessel Construction and Marine Engineering systems come together in the efficient design of a vessel/structure