China News Service, December 9th (Yin Liqin, Hao Xueying) On December 9, the 150,000 gross tonnage large cruise ship independently developed and designed by China Shipbuilding Corporation Limited, a subsidiary of China Shipbuilding Corporation Limited, obtained the principle of the Italian Classification Society ( AIP) Approval Certificate. This is China's first independent research and development and design of a large-scale cruise ship with independent intellectual property rights. It breaks the long-term foreign technology blockade and monopoly in this field in one fell swoop, and opens a new era of independent design for China's large-scale cruise ships.
Sheng Jigang, member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy General Manager of China Shipbuilding Corporation, attended the award ceremony and delivered a speech.
The renderings of large cruise ships independently developed and designed by CSSC.
Photo by Hao Xueying
The 150,000 gross tonnage large cruise ship is positioned as a popular cruise ship, with a total length of 329.4 meters and a width of 38.4 meters. The passenger space ratio, passenger crew ratio, balcony room ratio, passenger public area area, speed, load capacity and other technical indicators have all reached The advanced level of international similar mainstream ship types, adopting straight forward ship type, meeting the latest International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) 2020 damage stability requirements, as well as the third stage of the ship energy efficiency design index (EEDI), and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) 0.5 % Sulfide emissions, 2006 International Maritime Labour Convention (MLC 2006), International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) mooring and towing design and other latest regulations and specifications.
It is particularly worth mentioning that, in order to comply with the new trend of aging cruise passengers, the ship type also embodies the barrier-free design concept of passages and facilities in terms of general layout and cabin planning, and the corresponding level of technical standards has been compiled.
In addition, when planning the public areas and cabins of this type of ship, crew room areas and leisure facilities were added; the passenger area also took into account the special needs of Chinese cruise passengers, such as increasing the cafeteria area, adding connecting rooms, and family rooms. Proportion and so on.
The large cruise ship independently developed and designed by CSSC has obtained the Certificate of Principle (AIP) approval by the Italian Bureau of Shipping.
Photo by Hao Xueying
The 150,000 gross tonnage large cruise ship obtained AIP is an important beginning for China State Shipbuilding Corporation to gradually grasp the initiative of the domestic large cruise ship project.
Large-scale cruise ships have a large number of people, and aim to provide tourists with the ultimate leisure and entertainment experience, emphasizing comfort, humanization, and safety, involving artistic design, ultra-standard alternative design, safe return to port, large-scale dynamic flow, high-end interior decoration Decoration, human factors engineering, hotel service design and other core and cross-field key technologies, the R&D design, final assembly construction and supply chain difficulty are far from comparable to those of general ship types. In particular, the R&D and design of large cruise ships has been monopolized by a few European companies for a long time. blockade.
In the future, under the leadership of China Shipbuilding Corporation, CSSC will continue to realize the localization of the core system of large cruise ships through the research and development of ship types with independent intellectual property rights and the integrated design of core systems, consolidate the technical foundation of my country's cruise localization, and form my country's cruise ships. The effect of industrial agglomeration, the improvement of the upstream and downstream supply chain of my country’s cruise ship, accelerate the formation of China’s cruise industry ecosystem, open a new era of large cruise ship design and construction, and promote my country’s shipbuilding industry to deepen supply-side structural reforms and achieve high-quality development. Powerful countries in science and technology, manufacturing power, maritime power, and transportation power provide important strategic support.
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