Introduction
 
Explanation is being roughly given on the flow of work for a newbuilding: What steps are taken to build a ship? What arrangements should be prepared and decided from time of order for a newbuilding to time of delivery?
 
 
Start of project for a new shipbuilding
1.  demand and supply plan for ship space: survey of long-term market and its trends, exploration of new transport project, demand and supply plan for ship space on a long and short-term basis, and plan for putting a newbuilding into service, etc.
2. survey of shipbuilding market: trends of newbuilding price and dock availability
3. plan for construction of a newbuilding: examination of fundamental ship type, acquisition of estimated newbuilding price, financing, holding and management of the ship
4. preliminary order to a shipbuilding company: decision on specifications of main items and preliminary order price
5. conclusion of contracts for shipbuilding and for transportation: final decision on specifications, conclusion of contract for shipbuilding, conclusion of a transportation contract or time-charter contract with a customer or customers.
 
The above period is a very important initial stage that lasts usually about one year from the inception of a shipbuilding plan. After a shipbuilding contract has been concluded, we advance to a stage of designing a newbuilding. At this stage, every part of a ship is designed in detail and one year is spent exchanging views on the drawing and approving it. At the same time, when shipbuilding work starts, we make a plan for dispatch of staff in preparation for supervising practical work at the site.
Shipbuilding work starts at a dockyard when a drawing is almost approved. Steel plates (materials) are brought into the dockyard, which are processed according to the approved drawing. Thereafter, a variety of shipbuilding work is executed at the different sites for about 10 months before final delivery.
 
Further explanation is being given on a series of practical work with photos that may help you follow the entire process with considerable interest from start of work to final delivery. These are based on the case of the construction of VERRAZANO BRIDGE, a *Panamax containership that has been built at Ulsan Dockyard of Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., South Korea. Her construction was planned in preparation for commencement of our new U.S. East Coast Service (via Panama).
 
*PANAMAX
The Panama Canal plays an important role in linking the Pacific and Atlantic with the shortest sea route. Eventually, maximum dimensions are set for a ship to pass through the Canal in light of the Canalfs various structural limits: breadth maximum 32.2 meters and extreme length 294.13 meters. Naturally, the VERRAZANO BRIDGE is designed fully in consideration of those limits.

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