The Effect of Trim on Stability and Seakeeping of Tanker, Container, and Bulk Carrier

Abstract Stability and seakeeping are important factor that must be owned by a ship because it related to the safety of the ship, meanwhile the trim also affecting the ship operation. The study has a purpose to find out the impact of the trim to the stability and seaworthiness of the ship. The analysis is carried out on 3 types of ships, namely tankers, containers, and bulk carriers. A.N. Krylov method is using to calculate the stability, whereas the seakeeping is analysed by strip theory. Both of the results for stability and seakeeping are calculated by Maxsurf Software. Stability and seakeeping analysis was carried out when the ship is in even keel condition, trim by bow, and trim by stern in maximum and extreme condition. The results shows that the trim by stern of the ship can increased the ship stability rate by 0.5~5.4%. While the effect of trim on ship motions varies due to the differences characteristics of each ship. The results shows due to the trim impact by values of RAO’s, which some of ship motions have increased meanwhile for some ship motion have decreased of ship motion condition.