PR Center Ship Story Basic Information on Ships

Why can ships that are made of steel float on the water? Buoyancy
is what it makes a ship float. This is based on Archimedes Principle.
A Greek scholar named Archimedes was given the order by the king
to prove that his crown was made of pure gold. After obsessing for
a few days over how he was going to prove it, Archimedes
discovered the principle of displacement while stepping into a full
bathtub. He realized that the water that ran out of the bath had an
equal volume to the part of his body that was submerged.
This concept can be equally applied to ships. The force of buoyancy
is equal to the weight of the water displaced by an object. The
buoyant force on a submerged material is exerted in the opposite
direction to gravity. The buoyant force is equal to the volume of the
fluid that is displaced by the material; however, the wider the area
that is touching the surface of the water, the better the material will
float.
If the material in the water weighs less than the same volume of
water, it will not submerge. This is because the buoyant force is
larger than the weight of the material. Therefore, when a ship is
made to weigh less than the water that it pushes aside, it will float.

A ship starts when compressed air is supplied directly to the
cylinder within the engine. When the ship starts, the propeller wing
rotates, pushing water backwards and making the ship run forward
in response. It operates on the same principle as a fan. The
propeller of the ship has the same structure as a fan. The faster the
propeller rotates, the greater the amount of water it can push back,
and the stronger the ship will be propelled forward.
Once the engine has been started, it is difficult to reverse the ship.
If the ship has to be reversed, the engine must first be stopped,
and then reverse-rotated.


This is the unit used to measure the size of container ships,
and stands for Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units.

This is an index designed to assess the freight rates of
tankers. The world-scale rate for a particular route represents


a voyage charter rate for a hypothetical 75,000 DWT tanker
running at a 14-knot speed. It is considered to be in a boom
when the WS of a VLCC is over 75.

After the US oil tanker Exxon Valdez was stranded in Alaska in
March 1989, severely polluting the ocean, the US instituted
the Oil Pollution Act in 1990, which required all oil tankers
operating in US territorial waters to have a double hull
structure. A tanker with a double hull structure has a double
wall within the tank, both vertically and horizontally, thus
preventing oil leakage even when the external hull is
breached.

Located in Panama, this canal connects the Caribbean Sea
and the Pacific Ocean, and is 67 kilometers long and 32.32
meters wide. Ships that can pass through the canal must have
a width of less of 32.24 meters (less than 50,000-80,000
DWT).

Located in Egypt, this canal connects the Mediterranean Sea
and the Red Sea, and is 163 kilometers long and 195 meters
deep. (Dredging work started in 1985. Prior to the start of
dredging work, it was only 14.5 meters deep.) Limited to
ships with a draft of less than 16.1 meters

A knot is the unit of measurement of a ships speed. 1 knot is
equivalent to a speed of 1,852 meters per hour



The installation of various pipes, electrical wires, and devices at
the internal and external parts of a block that is already
assembled

The elimination of foreign substances (such as rust and oil) on
the surface of the steel of a block where pre-outfitting is
completed

The enlargement of a block by gathering 2-3 blocks on which
painting has already been completed around the dock

The welding of the enlarged blocks, both automatically and
manually, at the dock, thus making the form of the ship

The elimination of foreign substances generated in the
connection part during loading, and the painting of the steel



surface

The floating of a ship whose form has been made through
welding, and whose painting is completed

A trial at sea (of criteria such as speed, fuel consumption, etc.),
as agreed in the contract

An event to name a ship whose construction has been
completed

The delivery of a ship to the client, whose functions have been
confirmed as conforming to the contract