Number 01005 2. Keywords Shipbuilding, Ship Repair, Ship Maintenance 6.
Shipbuilding is a high technology industry and a global business.
Whatever the reasons, one of the major competitive disadvantages of Shipbuilding is cost . International shipbuilders need therefore not only to improve their human resources but also to increase their productivity by concurrent and simultaneous engineering. SME Shipyards represent a under capacity of high-tech industrial facilities in the world. This will enable SME shipyards to compete with the big shipyard entities particularly with the more competitive ones, most important of all, to create business for the SME yards and their suppliers. The project will be based on SME shipbuilding and ship repairing and maintenance, in co-operation with the ship operators and classification societies.