THE PROCEDURE FOR CALCULATION OF THE OPTIMAL CARRYING CAPACITY OF PUSHED CONVOY BASED ON PARAMETERS OBTAINED BY EXPERIMENTS IN ACTUAL NAVIGATING CONDITIONS

Exploitation and technical parameters of a ship are very important qualitative characteristics which determine the efficiency of the use of any kind of transportation vessels both for pushboats and for pushed convoys as a whole. Some of the most important exploitation and technical parameters are: parameter of transport efficiency, tonnage quality parameter, and thrust output of propeller. The complexity of these parameters can be seen from the fact that they present the values of achieved payload-distance during transportation of cargo in the unit of time per unit of installed (or effective) power of propelling engines of ships.