本报告的目的是提供造船和钢铁行业实践的全球总结，为确定联合研究的潜在领域提供信息，并以此为基础，从而使美国造船商具有国际竞争力，进而增加对钢铁的需求。本报告是美国钢铁研究所造船营销任务组资助的一项研究的一部分。这是在进行了大量的探索性活动后提出的，这些活动涉及美国和欧盟之间的采访、访问和会晤。 美国钢铁业和美国造船业代表。

The purpose of the report is to provide a world wide summary of shipbuilding and steel industry practice, both to inform and to form the basis for identifying potential areas of joint research that would result in U.S. shipbuilders becoming internationally competitive, which in turn would increase the demand for steel. This report has been prepared as part of a study funded by the American Iron and Steel Institute, Shipbuilding Marketing Task Group. It was requested after substantial exploratory activity involving interviews, visits and meetings between U.S. steel industry and U.S. shipbuilding industry representatives.