ANALYSIS AND STATISTICS OF LARGE TANKERS

A compilation is given of operating statistics for tankers in the 50,000- to 500,000-ton range. These statistics are plotted for construction cost, insurance cost, crew cost maintenance and repair cost, fuel consumption, and overhead cost all versus total deadweight. Actual operating time of tankers in the 200,000-ton range is limited to the Tokyo Maru ( 150,000 tons ) and the Idemitsu Maru (206,000 tons ). However, these statistics are also based on the expected operating costs of the 312,000-ton tankers presently under construction, and the 500,000-ton tanker being designed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. In Appendices I and II, a proposed 1,000,000-ton tanker is compared with the Idemitsu Maru for two trade routes. The objective of this comparison is to find the maximum permissible construction cost of the megaton tankers by using the required freight rate of the Idemitsu Maru as an economic goal.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Paper for the Philadelphia Section of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October, 1968.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  Department of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
  Ann Arbor, MI  United States  48109
• Authors:
  • Keith, Virgil F
• Publication Date: 1968-10

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References;
• Pagination: 30 p.
• Serial:
  • Issue Number: 004

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Costs; Operating costs; Tanker shipping
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cost analysis
• Old TRIS Terms: Tanker economics
• Subject Areas: Finance; Marine Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00007032
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 25 1973 12:00AM