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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
 

Site last updated Friday, October 08, 2004.