The Reduction of Ship-based Emissions: Aggregated Impact on Costs and Emissions for North Europe-East Asia Liner Services

This paper investigates the aggregated impacts of future environmental policies aimed at abating atmospheric emissions from ships. These policies include the low-sulphur fuel requirements from Annex VI of MARPOL and a European market-based instrument on CO₂ emissions. Two regulatory scenarios are proposed as well as a cost model for liner services on the North Europe-East Asia trade for the period 2015 to 2025. This paper assesses the cummulated cost implications of sulphur and CO₂ policies for a typical North Europe-East Asia loop. This provides an economic assessment of the aggregated effect of sulphur and CO₂ policies at the shipping lines' level. In addition, an analysis on the indirect environmental impact of these policies is carried out. The authors show that the policy on sulphur emissions from ships may have a significant effect on CO₂ emissions. The results of this paper, both from the economic and environmental analyses, argue for a holistic approach when regulating vessel-based emissions.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSTL.2014.059571
• Record URL:
  • http://inderscience.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=28512417V47R22Q7
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/17566517
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2014 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
• Authors:
  • Doudnikoff, Marjorie
  • Gouvernal, Elisabeth
  • Lacoste, Romuald
• Publication Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 213-233
• Serial:
  • International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Limited
  • ISSN: 1756-6517
  • EISSN: 1756-6525
  • Serial URL: http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijstl

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Economic analysis; Environmental impacts; Environmental policy; Pollutants; Ships; Sulfur
• Geographic Terms: East Asia; Northern Europe
• Subject Areas: Economics; Environment; Marine Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01519271
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 24 2014 12:02PM