Category: Ship Design
NAPA Damage Stability Online Training (November’s Special – 50% Off)
Dive into the World of NAPA Damage Stability, online! Interested in learning more about deterministic or probabilistic damage stability, criteria or heeling moments definitions? Join the course now and get all the knowledge needed to perform damage stability calculations. The training course is intended for people with existing basic NAPA knowledge. Schedule and contents Deterministic […]
Read ArticleApril 9, 2024
[Webinar] Time to learn: Second Generation Intact Stability Criteria
Join us for a webinar designed to prepare maritime professionals for the Second Generation Intact Stability Criteria (SGISC). 📅 April 26, Friday 🕒 09.00 – 09.45 UK / 10.00 – 10.45 Central Europe / 11.00 – 11.45 Eastern Europe The long-running theme in IMO to improve the intact stability criteria reached its milestone when the […]
Read ArticleApril 2, 2024
Bluetech Finland: Leveraging 3D models for superior efficiency in ship design
Bluetech Finland, a ship design and engineering firm, outshines in adapting swiftly to the evolving demands of ship design, ensuring high-quality outcomes for their clients. NAPA’s design solutions, including stability calculations and detailed design capabilities with the advanced 3D model, have been crucial tools for their daily work since the company’s start. These tools play […]
Read ArticleMarch 25, 2024
3D-powered efficiency – how VARD delivered a ship design in just 10 weeks
Teams at VARD Design & Engineering were faced with a major challenge: could they slash the typical structural design time by a third, and go from contract signing to class package in 10 weeks? Equipped with NAPA’s 3D based tools, they rose to the occasion by working smartly, creatively, and collaboratively. Here’s how they achieved […]
Read ArticleFebruary 14, 2024
KYMA: using 3D models to power yacht design innovation
The world of yacht design is one of constant innovation. Evolving customer demands are continuously prompting naval architects and structural engineers to push the boundaries of creativity, while ensuring safety and a smooth, efficient design process. Here’s how, using NAPA tools, KYMA is harnessing the latest advances in 3D ship design to turn this challenge […]
Read ArticleJanuary 23, 2024
NAPA Release 2023.2
The second NAPA Release of 2023 is now live! All the changes in the software can be found in the NAPA Release Notes 2023.2 document, which is available in NAPAnet, with the installation packages. NAPA Release 2023.2 highlights: Faster creation and management of loading conditions Many user-requested improvements for intact and damage stability analysis Towards […]
Read ArticleJanuary 19, 2024
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, NAPA and CADMATIC join forces to develop digital shipyard
Partnership between software providers and the world’s largest shipyard will digitalize and streamline the ship design and construction process, enabling the fast-paced innovation needed to support shipping’s decarbonization transition. Ulsan, Helsinki and Turku, 18 January 2024 – HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world’s largest shipyard, has announced a joint development project (JDP) with NAPA and […]
Read ArticleJanuary 18, 2024
How to model your alternative fuels future
Want to know what your fleet’s alternative fuels future will look like? You’re not alone. As new energy sources make their entry on global fleets, shipping is craving certainty. But there is no need for fortune-telling – instead, simulation tools can reveal what to expect in terms of new ship designs, operations, and costs, for […]
Read ArticleJanuary 16, 2024
SDARI, BV and NAPA joint project validates benefits of 3D model-based classification approvals
20 November 2023: Bureau Veritas (BV), a world leader in testing, inspection and certification, the Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute (SDARI) and NAPA, a global provider of maritime software and data services, have completed the first phase of a Joint Development Project (JDP) to enable 3D model-based approvals for the classification of ships. […]
Read ArticleNovember 21, 2023
Taking wind propulsion to the next level with voyage optimization
A joint simulation project between NAPA, Norsepower, and Sumitomo Heavy Industries Marine & Engineering has validated the emissions reduction potential of combining wind propulsion with voyage optimization. The results so far are impressive, confirming that the technologies can deliver up to 28% emissions reductions on average – but we are not stopping there. Phase two of […]
Read ArticleJuly 31, 2023