Aim 1

Aim 2

Aim 3

Aim 4

Νo areas/warehouses, where stocks are laid-up, including steel plates (No 1); apply “just in time”. New.

1 gantry crane, moving on rails, capable of lifting 700t. New.

The pre-fabrication of steel (No 12) stays, but the new steel plates to be heavier & larger. Old & new.

A hydrogen power station to be built, if not a nuclear fission unit! New.

Aim 5

Aim 6

Aim 7

Aim 8

The painting shop stays (no 5), but for 2 coats. New & old.

No outfitting quays (no 9-10-11); to carry-out outfitting in the building berths; the outfitting shop stays (no 8). New & old.

No building dry docks (6 & 7); the ship will be built on a number of metal platforms on rails. New.

Let the customer design & order the type & size of the vessel he/she wants & at the time which he/she needs her! New!

Aim 9

Aim 10

Aim 11

Aim 12

Build the main engines in site. New.

Produce the steel plates in site. New.

Buy locomotives. The one shown below is used by the London Underground (a battery-electric one).

New.

The shops stay (No 3 & 4), but they will be placed near the ship building. New & old.

Aim 13

Aim 14

Aim 15

Aim 16

Have fewer “blocks”. New.

Pull the ready ship on rails to the sea for her sea trials; New.

Appoint the design of the yard to a “railway network” designer… New.

Replace steel with a material cheaper, equal strong, or stronger, perhaps from the new material matters! In fact, we have seen on shore very tall buildings from glass… New.

Aim 17

Aim 18

Aim 19

Aim 20

Provide electricity to the near-by communities for the yard to be ESG… New.

Use larger, covering more space of the ship, steel plates; ask steel mills to produce as large & as heavy steel plates as they can; reduce the number of steel plates, the quantity of the electrodes, the amount of labor & the time of construction from hitherto. New.

No guest house (no 17); no yard’s manager’s house; no bungalows etc. for surveyors etc.; add: a fire brigade; a 1st aid center; an helicopter & its port; a post office; gather all people together, including yard’s administration & non-yard people (from class/owners’ etc.); no main office (no 16). New.

Oxygen & Acetylene plants (13 & 14) stay;

the training center (no 15) stays;

the assembly shop (4) stays;

New.

Aim 21

Aim 21 (continued)

Aim 21 (continued)

Aim 22

Add: a hotel run by professionals, providing all services à

àfive stars rooms for the ship-owners & their wives. New.

Add: a legal dept; a public relations dept.

New.

Add a welcome team; a complaint office etc. New.