A solution approach for decision-making on vessel fleet sustainability focusing on alternative fuels in a life-cycle basis

International Maritime Organization (IMO) has launched a set of different regulatory frameworks focusing on maritime pollution prevention mechanisms and practicing different solution approaches. A multi-dimensional life-cycle analysis on vessels and maritime fuels (fossil & alternative low carbon fuels) can make an important contribution to the IMO's long-term carbon neutrality target for 2050. A typical vessel's operational profile contributes on approx. 80% of greenhouse gas emissions and 50% of total costs respectively during its lifetime. Therefore, the investigation of ships' operational benchmarks following a life-cycle analysis approach could create suitable decision-making support tools for different optimization problems regarding alternative green fuels. This paper proposes a solution approach to evaluate current vessel fleet operational benchmarks for different ship categories and provide a decision-making support mechanism to tackle important operational problems during ship's lifetime. The proposed approach contains an evaluation mechanism to determine the suitable economic and environmental key performance indicators necessary to properly evaluate the multi-dimensional sustainability of the examined case studies with respect to the IMO (MARPOL) environmental regulations.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2024.02.011
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146524000644
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  • © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Akac, Attila
  • Anagnostopoulou, Afroditi
• Conference:
  • 25th Euro Working Group on Transportation Meeting (EWGT 2023)
  • Location: Santander , Spain
  • Date: 2023-9-6 to 2023-9-8
• Publication Date: 2024

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 79-86
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Procedia
  • Volume: 78
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 2352-1465
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/23521465/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternate fuels; Case studies; Decision making; Environmental policy; Greenhouse gases; Life cycle analysis; Marine transportation; Pollution control; Sustainable transportation
• Identifier Terms: International Maritime Organization; MARPOL
• Subject Areas: Environment; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01919221
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 21 2024 11:49AM