Background

Ships are capital intensive, complex assets of advanced technology, capabilities and earning potential. Their values, both of new and secondhand, critically depend on such characteristics. A good understanding therefore of marine technology and innovation is a prerequisite for efficient shipping operations, sound investments, and competitiveness. Such an understanding includes the rich historical development of ships and their innovations; their technical and legal requirements and restrictions; and a general overview of aspects like main dimensions, hull forms, propulsion and powering systems, the anatomy of a ship, its safety (including stability); and an overview of the design, engineering and production processes including an overview of cost drivers. Based on examples, a formal shipping innovation methodology is presented, which structures the complex process of identifying innovation triggers, performance benchmarking, S-curve shifts and design creativity.

Objectives

The objective of the Marine Technology and Innovation module is to provide students with sufficient knowledge of ship design and operations which will assist them operate as better managers and informed investors or financiers. Students should also understand processes that trigger innovation in shipping and its impact on ports and other parts of the supply chain.

Recommended reading

• Evaluation of Ship Design Alternatives
  A. Aalbers
  Proceedings WEGEMT school on ship propulsion, Delft, 2000
• Ship Design and Safety
  A. Aalbers
  IMSDC conference key note, The Hague, 1998
• Management of Marine Designs
  Stian Erichsen
  Butterworths 1989
• Naval Architecture for non-naval architects
  Harry Benford
  SNAME, 1991.
• Ship Knowledge: A modern encyclopedia
  K. van Dokkum
  Dokmar, 2003 (www.dokmar.com)
• DESIGN INNOVATION IN SHIPPING, Delft University Press, 1995.
  N. Wijnolst
• SHIPPING, Delft University Press, 1996.
  N. Wijnolst, T. Wergeland
• MALACCA-MAX; THE ULTIMATE CONTAINER CARRIER, Delft University Press, 1999.
  N. Wijnolst, M. Scholtens, F.A.J. Waals
• MALACCA-MAX [2]: CONTAINER SHIPPING NETWORK  ECONOMY, Delft University Press, 2000.
  N. Wijnolst et al.
• Ship: The epic story of the maritime adventure (5,000 years of history)
  Brian Lavery
  Smithsonian, 2004
• The golden age of shipping: The classic merchant ship 1900-1960
  Robert Gardiner (editor)
  Conway Maritime Press, 1994
• The shipping revolution: The modern merchant ship
  Robert Gardiner
  Conway Maritime Press, 1992
• A century of tankers
  John Newton
  Intertanko, 2002
• The evolution of dry bulk shipping 1945-1990
  Birger Nossum
  Oslo, Norway 1996
• The Box: How the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger
  Marc Levinson
  Princeton University Press, 2006
• The box that changed the world: fifty years of container shipping – an illustrated history
  Arthur Donovan, Joseph Bonney
  Commonwealth Business Media, 2006