Parametric method of preliminary prediction of the ship building costs

Abstract

Paper presents results of studies on a parametric method of predicting ship building costs -useful in the preliminary design. Conception and theoretical basis of the method are presented, devised are also approximation formulae for estimating the building costs of the ship hull, ship equipment and the power plant with propulsion Factors of importance for the ship building costs are identified and a computational algorithm formulated. The useful character of the method is illustrated by examples of building cost predictions for four different ship types designed in the Eureka project E/2772, i.e.: SINE 202 universal container carrier, SINE 203 oil product tanker, SINE 204 ro-ro ship and SINE 205 river-sea ship.