Current issues and compromises

Designers of roro ferries are faced with a choice of maximising lane metres or minimising risk of damage to the sideshell through contact with harbour walls. Designs to maximise lane metres have flat sides above the fenders; those minimising risk of damage to the sideshell have sides above the fenders ...

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