th HMSV Symposium will be held in Naples in

May 2011. As in previous years, the Symposium will

provide an opportunity to present and discuss developments

in the design, construction and operation

of high speed marine vessels.

The market has now recognized that each type of

high speed marine vessel has its own optimum

maximum speed, and that fast sea transportation

must consider many other factors than speed, such

as cargo capacity, economy of operation, passenger

comfort and safety, environmental friendliness.

Vessels such as large ferries, mega yachts and

sailing boats may never achieve speeds of, say, 40

knots, but an increase in speed, together with consideration

of other factors, may provide significant added

value, although such increase of speed must not

conflict with the requirement for passenger comfort.

For such vessels the increase of speed must not collide

with passenger comfort.

Papers are invited on all aspect of the development,

design, construction and operation of high speed

vessels, particularly those relating to this wider interpretation

of ‘high speed vessels’.

th HSMV Symposium will be held in the year

which celebrates the 200

th anniversary of the founding

of the ‘Scuola di Ingegneria’ of the university of

Naples Federico

II. Although the university itself was

founded in 1224, it was not until 1811 that engineering

was taught at the university.