A Generic Ship for the Short Sea Trades of the EU

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.

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