Kul-24.

4110 Ship Project A

Course project
General Arrangement
Post-Panamax cruise ship with two-floor loft cabins

Aleksi Airinen, 81809S

Andres Rene Kurmiste, 399915
Rainer Klein, 399779

Aalto 2014
Contents

1 General arrangement .......................................................................................................................... 3

2 Regulatory & safety requirements ..................................................................................................... 3

Fire safety.............................................................................................................................................. 4

Evacuation ............................................................................................................................................. 4

3 Tank arrangement .............................................................................................................................. 4

Fuel tanks .............................................................................................................................................. 4

Fresh water tanks .................................................................................................................................. 4

Black and grey water tanks ................................................................................................................... 4

Tanks for other system .......................................................................................................................... 5

4 Machinery arrangement ..................................................................................................................... 5

Works Cited .............................................................................................................................................. 6

Appendix 1 ................................................................................................................................................ 7

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1 General arrangement
The ship requires cabins to accommodate guest and crew. Other requirements have to do with living on
a ship, which would be the following: restaurants, entertainment (casino, theater, spa, gym etc),
ventilation and climate control, clean flowing water, waste disposal, safety systems such as liferafts and
evacuation procedures, generators for electricity.
Following the pattern and safety rules of most cruise ships, the general arrangement was set as follows
in the deck plan images (Appendix 1). It can be observed that the crew spaces and facilities must be
well separated from the passenger’s facilities. The position of bulkheads which sets the fire zones are
also crucial. They must divide every 48 m of length of the ship (IMO rules). The life boats were
designed to be fit in the deck 6, since they must not be positioned over 15 m of height.
For the public spaces, it was decided as priority to have a wide variety of restaurants, a big casino,
some sports facilities and also some high-tech entertainment options. As observed in previously
research, the age average and interests of the luxury Asian traveler is different from the “regular”
American or European, since they are younger and more active in casino, shopping and sports activities
The concept cabin we have made for two loft cabins is shown in Figure 1. The conceptual loft cabins
are quite large about 20x20 m, thus we have to either make smaller cabins or lower the amount of
passenger form 3300 to a about 1000, as at the moment such large cabins cannot fit so many
passengers.

Figure 1. Two floor loft cabin conceptual design

2 Regulatory & safety requirements

As a large luxury cruise ship with thousands of people onboard, safety is a major issue. This combined
with our aim for the luxury market with superior passenger comfort sets us our biggest guidelines when
it comes to general arrangement of the ship. Keeping all this in mind, our goal is for the general
arrangement to be functional and serve the customers in the best possible way. The starting point is the

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ship’s NAPA model. We must consider bulkheads and pillars when deciding on large areas. As a
reference we have some of the largest cruise ships in the world today, such as Queen Mary II and the
Oasis class.
The two biggest guidelines and requirements that guide our general arrangement are the SOLAS
regulations (Convention for Safety of Life at Sea) [1] and classification society rules (DNV) [2]. Of
these SOLAS regulates such things as fire protection, evacuation, etc. DNV is more concerned with the
broader general arrangement of the ship.

Fire safety
Fire safety is regulated also by SOLAS, although it gets into very detail about the fire safety
requirements. As a result we only visually applied the rule that no fire zone should be longer than 48 m
without special consideration.

Evacuation
SOLAS rules gives regulations on the evacuation routes and especially how should be staircases be
built which are between decks. From regulations the minimum staircase width is 900 mm if two people
are occupying the same stairway at the same time. Thus we selected the width of each staircase at least
1000 mm.

3 Tank arrangement
Fuel tanks
The fuel tanks need to be of sufficient capacity to cover all fuel requirements on the longest journey at
100% load. At 173 g/kWh and 100 MW the ship requires 17.46 m3/h of HFO. The longest distance is
6100 km from Kuala Lumpur to Kobe. At cruise speed this trip takes 150 hours. Thus the ships should
have HFO capacity of 2619 m3, which we round up to 2800 m3 for safety considerations.
Settling tanks need to be able of providing fuel for 24 hours operation at maximum fuel consumption.
For our ship this amounts to 419 m3, which again we round up to 470 m3.
Day tanks are required to hold fuel for 8 hours of sailing at full power. This strictly amounts to 140 m3,
which we round up to 160 m3.

Fresh water tanks

The fresh water consumption per person is assumed to be 300 liters/day. Additionally steam boilers use
fresh water yet the total steam required is at this point not known. Assuming that the ship is in full use
with 5000 people on board, the passenger and crew water usage will be 1.5 million liters/day. The fresh
water tanks in our ship need to be sufficient for 7 days for a total of 10500 m3. We assumed the boiler
usage to double this number bringing the total fresh water tank capacity to 20000 m3.

Black and grey water tanks

Black and gray water holding tank capacities are calculated based on average generated sewage and
grey water per person in day. The average black water generated per person in one day is

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approximately 32 liters per person (EPA, 2008). Therefore, black water holding tank capacity should
be 1120 m3.
The grey wastewater generated per person in one day is approximately 255 liters per person (EPA,
2008). Grey water holding tank capacity should be 9000 m3.

Tanks for other system

Minor tanks, for which calculations have not been yet performed are lubricating oil tank, sludge tank
for lubricating oil system and some minor fuel tank for the boilers.

4 Machinery arrangement
In the following list are described the main machinery rooms and the aspects, which are taken into
consideration of their arrangement:
• The main engines are located mid-ship for better weight distribution and in two separate rooms
to allow the ship to carry on even in case of fire or flooding.
• Main drive and switchboard rooms are located as close as possible to generators, as the cables
between those three are the biggest and with highest voltages and therefore tried to keep short.
• Water treatment and heating are placed close to each other to limit the piping length, which lowers
the accident and failure possibilities and gives extra space.
• Fuel separating and feeding unit are placed as close to engines as possible to decrease piping
length
• Requirements and recommendations set by DNV rules (Det Norske Veritas, 2011) and their
interpretation of SOLAS (Det Norske Veritas, 2011).

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Works Cited
Det Norske Veritas. (2011). DNV Statutory Interpretations.
Det Norske Veritas. (2011). Newbuildings Machinery and Systems - Main Class.
EPA. (2008). Cruise Ship Discharge Assessment Report. Retrieved 4 13, 2014, from
http://water.epa.gov/polwaste/vwd/disch_assess.cfm
SOLAS. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.imo.org/About/Conventions/ListOfConventions/Pages/International-
Convention-for-the-Safety-of-Life-at-Sea-%28SOLAS%29,-1974.aspx
Veritas, D. N. (2014, January). Retrieved from Rules for Classification of Ships:
https://exchange.dnv.com/publishing/rulesship/2014-01/

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Appendix 1
General arrangement drawings