MARAD Guideline
Specifications for Merchant Ship Construction, and its Executive
Summary
GUIDELINE
SPECIFICATIONS STATUS INFORMATION
The documents are
guideline metric specifications intended to provide guidance to the
maritime industry for the preparation of specifications for building
competitive commercial ships in the U.S. for domestic or export
markets. They each contain a total of 73 sections; the first 29
sections comprise the Hull Sections, and the remaining 44 sections
comprise the Machinery Sections.
Both documents have been
reviewed and commented on by members of the maritime industry.
The
Executive Summary contains132 pages, and the
Guideline Specifications contains 461 pages. Both
documents can be downloaded by following these eight easy steps:
1. Double click on the document name you want.
2. Save it to your file or your disk.
3. Click on the "Start" button (bottom left corner of computer
screen) and click
on "Run".
4. Click on the "Browse" button to locate where the document has
been saved
and click "Open".
5. Click "OK" and files will "explode" from the "zipped" format.
6. Open Microsoft Word and go to where you saved the document.
7. Each Section of the document is a separate file, i.e.,
Execsumm.0001,
Sect0001, etc.
8. Proceed by opening any section you need.
You may also order these
documents in hard copies by contacting
Sharon Nielsen
by phone at 202-366-1864 or mailing your request to:
Maritime Administration
Office of Shipbuilding and Marine Technology
ATTN: Mr. Joseph A. Byrne
MAR-760 Room 8101
400 7th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20590-0001
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