Analysis of factors affecting the ship's maintenance service

Ship's maintenance is considered as one of the factors that have a vital influence on the competitiveness of shipowners on the shipping market. Therefore, every shipping company aims at reducing maintenance costs to the lowest acceptable level, which, in this sense, represents the lowest total amount of the maintenance costs, comprising the maintenance service costs and the stoppage costs that guarantee the restoring and keeping up of the prescribed technical safety regulations as well as those related to the safety of navigation. In addition, the paper aims at analyzing the influence of two very important factors -- the type of activities (operation area) and the ship's age, since they determine, in large part, the adequacy of a particular type of maintenance required..