INTERNATIONAL MULTI-CONFERENCE on Maritime Research and Technoloqy EUROCONFERENCE on PASSENGER SHIP DESIGN, OPERATION &:SAFETY
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NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITV OF ATHENS DEPARTMENT OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE AND MARINE ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL MULTI-CONFERENCE On Maritime Research and Technoloqy EUROCONFERENCE ON PASSENGER SHIP DESIGN, OPERATION &:SAFETY HOTEL KNOSSOS ROVAL VILLAGE OCTOBER 15-19 2001 PG ENTr 1Wng adiMWIlyWof .' NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS DEPARTMENT OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE AND MARINE ENGINEERING EUROCONFERENCE PASSENGER SHIP DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION AND SAFETY Edited by A. Papanikolaou & K. Spyrou Knossos Royal Village, Anissaras, Crete, Greece October 15-17, 2001 EUROCONFERENCE ON PASSENGER SHIP DESIGN, CONSTRUCtION. SAFETY AND OPERATION - Crete, October 2001 WELCOME - INTRODUCTION It is with great pleasure that I welcome you all to the International Maritime Research and Technology multi-conference organised by the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. Following the successful organisation of the 3rd International Stability Workshop on "Contemporary problems of ship stability and operational safety" in 1997 in Crete, a number of prominent colleagues dealing with maritime R&D in Europe and overseas asked NTUA to consider hosting again a series of conferences and meeting events at the beautiful island of Crete. The response was, of course, positive despite of the anticipation of organisational problems related to the uniqueness of this multi- conference. I am very pleased to see you all here, especially those of you who have come from overseas. We are expecting over the next few days close to 200 colleagues and friends from all over Europe, USA and Japan, a clear indication of high expectations and of interesting days ahead. We count among the participants not only internationally recognised experts but also more than 20 young researchers of European academic and industrial institutions thanks to the support of the TMR programme of the European Commission. The multi-conference consists of the following series of events: 1. A EUROCONFERENCE on Passenger Ship Design, Operation and Safety (October 15-17, 2001) 2. The WEGEMT Annual Conference (October 17, 2001) 3. The Annual Conferences of Thematic Networks SAFER-EURORO, MARNET-CFD, CEPS & PRODIS (October 18-19, 2001). 4. Various Meetings of European R&D projects and of International Committees, particularly the Ship Stability Committee of ITTC and the Executive Committee of the International Marine Design Conference, as pre- or post conference events. The proceedings in hand refer to the papers presented during the EUROCONFERENCE on Passenger Ship Design, Operation and Safety, the first major event of the Multi-conference. The aim of this conference is to address in depth various contemporary issues related to passenger ship design and construction, operation, economy and safety, taking into account recent regulatory and maritime policy matters affecting both safety and economy of passenger ships. This aim was tackled by ensuring the presence of internationally recognised speakers from the whole spectrum of the passenger ship maritime industry, including maritime regulatory and policy authorities, research and academic institutions. Twenty seven papers cover the subject of the EUROCONFERENCE in a unique way, considering the -latest developments of naval architecture and passenger shipbuilding, passenger ship operation, economy, safety and of the international regulatory framework. The EUROCONFERENCE presentations close with a historical paper on the work of the great Greek scientist Archimedes presenting recent evidence to prove that the original ideas of ship stability criteria (and of ship safety), besides floatability, can be found amongst his impressive work, dated back almost 2300 years. EUROCONFERENCE ON PASSENGER SHIP DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, SAFETy AND OPERATION - Crete. October 2001 The organisation of the planned series of events would have been impossible without the active help of all members of the International Organising Committee, particularly Professor Dracos Vassalos (Strathclyde University - SSRC, WEGEMT, ITTC & SAFER-EURORO), Mr. Patrick Person (COREDES & Chantiers de P' Atlantique, CEPS & PRODIS), Dr. Paul Gallagher (WS ATKINS and MARNET-CFD), R. Adm. Antony Kaloudis (Greek Shipowners Association for Passenger Ships), Ass. Prof. Kostas Spyrou (National Technical University of Athens), Jim Grant (WEGEMT), members of the staff of the Ship Design Laboratory - National Technical University of Athens, particularly Ms. Valia Leoutsea, Ms. Aimilia Alissafaki and Ms. Eleftheria Eliopoulou and of many other friends here in Crete, who