Methodology of assessing the production capacity of selected shipyards

Abstract

The paper deals with selected subjects in the European EUREKA „Baltecologicalship" E/2772 project. Within the project, preliminary designs of four feeder (short shipping) ships have been developed based on the market trend research, design knowledge and experi- mental investigations. The following tasks were to be performed for one of the ships: defining optimum building conditions (timescale, production technologies, ecological aspect), selecting shipyards meeting the minimum production capacity requirement. For that purpose an index method was developed (based on the design and production indices). Then an index analysis was performed of the production capacities of selected shipyards (and also different configurations of cooperation between them) and results were presented in a form of the Gantt diagrams. Final conclusions were drawn.