Urgent: Need Lines Plan for Bulk Carrier (55-65K DWT) for University Project

[Puteri]

Hi everyone,
I'm a university student currently working on a project involving the design of a bulk carrier within the 55,000-65,000 DWT range. As part of our assignment, we need to find an existing lines plan of a bulk carrier that has already been built within this range. However, after extensive searching, we couldn't find any publicly available plans online.

I understand that detailed ship plans are often proprietary, but if anyone has access to a general arrangement plan, lines plan, or any reference materials that could help us develop our design, I would greatly appreciate it. We are using this strictly for educational purposes, not for commercial use.

If direct access to a lines plan isn't possible, any guidance on where to find similar open-source designs or who we might contact for permission to access such data would be really helpful.

Looking forward to any advice or resources you can share! Thanks in advance.

 

[bajansailor]

Welcome to the Forum Puteri.

I was a college student of naval architecture 40 years ago, and back then I was also looking for basis ships to use for reference for my design project then - it was much smaller than your project, being only 2,000 tonnes dwt, but the general principles of design are still the same.

There was no internet then, so I wrote letters (lots of letters) and mailed them to shipping companies, asking if they could let me have any information about their ships - and I was very pleasantly surprised to often get very helpful replies from companies who sent me useful information like blueprint general arrangement plans.
It might be worth your while to email some Managers of bulk carriers, and tell them about your project, rather than just looking for information posted on line?
I am now working as a marine surveyor, and I have occasionally had survey assignments on board bulk carriers in the SMT fleet - you could try emailing them perhaps? I have always found them to be very helpful and co-operative.
SMT Shipping https://www.smtshipping.com/

 

[gonzo]

I googled "bulk carrier hull lines plan" and got hundreds of hits
Bulk carrier EYLUL K https://www.wartsila.com/encyclopedia/term/bulk-carrier-eylul-k
Learn Ship Design: Bulk Carriers (A Detailed Synopsis) https://lshipdesign.blogspot.com/2015/04/bulk-carriers-detailed-synopsis.html
Google Search https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=91bf622baf105a74&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS987US987&q=Bulk+carrier+hull+lines+plan+example&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiEysmBl6qMAxWi78kDHXdZDfIQ1QJ6BAgmEAE&biw=1920&bih=919&dpr=1

 

[Tops]

And if you take @gonzo 's search and add 55k DWT and remove example ... one of the first images is from the firm SMT that @bajansailor mentioned. Click one that image and there is their fleet.