Norway's Fjellstrand Shipyard Rewriting the Shipbuilding Book

摘要

The process of designing and building a ship, even in today's highly standardized mass manufacturing environment, remains largely a one-off, one-of-a-kind design and build. Ships are most often built to a shipowner's or~2 operator's specific requirements, which are often base'd on fixed parameters such as speed, fuel consumption, route and cargo or passenger capacity. Blueprints are created, detailed plans are approved by a classification society, financing is secured and building is started, block by unique block.