Class 2 (2nd Engineer) MEKG 📅 Dec 2018

Exam Question

You have been appointed as Second Engineer on a crude carrier, recently purchased by your shipping company. The company superintendent requests that you examine the vessel with a view to increasing its deadweight capacity without altering the ship's length. Outline the suggestions that you would make, justifying your proposals.

Reference Answer

To increase the ship’s deadweight capacity, one must increase one or more of the following parameters: length, breadth, draught, or block coefficient. Since the question specifically excludes any increase in length , the remaining options must be examined.
Increasing the breadth or the block coefficient would be structurally complex and generally impractical for an existing vessel.
Therefore, the most feasible approach is to increase the draught , which can be achieved by reducing the assigned freeboard in accordance with Load Line Regulations.
As the vessel is a dry cargo ship (Type B) , it normally attracts the maximum freeboard . Thus, any opportunity to reduce freeboard could directly increase the allowable draught and, consequently, the deadweight.

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