Shipbuilding industry : working relationship between ship owners and shipbuilders

• Main Authors: Oon, Elaine Qiuying., Huang, Doris Minghui., Lin, Cindy Sini.
• Other Authors: Williams, Edward Cameron Jr.
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Maritime studies::Maritime management and business
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/12790
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper presented the 4 key parties; namely: ship owner, shipbuilder, ship broker and maritime financier, using the generic model of the shipbuilding process as the framework. The objective of the paper is to analyze the inter-relations among these parties and the bi-lateral influence of their action and the market are analyzed within this paper taking into the account the roles and considerations of the respective parties. A research has also been conducted on the bulk carrier industry in this paper, as well as a projection on freight rate is conducted based on the factual information collected at the point of this paper.