Project Aims
- To undertake a thorough examination of current practices in the field of ship repair and to propose improvements to the underlying processes in consultation with industry.
- Review existing and emerging technologies appropriate for ship repair practices and to propose areas for the development of technologies for future application
- Consider a framework that will be capable of determining the extent of repair work that an existing ship could safely undergo with minimum additional risk of structural failure for the rest of her service life, in a rational way
- Encourage best practice in the tanker shipping and ship repair community.
- To effectively disseminate the results and facilitate the acceptance by European society and by industry.
- To coordinate these efforts and to demonstrate the positive effect of this coordination through the participation in integrated projects (IPs), Networks of Excellence (NoE), Strategic Targeted Research Projects (STREPs) and other Coordinated Actions (CAs) for effective distribution of best practice.