Abstract
I t is almost an axiom of the steamship business that the best ship for any trade is one that has been designed expressly to meet the particular needs of the route to which the vessel is assigned. This belief is not vitiated by the fact that many ships have been built in assembly line fashion to a single pattern, and have been used in widely different services. Standardized ships are accepted only because the cost of planning, designing, and building ships intended particularly for certain trades is so great. Every shipowner cherishes a dream of the perfect ship for one special type of employment, and every ship built to individual specifications embodies as much of those dreams as the vision and skill of the naval architect can transform into reality.
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Kendall, L.C. (1986). Planning for a New Ship. In: The Business of Shipping. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4117-5_19
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