contributed in various ways to the organisation of this conference. I wish to acknowledge the financial support of the EUROCONFERENCE on Passenger Ship Design, Construction, Operation, Economy and Safety by the European Commission (DG XII, programme TMR-CODESO, contract no. HPCF-CT- 1999-00104) and of the various other multi-conference social events by our sponsors MINOAN Lines, The Greek Shipowners Association for Passenger Ships, ANEK Lines and the Prefecture of Heraklion-Crete. Last but not least, I like to express my sincere thanks to all authors of the EUROCONFERENCE papers, the key-note speakers, the chairmen, delegates and all conference participants. I hope we will have some interesting days ahead of us discussing together what we all enjoy in one form or another, namely marine technology research and development and its impact in practice and to share our experiences and our vision towards a better maritime tomorrow. Apostolos D. Papanikolaou Chairman, International Multi-conference Committee ii INTERNATIONAL MULTI-CONFERENCE On Maritime Research and Technology EUROCONFERENCE ON PASSENGER SHIP DESIGN, OPERATION & SAFETY Annual Conferences of the European Thematic Networks SAFER-EURORO, MARNET-CFD, CEPS & PRODIS WEGEMT Annual Conference October 15-19, 2001 http://www.naval.ntua.gr/crete int conf 2001 ORGANISED BY National Technical University of Athens (Dept. of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering) WEGEMT (European Association of Universities in Marine Technology & Related Sciences) The European Thematic Networks SAFER-EURORO, MARNET-CFD, CEPS & PRODIS Following the successful organisation of the 3Pd International Stability Workshop on contemporary problems of stability and operational safety of ships in 1997, the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens is hosting a Multi-conference on Maritime Research and Technology at the beautiful island of Crete. The multi-conference consists of the following series of events: 1. EUROCONFERENCE on Passenger Ship Design. Operation and Safety (October 15-17, 2001) The aim of this conference' is to address in depth various contemporary passenger ship concepts, their design and construction, operation and economy and various regulatory and maritime policy issues affecting both their safety and economy. This aim is achieved by allowing in-depth discussion of a restricted number of invited papers of internationally recognised experts and authorities representing the whole spectrum of the passenger ship maritime industry, including maritime regulatory and policy authorities, research and academic institutions. The conference comprises five (5) sessions to address the following areas: * Introductory session * PassengerShip Design & Construction * PassengerShip Economy & Operation * PassengerShip Safety * Passenger Ship Regulations & Policy Each session will be guided by a discussion leader (co-ordinator), who will direct and encourage discussions based on the invited presentations2 and summarise the results, to be included in the final conference proceedings. The aim of the invited speakers. who have been selected strictly on the basis of their expertise and authority in the respected fields, will be to stimulate discussion in the session area by explaining their concepts and ideas and the specific problems identified in on-going front-end R&D, developments in the market of passenger shipping and in related regulatory and policy issues. Session The Euroconference is funded by the European Commission, DG XI1, programme TMR-CODESO 2 Available as pre-prints at the start of the EUROCONFERENCE iii EUROCONFERENCE ON PASSENGER SHIP DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, SAFETY AND OPERATION - Crete. October 2001 discussers will be selected by the session chairman from the list of participants and the plenary. Observers can take part in the round table discussion through the session chairman. 2. Annual Conferences of Thematic Networks SAFER-EURORO. MARNET-CFD. CEPS & PRODIS (October 17-19. 2001). Please note that this will be the closing Annual Conference for the SAFER EURORO and MARNET-CFD networks. 3. WEGEMT Annual Conference Relevant information about the above Thematic Networks and Annual Conferences can be found in the Appendix or by visiting relevant web site addresses as following: " SAFER-EURORO: httt://wxw.safercLroro.or/ " MARNET: http://pronet. \sutkins.co.uik/triarnet CEPS & PRODIS: htti://wwwv.marinfo.net/ " WEGEMT: hitp://www.wcent.or,.uk/ 4. Invited Paper of the WEGEMT Annual Conference - Closure Paper of Euroconference Prof. Dr.-lng. Dr. h.c. Horst Nowacki will present results of his recent research on the work of Archimedes and Ship Stability. The law of Archimedes (287 - 212 B.C.) for buoyancy and displacement is universally acclaimed, but his fundamental work on hydrostatic stability is much less widely known. In fact, however, resent investigations show that the original