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Paper presents results of studies on a parametric method of predicting ship building costs −− useful in the preliminary design. Conception and theoretical basis of the method arepresented, devised are also approximation formulae for estimating the building costs of theship hull, ship equipment and the power plant with propulsion system. Factors of importan-ce for the ship building costs are identified and a computational algorithm formulated. Theuseful character of the method is illustrated by examples of building cost predictions forfour different ship types designed in the Eureka project E!2772, i.e.: SINE 202 universalcontainer carrier, SINE 203 oil product tanker, SINE 204 ro-ro ship and SINE 205 river-sea ship