With the Integrated Project "INTERSHIP" EuroYards intend to supply a significant contribution to the goals of the European Maritime Sector, as described in the Project "LeaderSHIP 2015" by CESA, the European Shipbuilders Association. The following objectives will be addressed:

• Increasing significantly the competitiveness of European cruise and ferry shipbuilders:
  
  The following goals are set to achieve this objective:

  • achieve a worldwide market share of
  • 95% in cruise vessels and
  • 60% in RoPax vessels and ferries (90% of inner EU traffic).

  
  The IP will thus contribute to meeting the forecasted increase of passenger transport by 24% by 2010 and to improve environmentally friendly and efficient inner European maritime trans-port.

• Development of better products, considering the entire life cycle of complex ships:
  
  The goals defined to meet this objective are:
  
  • obtain optimum design solutions and product quality considering environment, safety, comfort and efficiency;
    
  • reduce emissions from the ships concerned by 25 - 50%
    
  • reduce accidents with the ships concerned to virtually ”0”
    
  • reduce the life cycle cost of the ships concerned by 30 - 40%.
    
  
  The IP will contribute to achieve this goals by:
  
  • better exploitation of leading edge knowledge in design and production
    
  • development of optimisation criteria, tools and methods covering the entire life cycle
    
  • integrating shipyards, suppliers, owners and classification societies in the development process of modern ships
    


• Drastical reduction of building and development cost as well as time-to-market of innovative solutions:
  
  The following goals are set to achieve this objective:
  
  • reduce development and building cost by 25-30%
    
  • reduce lead time and time-to-market by 20-30%
    
  
  The IP will contribute to reach this goals by:
  
  • improving vertical integration between shipyards, owners, suppliers and classification societies
    
  • enhancing horizontal integration by better cooperation between the EU shipbuilders
    
  • supporting modularisation and standardisation as a key for larger specialisation
    
  • demonstrating feasibility and prepare the field for a wide application of project results.