The ship owners’ stance on third party ship management: an empirical study

The last four decades have seen the rise of third-party ship management and its evolution into an industry in its own right. Specifically, the present study reviews independent ship management with a view to identifying those contemporary parameters, relating to several environmental forces that can be considered to be conducive to the employment of professional ship managers. The focus of the investigation is on the comparison of two traditional maritime centres, Greece and the UK, which have been chosen after a thorough selection process and found to serve in the best possible way our research objectives. An analytical examination of the ship management sector in Greece and the UK is undertaken looking into the ship owners’ viewpoint on a number of key issues. The analysed data yielded some very interesting results.     

Third party ship management: the case of separation of ownership and management in the shipping context

The last four decades have seen the rise of third party ship management and its evolution into an industry in its own right. This signified a new reality in ship management practice, whereby the traditional custom of doing business with the ship owner being also the ship manager was abandoned and a revolutionary model that assigned the role of the owner and the role of the manager to two different entities was proposed. In essence, then, third party ship management comes very close, in principle and in practice, to the separation of ownership and management as experienced in many industrial fields, after the emergence, in the last half of the 19th century, of the salaried manager. The purpose of this paper is to examine the forces at work in the process of such separation with a view to provide an insight into the relevant, contemporary parameters that can be considered instrumental in the strategic decision to employ third party ship management     

A process-centric ship design management framework

As the concept of concurrent engineering has emerged along with support for optimization techniques, lots of endeavors have been made to apply optimization techniques to real design problems for holistic decision-making. Even if the range of design problems to which optimization is applicable has been extended, most ship designs use an iterative and manual approach due to the difficulties of seamless integration of all related design activities. This paper proposes a process-centric management framework for the preliminary ship design process depending on these approaches. Requirements for the framework are generated based on the features of the ship design process first. The proposed framework consists of both process scheduling and process management parts. Each of these modules is divided into submodules, and the modules and their interactions are elaborated to reflect actual design practice. The designed framework is embodied within a workflow system and its usefulness examined through a pilot project.     

浅析造船合同下的船舶设计问题

船舶作为一种特殊的商品,交易过程复杂,技术规范要求高,合同生效开始,船厂开始自己或委托设计公司根据船舶技术规格书设计船舶,送交船级社及有关政府当局和船东审查。建造合同是设计的依据,船厂在履行合同的过程中要明确设计的责任和权利,从源头上把设计风险降到最低。文章从管理和实际应用角度,阐述了造船合同下船舶设计中应该注意的要点,在此基础上提出提高船舶设计管理水平的建议及对策。     

浅谈船舶舾装件管理

船舶建造中因舾装件数量大、品种多,故管理工作难度较大。文中对船舶舾装件包含的内容、特点以及托盘管理的概念作了阐述,并结合舾装件的特殊性,从计划、集配和配送三方面对船舶舾装件进行托盘管理作详细介绍,并最终通过托盘管理,有利于解决库存量大,物资供应不及时等问题,同时可以降低造船成本,缩短造船周期。     

Marketing the professional ship management service

This article aims to apply the relationship marketing concept in a professional ship management context. The dramatic growth in the ship management industry means that companies are increasingly seeking ways of ensuring competitiveness. Efforts have mainly concentrated on the improvement of the quality of the service, market entry strategies, establishment in strategic locations, and promotion. Nevertheless, it is argued that in the professional service context of ship management, the aspect of building and maintaining client relationships is of utmost importance. The building of client relationships will require investments of an economic and social nature, training of personnel and the consideration of marketing as a strategic issue. Ship management companies that build long-term client relationships will ensure client retention, reduce transaction costs and achieve differentiation and competitiveness.     

An empirical assessment of relational competitive advantage in professional ship management

Intense competition in many sectors across the maritime industry and in professional ship management in particular, means that the quest for achieving competitiveness will continue and intensify. A review of the current strategies across many sectors of the industry indicates the importance of forging stable partnerships for the achievement of competitiveness. Considering that the capability to form a relationship is an intangible resource (as depicted in resource-advantage theory), an empirical assessment in the context of ship management was undertaken. The assessment aimed to identify the type of relationships present in ship management, and succeeded in classifying those relationships into four distinct groups. The central thesis of the paper is that maritime organizations in general, and ship management companies in particular, may utilize their intangible relational resources in order to achieve competitive advantage. Based on the classification of ship management relationships, implications for managers are discussed.     

