a ship herself. Therefore appearance of an actual technical novation in
the field of communication, navigation and control gives rise, as a rule, to its prompt
inculcation on board of ships and simultaneously leads to strict necessity of immediate
and appropriate correction in corresponding training course.
New achievements of power engineering, particularly in the field of
ship prime movers, give rise to inculcation on stage of projecting, partially, building
and very seldom by general modernization of earlier built ships. Furthermore, the ship
power installation technical progress itself in comparison with radioengineering of any
kind and control systems has got slow evolutional rate. Each achievement before wide
industrial inculcation goes through the long term completing and check-up including
duration test. Sometimes it takes years.
It stipulates some inertia, kind of stagnation in training curricula of
MET (E). Actually it is impossible to guide, at least exclusively, to the modern ship
power technics students which will deal with the maintenance of equipment installed on
board of a ship 15...20 years ago providing its efficiency, reliability and ecology in
accordance with up-to-date demands. This dramatic idea is one of the major points of the
paper.
The subject of the problem is determined, first of all, by detailed
analyses of world merchant navy and propulsive installations, their quantitative,
qualitative and age composition.
Some quantitative data of last 10...12 years are presented in the
tables No1, No2
In 1994 Greece became the first naval power in the world (3020 ships of
the total DWT). Average age of Greek navy of 1994 was 19 years, it is more than average
world navy's age (16 years). Merchant navy of Japan (the second place) accounts 13 percent
of world marine tonnage.
The world general cargo ships tonnage is retained firmly at the level
more than 80 mln.t, while the total capacity of container ships increased more than twice
as much for last ten years. One may say that at present time all shipping routs are
provided with corresponding port facilities for containerisation depends on the rate of
international trade expansion. Container ship navy is replenished with large vessels: in
1994 there were 31 vessels of 4000 and more units container capacity. Four hundreds
container terminals are enlarged and modernized in particular of Far East and south-east
Asia.
Bulk carriers evolve actively. In 1994 there were 4590 bulk carriers
with total DWT 217 mln. t and 245 combined ships (28 mln. t DWT).
