This thesis gives guidance about the importance of dry docking and focuses on the benefits and procedures. It is targeting shipping companies and maritime future chief engineers. With the help of data collected from articles, maritime experts, and organization websites that deal or manufacture equipment, and machinery related to maritime industries in case of maintenance.

This thesis gave clear guidance or understanding to shipping companies and other vessel holders as to why they should consider taking dry docking as one of the important tasks in their company structures and considering the marine environmental structure and the life cycle prolonging of the ship and avoiding unnecessary financial damage in their prospective companies. Data was collected from sources such as organization websites, interviews, and articles based on the importance of dry docking. Information was collected to contribute to and support the thesis.

This thesis emphasizes the importance of dry docking, and it focuses on the benefits and Reasons for dry docking, Economic strategies, why ships have to be docked, different types of dry docks, environmental factors, and the performance and efficiency of vessels after dry dock and factors to consider when scheduling for dry docking and regulations based on SOLAS.

Additionally, Reasons for dry docking were the main priority in this thesis as it stipulates the main purpose of why ships in the maritime industries must adhere to the mandatory dry-docking by the cargo ship safety construction rules amended in 1974 by SOLAS.