ShipRight procedures are a comprehensive system of procedures aimed at ensuring high standards of safety, quality and reliability at the design stage and during construction. These procedures also extend, via Linked Supporting Services, to ensure that these standards are met through the operational lifetime of the ship.
Structural Design Assessment (SDA) procedures
These procedures are mandatory, in addition to plan approval requirements, for new LNG and LPG carriers, new container ships and passenger ships depending on size and configuration, and other new ships where the ship type, size and structural arrangement demand. This includes new oil tanker and bulk carrier configurations over 190 metres in length for which the Common Structural Rules are not applicable. In this procedure, the adequacy of primary hull structural members is assessed by comparing applied stress levels and buckling capabilities with permissible values. The structural assessment is carried out using a three dimensional finite element model of a representative length of the ship's hull. This is supplemented by more detailed finite element models where considered necessary to investigate areas of localised higher stress.
| ShipRight procedures | Date |
| Structural Design Assessment Overview | May, 2004 |
| Structural Design Assessment Overview Changes Incorporated | May, 2004 |
| Global Design Loads of Container Ships and Other Ships Prone to Whipping and Springing | January, 2024 |
| Primary Hull and Cargo Tank Structure of Liquefied Gas Carriers Fitted with Type B Independent Tanks Primarily Constructed of Plane Surfaces | July, 2020 |
| Primary Hull and Cargo Tank Structure of Type A Tank Liquefied Gas Carriers | Decenber, 2023 |
| Primary Hull and Cargo Tank Supporting Structure of Type C Liquefied Gas Carriers | January, 2024 |
| Primary Structure of Bulk Carriers | December, 2022 |
| Primary Structure of Container Ships | July, 2024 |
| Primary Structure of Naval Ships under Category NS2 | June, 2021 |
| Primary Structure of Passenger Ships | August, 2019 |
| Primary Structure of Ro-Ro Ships | September, 2021 |
| Primary Structure of Tankers | Changes incorporated in May, 2004 |
| Primary Structure of Tankers | May, 2004 |
| Primary Structure of Type B Spherical Tank LNG Ships | Changes incorporated in May, 2004 |
| Primary Structure of Type B Spherical Tank LNG Ships | May, 2004 |
| Procedure for Type A Tank Liquefied Gas Carriers, Notice 1 | May, 2019 |
| Procedure for Type A Tank Liquefied Gas Carriers, Notice 2 | May, 2019 |
| Procedure for Primary Structure of Ore Carriers | July, 2019 |
| Procedure for Membrane Tank LNG Ships | March, 2025 |
| Notice 1 to SDA Procedure for Membrane Tank LNG Ships | August, 2021 |
| Sloshing Loads and Scantling Assessment | Changes incorporated in May 2004 |
| Sloshing Loads and Scantling Assessment | May, 2004 |
| Assessment of Primary Structure of Mono-Hull Yachts | July, 2024 |
| ShipRight SDA Procedure for General Cargo Ships with A Long Hold | February, 2023 |