Tools: Ship economics

Ship economics

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Editorial history

Created 01/06/2015 by CSG

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Context

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Ship burden: data from English Admiralty CCourt records

UP LOAD IMAGE

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Capital costs

Hull: materials

• Timber
• Metal

- Quantities?
- Cost/measure?
- Material quantities per ton burden built?

Hull: labour

• Master ship carpenter
• Ships carpenters
• Other labour

- Man/hours?
- Cost per man/hour?
- Rule of thumb labour input costs per ton burden built?
- Economies of scale?

Fitting out: materials

• Rigging
• Pulleys
• Metal fittings
• Sails

Fitting out: labour

• Ropemakers
• Sail makers
• Pulley makers
• Other

Operating costs

Wear & tear

• Wear and tear costs (as estimated by owners and/or ship masters)
• Maintenance costs (as estimated by owners and/or ship masters, or as evidenced in ship account books)

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Freight lease costs

• Monthly costs as agreed in Charter Party

Crew labour costs

• Monthly wages
•  ?Additional payments

Victualling costs

• Food and drink

Port costs

• Entry and Exit charges at port
• Other port related charges