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Preliminary screening tool

Can your vessel carry more deadweight?

More draft means more deadweight. This quick selector gives an initial engineering direction only — final suitability depends on freeboard, intact/grain/damage stability, structural strength, openings, load line items, loading instrument limits and class/flag requirements.

For older vessels, damage stability applicability may depend on keel laying date and the applicable SOLAS regime. Normship can prepare a step-by-step approval route before full engineering starts.

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