An empirical assessment of relational competitive advantage in professional ship management

Intense competition in many sectors across the maritime industry and in professional ship management in particular, means that the quest for achieving competitiveness will continue and intensify. A review of the current strategies across many sectors of the industry indicates the importance of forging stable partnerships for the achievement of competitiveness. Considering that the capability to form a relationship is an intangible resource (as depicted in resource-advantage theory), an empirical assessment in the context of ship management was undertaken. The assessment aimed to identify the type of relationships present in ship management, and succeeded in classifying those relationships into four distinct groups. The central thesis of the paper is that maritime organizations in general, and ship management companies in particular, may utilize their intangible relational resources in order to achieve competitive advantage. Based on the classification of ship management relationships, implications for managers are discussed.     

船舶设计中船东意见的管理和跟踪控制方法研究

船舶设计工作实际上是在船东和船厂互动过程中完成的,正确、合理、及时地处理船东意见是一项十分重要而且需要技巧和耐心的工作。文章从技术和经济角度,阐述了在船舶设计中要高度重视船东意见,包括船东对技术规格书的意见、船东对详细设计图纸的认可意见和船东代表现场意见等,并对如何管理和控制船东意见提出了自己的见解。     

On the global ship hull bending energy in ship collisions

During ship collisions part of the kinetic energy of the involved vessels immediately prior to contact is absorbed as energy dissipated by crushing of the hull structures, by friction and by elastic energy. The purpose of this report is to present an estimate of the elastic energy that can be stored in elastic hull vibrations during a ship collision.When a ship side is strengthened in order to improve the crashworthiness it has been argued in the scientific literature that a non-trivial part of the energy released for structural deformation during the collision can be absorbed as elastic energy in global ship hull vibrations, such that with strong ship sides less energy has to be spent in crushing of the striking ship bow and/or the struck ship side.In normal ship–ship collision analyses both the striking and struck ship are usually considered as rigid bodies where structural crushing is confined to the impact location and where local and global bending vibration modes are neglected. That is, the structural deformation problem is considered quasi-static. In this paper a simple uniform free–free beam model is presented for estimating the energy transported into the global bending vibrations of the struck ship hull during ship–ship collisions. The striking ship is still considered as a rigid body. The local interaction between the two ships is modeled by a linear load–deflection relation.The analysis results for a simplified model of a struck coaster and of a large tanker show that the elastic energy absorbed by the struck ship normally is small and varies from 1 to 6% of the energy released for crushing. The energy stored as elastic global hull girder vibrations depends on the ship mass, the local stiffness of the side structure, and of the position of contact. The results also show that in case of highly strengthened ship sides the maximum global bending strains during collisions can lead to hull failure.     

世界钻井船市场发展现状

从钻井船的船龄结构、建造年份、船东、运营商、建造商,设计型式、作业水域、工作水深、钻井深度等方面论述了钻井船市场现状,展望了钻井船市场的未来发展。指出虽然在未来一两年内世界钻井船新船订造市场仍可能较为谨慎,但由于未来世界深海油气的开采对于钻井船的大量需求,钻井船建造市场的长期走势仍值得期待。     

船舶设计中的项目管理模式探讨

项目管理作为以项目为对象的系统管理方法,已在工程建设中得到普遍应用和发展,而应用于工程设计在我国还不普遍,船舶设计行业尚处于探索、总结和完善阶段.根据工程设计管理模式的变化,结合708研究所在多型船舶设计实施设计项目管理的情况,对船舶设计实施项目管理进行探讨,有利于提高项目质量,降低成本,提高设计院的竞争力.     

A risk appraisal system regarding the implementation of maritime regulations by a ship operator

The shipping industry operates in a regulatory framework, where the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is the leading regulatory body. The role of the IMO is to propose maritime regulations to its member states. The successful worldwide implementation of a maritime regulation depends on how many member states adopt it. However, many maritime regulations are not adequately implemented worldwide. As a result, ship operators have found themselves in an uncomfortable position in developing their business in an unstable regulatory regime. This paper proposes an extendable and applicable methodology involving a System of Hierarchical Scorecards (SHS) to measure the implementation costs and benefits of a newly introduced or existing maritime regulation by ship operators. The regulators may use the results in evaluating newly introduced and/or existing regulations through taking into account the economic burden that will be generated to ship operators. In this paper, SHS is extended to demonstrate its applicability on evaluating a ship operator’s organization with regard to his regulatory implementation performance by the means of a case study.     

