Evaluation and Recommendations in Formal Safety Assessment of Containerships

3 Evaluations and Recommendations in Formal Safety Assessment of Containerships 

It becomes apparent that there is still plenty of room for improvement on containership safety. Areas on which such improvement can be achieved include, but not limited to (Wang and Foinikis (2001))  

Such areas are described in more detail as follows  

Mainly due to their configuration and the increased demand for full capacity utilisation, coupled by the subsequent increase in the vessels sizes, containerships face the problem of increased structural stresses (i.e. bending moments, searing forces and torsion). The establishment of 

In addition to the above, stress monitoring both in harbour and open-sea conditions, would provide a useful tool for the safe operation of large containerships producing information on both the current structural stress levels of the vessel and any possible deviations from the precalculated figures. Thus, Real Time Stress Monitoring Systems , should not be considered optional , but become compulsory for containership sizes of Panamax (3,000 TEU) and above. 

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