On July 3 and 4, 2008, a conference will be held in London on design and operation of container ships. Naval architects, designers and operators are still exploring all the possibilities of designing and building bigger container ships. The trend towards increased size of this kind of commercial vessels presents a lot of challenges not only for the people who builds them but to the people who will run this ships. Structural strength, severe weather loads and stability, deck cargo arrangements, safety and speed of loading and unloading, potential problems with securing the containers to resist green water, they say will be addressed as issues to be discussed. I hope that this people would also address the issue of safety for the crew who will run this giant ships across the seas and the oceans.
(Source: Infodesk, Marinetalk)
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