INTEGRATED COLLABORATIVE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION OF CRUISE VESSELS, PASSENGER SHIPS AND RO-PAX

InterSHIP is a 38 million euro Integrated Project launched by the European shipbuilding industry under the initiative of Euroyards and following the LeaderSHIP 2015 recommendations.

The objectives are to significantly increase the competitiveness of European cruise, passenger ferry and RoPax shipbuilders, to develop safer and more environmentally friendly ships considering their entire life cycle, and to achieve a drastic reduction of building and development costs as well as time-to-market of innovative solutions.

InterSHIP enables shipyard engineers to develop and apply leading edge knowledge in environmental aspects, safety, comfort and cost efficiency in simultaneous engineering, thus making sure that optimum solutions can be obtained for the total life cycle of complex ships.

InterSHIP also focuses on improving vertical integration between shipyards, owners, suppliers, classification societies and horizontal cooperation between European shipyards, thus ensuring that the project results are quickly implemented for the benefit of the entire European maritime community.

The four years InterSHIP project started in November 2003.

The European Commission supports the project under its Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development with an amount of 19 million euro. The Consortium partners invest the same amount in InterSHIP.