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SURVIVABILITY IN THE FOCUS
CONTRIBUTORS
Sami J. Anteroinen
Merja Kihl
Ari Mononen
Survivability of the entire ship is the key issue when we are thinking
about the future of the European marine industry. This is an actual focus when shipping and shipbuilding companies are designing
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and building bigger and bigger vessels where thousands of people
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are working and having fun.
Number of countries has already combined their research ef-
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forts in their willingness to participate in the SURSHIP co-operation.
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SURSHIP comes from the words “Survivability of Ships” and the aim
is to develop methods, technologies and rules for practical applica-
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tion, which will significantly improve safety and survivability of ships
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as well as risk prediction.
We Finns are building really large vessels in Turku. The international classification companies are working in Finland and taking
care of the marine safety. But the survivability of the entire ship is
a bigger question than we can see in this moment, when we are,
with good luck, living without any really big cruise vessel accident.
In the nuclear industry Harrisburg and then Chernobyl in the final stage opened eyes on how important is PSA (Probability Safety
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Analyses). There is, at the moment, a big need of similar risk evaluation in the marine industry.
International Maritime Organisation IMO and its Maritime Safety Committee do good work by advancing the knowledge of the behaviour of the damaged ships. SURSHIP is also a good opening for
the co-operation in the marine safety organising. No country can
do it alone but together we can do it.
We do not want any more Titanics and Estonias, and survivability is also a question of European shipbuilding competitiveness in
the long run.
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