REDUNDANT SHIP MACHINERY PAYS

A Scandinavian consortium, which has studied the feasibility of various options for incorporating redundancy in merchant ships claims that to avoid the need for on-voyage repairs ships, such as tankers and passenger vessels, should not be built with engine-room machinery containing many components whose failure are critical to the ship's propulsion or manoeuvring.

  • Supplemental Notes:
    • Shipcare & Maritime Management, May 1995, p 29 [2 p, 4 fig]
  • Authors:
    • Kitchen, N
  • Publication Date: 1995

Language

  • English

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00716946
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: British Maritime Technology
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Mar 4 1996 12:00AM