The strength of transversal structure of the ship has a great effect on the safety of ship. Shipswill experience conditions that affect the strength of the ships structure. A deck-container ships are the ships that all container are loaded on deck such as MV. Khendaga Nusantara series ships. The transversal strength of the ships is loaded mainly by the weight of cargolaying on deck.. This research aims to determine the transverse strength of a deck-container ship due to the all container loads on deck. The research was done by usingfinite element method throughmodeling transverse ship structure, the simulation is conducted by varying the amount and lay-out of containers on dec). The loads appliedto the model are side loads, bottomloads, and deck loads in according to BKI rules. The results shows that the stress that occurred in the web frame was 140,63 N/mm2due to the placement of the entire container on the deck(full loading). For ship structure response, a deformation of 2,86 mm occurred in the web frame area at maximum loading. Stress ratio that occurs in all ship’s structuredoes not exceed 1 in other words the working stress does not exceed the allowedstress according to BKI rules.

Margin plate is a part of bottom construction that joint the floor and frame construction of the ship, so the inner bottom plate will be installed cut off on the margin plate. Lately the bottom construction of the ship tends not to use the margin plate. The ship is currently built with an inner bottom plate continuously from the left side to the right side of the ship.This study aims to determine the transversal and longitudinal strength ratio of ships with and without margin plate. The  analysis was carried out by using Finite Element Method so-called ANSYSTM. The result shows if the loadvariatied 0.2 x maximum load on the calculation of the transverse strength of the ship, the stress value on the ship model with a margin plate was 9.6242 (N/mm2) and on the ship model without margin plate was 8.4739 (N/mm2) under conditions 100%. The results of the comparison due to bottom load averaged 15.82%. The difference in stress due to the effect of deck loads was an average of 13.49% while the effect of side loads was on average 8.74%. The longitudinal strength of the ship was also a varied of every increase of 0.2 x maximum moment with a review point of meeting between bottom plate and bilga plate for the ship model without margin plates using the Multi Point Constraint (MPC) method looking for results in sagging conditions of 12,443 (N / mm2) and the hogging condition was -11.045 (N / mm2) at 100% x maximum moment load conditions. So that  the ship model with a margin plate sagging condition was 23,189 (N / mm2) and hagging condition was  -20,585 (N / mm2). The results showed the stress that occurred in the ship model without using margin plate was better to withstand the transverse and longitudinal strength of the ship compared to the ship model with the margin plate.