Hull Design Service

The PATHPLUS Hull Design service is part of our comprehensive design outsourcing service, We offer a full spectrum of services, including all basic and detailed design and calculations, detailed drawings for authorities’ approval, and seamless communication with owners and classification societies, ensuring a smooth and successful design-to-construction process. The only input we need is an outline SPEC, and occasionally an hull surface for some special vessels.

Structural Enhancement and Optimization
  • Hull Design Experiences

    All the PATHPLUS Naval Architects and Structural Design member have more than 20 years in-average hull design experiences in Korean Top Shipyards.

  • Tailored Services

    We Elevate the reliability of the vessel's structural design with our tailored services, incorporating structural optimization to meet the highest standards of safety and performance.

  • Low-cost Construction

    From 82K Panamax bulkers to 308K VLCCs, our ships achieve the lowest structural weight on the globe while maintaining a minimum number of structural pieces to enhance fast and low-cost construction.

CUSTOMER
SUCCESS STORIES
THE MR TANKER
THE MR TANKER

In 2019, One of our Shipyard client is seeking for a reliable , low-cost and fast-to-build 50K MR tanker design.


The PATHPLUS sent a team from Korea to China, design and optimized the ship from scratch, as a result , we achieved:


1. Structural Weight Reduced by 750 ton/ship

2. # of Structural Pieces Reduced by 40%/ship

3. Main Hull construction period Reduced by 3 weeks


After our hull optimization service, the shipyard secured 20- ships with the PATHPLUS-design


THE 115K Aframax TANKER
THE 115K Aframax TANKER

In 2020, The shipbuilding market hit historical low, for enhance overall competitiveness, a shipyard client contacted us to provide tailor hull design services of an Aframax tanker, during the dedicated 8 months collaboration, we achieved 


1. Structural Weight Reduced by 1900 ton//ship

2. # of Structural Pieces Reduced by 30%/ship

3. Main Hull construction period Reduced by 3 weeks


After our hull optimization service, the shipyard secured 10 - ships with the PATHPLUS-design


THE 158K Suezmax TANKER
THE 158K Suezmax TANKER

In 2021, we provide our hull outsourcing service to one of biggest shipyard client in China, we only design and optimized the Cargo Hold region of the ship, and we achieved: 


1. Structural Weight Reduced by 1500 ton/ship

2. # of Structural Pieces Reduced by 30% of CH region//ship

3. Main Hull construction period Reduced by - weeks


After our hull optimization service, the shipyard secured 3 - ships with the PATHPLUS-design


THE 88.8K Bulk Carrier
THE 88.8K Bulk Carrier

In 2022, we provide our full design package for one of the best-quality bulker shipbuilder in China, Our design include the Hull Lines, Propeller and PBCF, the GA and MA design, the Hull Structure and all outfitting designs. During the project, we achieved: 


1. Structural Weight Reduced by 900 ton/ship

2. # of Structural Pieces Reduced by 45%/ship

3. Main Hull construction period Reduced by 3 weeks


After our hull optimization service, the shipyard secured 3 - ships with the PATHPLUS-design


THE 82.3K Bulk Carrier
THE 82.3K Bulk Carrier

In 2023, as most of the shipyards started to noticed that the number of structural pieces contributes extremely critical factor in the overall cost of ship construction, as it determines most of the fabrication time lose, welding, NDT and construction worker’s human cost, several of the Chinese shipyard started to use our service to simplify the hull design, by using the PATHPLUS hull design service, we achieved: 


1. Structural Weight Reduced by 300 ton/ship

2. # of Structural Pieces Reduced by 40%/ship

3. Main Hull construction period Reduced by - weeks


A NEW Perspective
PATHPLUS In-house Structural design CAD offered for Non-Commercial use
In 2020, as we truly believe that the industry needs an specialize hull structural optimization software for a better future, we decided to release our extraordinary In-House Hull Design CAD for the industry for Non-Commercial Use. (Non-China Area Only)
The CAD platform named PATHPLUS BASIC or PPBasic,with the functions:

1. Full 3D design and optimization functionality for Curved Structure and Planar Structure incl. all parametric structural Detail used in major shipyard.

2. Embedded 2D-AutoDraft Module completely replaced all other CAD tools in hull design process.

3. CAD Model to Finite Element Model in One Click

4. Interfaces with Class Rule Calc S/W, OCX, AVEVA Marine SCH Interface