Cost assessment of environmental regulation and options for marine operators

Schinas, Orestis; Stefanakos, Christos

doi:10.1016/j.trc.2012.05.002

Cited by 75 publications

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“…Other alternatives include natural gas-powered propulsion (LNG) and the installation of exhaust cleaning systems for SOx (scrubbers). Much recent research has been devoted to choosing the optimal compliance strategy (see, for instance, Lindstad et al, 2015;Yang et al, 2012;Balland et al, 2012Balland et al, , 2013Brynolf et al, 2014;Jiang et al, 2014, Schinas andStefanakos, 2012). In these studies, the alternatives are commonly assessed according to a number of criteria such as investment and operating costs, reliability and maintenance requirements.…”

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The impact of regional environmental regulations on empirical vessel speeds

Ådland

Fonnes

Jia³

et al. 2017

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

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Economic theory suggests that the use of more expensive low-sulphur fuel within an Emission Control Area (ECA) should result in lower vessel speeds. The objective of this paper is to investigate empirically, for the first time, whether the introduction of an ECA affects vessel speeds. We utilize a dataset of observed vessel speeds derived from the Automated Information System (AIS) for nearly 7,000 ECA boundary crossings over a three-year period. Our results suggest that introducing stricter sulphur regulations inside the North Sea ECA from 1. January 2015 did not affect vessel speeds once changes in macroeconomic conditions are accounted for.

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The impact of regional environmental regulations on empirical vessel speeds

Ådland

Fonnes

Jia³

et al. 2017

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

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“…Schinas and Stefanakos (2012) propose a stochastic programming model for determining the mix of a fleet of ships operating in ECAs. The recent special issue in Transportation Research Part D (Cullinane and Bergqvist, 2014) focuses more on the technical options to comply with the ECA regulations.…”

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Maritime routing and speed optimization with emission control areas

Fagerholt

Gausel

Rakke

et al. 2015

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

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Strict limits on the maximum sulphur content in fuel used by ships have recently been imposed in some Emission Control Areas (ECAs). In order to comply with these regulations many ship operators will switch to more expensive low-sulphur fuel when sailing inside ECAs. Since they are concerned about minimizing their costs, it is likely that speed and routing decisions will change because of this. In this paper, we develop an optimization model to be applied by ship operators for determining sailing paths and speeds that minimize operating costs for a ship along a given sequence of ports. We perform a computational study on a number of realistic shipping routes in order to evaluate possible impacts on sailing paths and speeds, and hence fuel consumption and costs, from the ECA regulations. Moreover, the aim is to examine the implications for the society with regards to environmental effects. Comparisons of cases show that a likely effect of the regulations is that ship operators will often choose to sail longer distances to avoid sailing time within ECAs. Another effect is that they will sail at lower speeds within and higher speeds outside the ECAs in order to use less of the more expensive fuel. On some shipping routes, this might give a considerable increase in the total amount of fuel consumed and the CO 2 emissions.

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“…Schinas and Stefanakos [52] wisely caution to avoid making planning in the marine sector based on statistical assumptions or historical data. In this study we have utilized the historical data of one mill to a certain extent.…”

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Estimated impacts of the sulphur directive on the Nordic industry

Hämäläinen

2015

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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Cost assessment of environmental regulation and options for marine operators

Cited by 75 publications

References 21 publications

The impact of regional environmental regulations on empirical vessel speeds

The impact of regional environmental regulations on empirical vessel speeds

Maritime routing and speed optimization with emission control areas

Estimated impacts of the sulphur directive on the Nordic industry

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