Have you found the best partner to build your vessel? Shipbuilding is a niche market which has a high entry barrier level. despite all of that, we could find many shipbuilding companies which have its own specialization. Startup business and medium business usually focusing to build a vessel that can be used for many things or a multi-function vessel so that they could lower the cost. While developed or big companies tend to build a very big vessel that is already specialized in their line of business like a bulk carrier and LNG or Gas carrier. You can start to narrow down the options of the potential partner by the type of vessel that you need, the quality of the vessel, and classification of the vessel.
There are many types of the vessel which divided based on its function.
1. Bulk Carrier: The bulk carrier is built and designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo in its cargo holds. The unpackaged bulk cargo can be in the form of grain, coal, ore, and many others.
2. Tanker: Tanker is designed to transport cargo in the liquid form. The most basic form of the tanker is an oil tanker and chemical tanker. Just like the name, the oil tanker is used to transport oil-based product, while the chemical tanker is used to transport chemicals. Usually, the quality of the tankers can also be determined from the coating material besides the structure.
3. Landing craft tank: LCT is designed to transport heavy equipment, heavy duty, heavy materials, and mostly being used in a low infrastructure country.
4. Ferry: Ferry is designed to transport vehicle and passenger which usually used as an inter-island transport
5. General Cargo: This vessel is designed to be able to carry many cargos in the form of a container. This type of vessel usually used by the big shipping company to transport export and import goods.
6. Tugboat: Tugboat is designed to maneuver vessels that cannot move by themselves or should not move by themselves by pushing or towing them.
There are other types of vessel, so many of them like barges, self-propelled barge, crew boat, and others, But we will not discuss those in this article.
The quality of the vessel usually measured by the classification of the vessel in most cases. There is two classification which is international used and Local. International classification is named International Association of Classifications Societies (IACS) class. IACS consists of 12 members which are ABS, BV, CCS, CRS, DNV-GL, IR, KR, NK, PRS, RS, and RINA. You can visit this link http://www.iacs.org.uk/about/members/ to learn more about IACS Class. IACS class vessel will allow you to sail around the world. On the other hand, the local class can only allow you to sail within the local class territory.
You can narrow down your partner options by considering these two factors. What kind of vessel do you need and what classification do you need. There are actually many other factors that need to be considered such as materials of the vessel, availability of the warranty, and many others. However, we would discuss those topics in other articles.
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