ABSTRACT
As we approach the year 2000, ship design will focus on a number of specific areas as detailed below:
(a) Market conditions and how best to respond to the needs of the shipper will be major factors in ship design which will focus on raising standards for the merchant shipper in the form of overall faster transits and the continuing expansion of multi-modalism. The interface between the ship and berthing operations will be much improved thereby speeding up ship turn-round time. This involves quicker and more efficient transhipment techniques both for containerized traffic and the bulk carrier market. A recent example of the lengthened container ship technology demonstrating this point is found in Fig. 3.4 on p. 45.
