Shipshape Marine Consultants (SMC), a project by ABOJEB and Lodic AS of Norway, is a team of professional naval architects with expertise on design and stability of marine vessels.

Aside from consultancy services, the team distributes SHIPSHAPE – a ship design program and loading instrument developed by Lodic AS.

SHIPSHAPE

The SHIPSHAPE system was initially developed as an in-house tool for research and development, and educational use at the Norwegian Institute of Technology / Norwegian Maritime Technology Research Institute (MARINTEK) in Trondheim, Norway.

The high-tech heritage and demand of the institution has had a major bearing on the system ever since, with the continuous addition of new features and advanced functions. It is now enhanced with special functions for offshore vessels, barge grounding / submersion calculations, fishing vessels, and others. The system is also popular with students and educational institutions due to the intuitive use and configuration, as well as powerful and flexible functions.

SHIPSHAPE is ideal for stability calculations, early design / feasibility studies where its parametric design features will enable swift changes in the vessel configuration and allow for the proper evaluation of the relevant design alternatives. It is used to provide geometry files, drawings, calculations and documentation for Marine Authority or Class approval.

In extreme cases, it is used by salvage masters faced with a vessel that has run on a shoal and sustained severe damages to the foreship: Will the vessel float when pulled off the shoal, how will its floating position be, what measures should be taken to minimize stresses and prevent her from breaking? For all the cases above, the SHIPSHAPE Ship Design program will be able to provide answers and advice to the user.