Preliminary design of small semi-displacement passenger ships for the archipelago regions

Abstract

The development of rapid passenger transport in Indonesian archipelago regions is so fast in recent years. The previous survey conducted by the authors found the typical passenger boats with the capacity of 12 or 20 persons. Those small boats have the difficulties in operating at worse sea conditions. In addition, there are semi-displacement vessels with the capacity of 150 to 350 persons operated from certain seaports. In fact, there is a gap for the vessels with the capacity of 40 to 100 passengers. The purpose of the research is to provide small semi-displacement passenger vessels which may be operated from local small ports provided by the local government. The vessels were designed to follow standard procedure in ship design. The designed ship are small semi-displacement passenger vessels with the capacity of 40, 69 and 103 passengers. The design process was started by input design parameters due to ship missions and continued by design process up to determination of specification at preliminary design stage. The results of research are design specification of three vessels according to their dimensions and configuration. The results of this research should be followed by future detail design in order to provide the documents for the stakeholders.