葛洲坝船闸水工建筑物运行维护管理实践

葛洲坝船闸水工建筑物的质量直接影响水利枢纽的使用寿命。葛洲坝船闸运行38年以来,严格执行国家、部颁法律法规及标准对其水工建筑物进行运行维护管理,建立科学规范的维护管理体系,加强日常巡查、仪器监测、日常维护和监测数据管理,采取船闸监测设施自动化改造、结构缝渗漏处理等工程处理措施,创新船闸检修施工方法、工艺和技术,构建船闸快速检修体系,组建专业船闸检修队伍,不断提升运行维护的管理能力和水平,从而确保葛洲坝船闸水工建筑物安全、稳定运行。     

国际船舶管理业最新动态

作为航运业中管理权和所有权分离的结果,专业船舶管理业和船舶管理公司已经成为国际航运业的一个重要分支。根据国际船舶管理业的最新动态,即Intermanager提出确立船舶管理业统一的KPI,分析采取这一举措的原因,并预测可能带来的影响,为我国船舶管理业的发展提供借鉴。     

基于Delphi的Free!ship二次开发初探

Free!ship软件以其功能强大、界面友好以及免费使用等优势得到广泛应用。对船舶初步设计的工作而言,希望在完成线型设计前,该软件也能对主尺度进行确定,而Free!ship现有功能还不能满足这一要求。为此利用Free!ship提供的二次开发环境,在Free!ship2.6版本原有功能的基础上,对软件进行二次开发。以主尺度优化模块及用Delphi编程确定添加灵便型油轮主尺度为例,提出了开发的方法及步骤,为进一步的研究和开发该软件提供了基础。     

Towards a short time “feature-based costing” for ship design

Cost is perhaps the most influential factor in the outcome of a product or service within many of today’s industries. Cost assessment during the early stage of ship design is crucial. It influences the go, no-go decision concerning a new development. Cost assessment occurs at various stages of ship design development. Economic evaluation as early as possible, in the design phase, is therefore vital to find the best pricefunction compromise for the ship projects. The authors have developed a feature-based costing model for cost effectiveness measurements intended to be used by ship designers for the real time control of cost process. The outcome is that corrective actions can be taken by management in a rather short time to actually improve or overcome predicted unfavourable performance.     

基于设计生产管理一体化的船舶物资编码研究

从设计生产管理一体化的角度分析了现代造船企业中船舶物资编码的现状和存在问题,阐述了现行的物资编码体系无法实施的原因,在此基础上提出了符合设计生产管理一体化的物资编码方案,并对该方案下的物资编码自动生成过程进行了详细描述。     

模型的某些简化对船舶舱室噪声预报的影响研究

本文以某化学品油船为目标船舶,利用VA One软件建立其统计能量分析模型并预报其舱室噪声,随后对模型进行了某些简化,研究了液舱内的液体介质和双层底结构的改变对舱室噪声预报的影响.研究结果表明液舱内的液体介质和双层底的具体结构形式对于舱室的噪声影响很小,可以不予考虑,今后在建立船舶的统计能量分析模型时,可以将双层底简化为一个大的声腔,从而减少建模工作量,提高效率.     

水上过驳装卸工艺系统设计及运输船舶的选择

针对某些国家和地区的航道水深等建港条件受限、大宗散货进口或出运而建设大型码头成本巨大的问题,探讨通过水上过驳系统中转,减少港口建设及营运成本的可行性。结合孟加拉电厂配套煤炭码头的设计过程,探讨如何确定水上过驳装卸工艺系统。采用理论计算和模拟仿真的方式,选择不同的船型组合,合理选择运输船型,并根据乘潮情况确定航道参数。结果表明,采用水上过驳中转系统,可避免大型码头建设及长距离航道的疏浚维护费用,水上过驳成本相对于货物价值影响不大,可作为码头建设一个可行的选择方案。