Sea Trails of Large Container Ships

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The container carrier shipping industry faces nowadays a similar phenomenon that happened in the 90s with crude oil carriers: an imaginable gigantism not-forecasted even by the most optimistic specialists. In the last 20 years the demand in transportation by containers continuously grew. The reaction of Carriers was quick under this demand growth and began an exacerbate competition not only in size of their fleets but in the size of their vessels as well. Before building a new vessel, a set of simulations and tests of prototypes and models is done, in order to apply corrections of the initial projects but, the practice showed that each vessel is different and its behavior at sea, too. In order to be acquainted to dealing with the various situations at sea, the true measurements of the vessels performance are done in her sea trials. The purpose of this paper is to update this Sea trials process, to detail it and to bring the contemporary element: measurement technologies, calculations, mathematical models.

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