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News framework which will also permit the approval of innovative ships that chal- lenge today's rules. Nine specimen designs, covering cruise liners, RoPax ferries, gas tankers, oil tankers and con- tainer ships, will be used to demonstrate the project results.

The SAFEDOR project will encom- pass a number of individual studies.

Amongst the topics scheduled for review are ship structural integrity and assessment of the flooding, collision, grounding, fire and explosion risks.

Other subjects for consideration are bridge management and operations, cargo securing and lifesaving arrange- ments. "Employing a holistic risk-based methodology to ship design is a compar- atively new approach," said

Germanischer Lloyd's Pierre Sames who is serving as chairman of the four- year SAFEDOR project. "However, a handful of rules that have emerged from risk considerations introduced in recent years, including those for fire safety, high-speed craft and probabilistic dam- age stability, highlight the potential safe- ty benefits to be gained from their use. It should also be possible for us to capital- ize on the advances in risk-based design and approval that are being made in other sectors."

Shipyards, owners and shipping com- panies will be given many new opportu- nities for achieving the optimum design as a dynamic balance between fabrica- tion expenditure and operating costs, a prescribed safety level, and possible innovations. European yards and suppli- ers in particular are expecting an appre- ciable increase in their level of competi- tiveness in the wake of implementation of this know-how and technology based approach.

The SAFEDOR Project

SAFEDOR stands for "Design,

Operation and Regulation for Safety".

The SAFEDOR Steering Committee includes representatives from across the industry spectrum, from flag states (Danish Maritime Authority), classifica- tion societies (Germanischer Lloyd,

DNV ) shipowners (Carnival plc) and shipyards (IZAR) to equipment manu- facturers (SAM Electronics) and acade- mia (Glasgow and Strathclyde

Universities). SAFEDOR is compatible with other new initiatives seeking to raise the profile of safety in ship design, most notably the goal-based standards now being developed at the IMO, and the common rules for tanker and bulk carrier construction which the

International Association of

Classification Societies (IACS) is work- ing on.

Find out more at www.safedor.org

Questions & Answers

Q SAFEDOR … Why Now?

A In recent years several maritime casualties with major consequences have occurred in European waters.

Notable amongst these have been the

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