TRANSHIPMENT IN THE SEVENTIES-A STUDY OF CONTAINER TRANSPORT-2 THE CONTAINER SHIP COST MODEL

In the analysis of the through transport system costs described in the preceding article, it was necessary to estimate how the costs of container ship operations depended on the size and speed of the ships. Most studies of this nature, although deriving mathematical relation- ships between the variables involved, have been based on extrapolations from a small number of design studies. In this study, A. D. Little Ltd. commissioned the Department of Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to provide a means of rapidly estimating the technical and economic characteristics, and from these the capital and operating costs, of a cellular container vessel of any specified size and speed, carrying between 800 and 3,500 containers at a speed between 20 and 35 knots. The cost model established, which it is believed will be of interest to marine economists, naval architects and those engaged in through transport studies, is described here in sufficient detail to permit alternative calculations to be made, and in particular to enable the effect of alternative labour and steel costs to be examined.

• Corporate Authors:

  National Ports Council

  17 North Audley Street
  London W1Y 1WE,   England 
• Publication Date: 1970-5

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 267-275
• Serial:
  • Research and Technical Bulletin
  • Issue Number: N7
  • Publisher: National Ports Council

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Containerships; Operating costs; Shipbuilding; Ships; Vehicle design
• Uncontrolled Terms: Ship design
• Subject Areas: Design; Marine Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00007592
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 22 1974 12:00AM