MARAD Guideline
Specifications for Merchant Ship Construction and Executive
Summary, 1995
GUIDELINE
SPECIFICATIONS AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
These 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.
These documents
replace all previous editions of the Maritime Administration
Standard Specifications for Merchant Ship Construction.
Each contain a total of 73 sections; the first 29
sections
comprise the Hull Sections, and the remaining 44 sections
comprise the Machinery Sections.
The
Executive Summary contains 132 pages, and the
Guideline Specifications
contains 461 pages. Both
documents can be downloaded
by following these steps:
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double click on the document name you want;
save it to your file or your disk;
click on the "Start" button (bottom left corner of computer
screen) and click on
"Run";
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click on the "Browse" button to locate where the document has
been saved
and click "Open";
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click "OK" and files will "explode"
from the "zipped" format;
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open Microsoft Word and go to where you
saved the document (each Section
of the document is a separate file, i.e.,
Execsumm.0001, Sect0001, etc.); and
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proceed by opening any section you need.
You may also order these
documents in hard copy by contacting
Sharon Nielsen
via e-mail at
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