Economic and environmental perspectives of end-of-life ship management

Choi, Jun-Ki; Kelley, Daniel; Murphy, Sean; Thangamani, Dillip

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2015.12.007

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“…Ship demolition markets are a good example that shows the difficulty in balancing economic benefits (such as employment, incomes, and taxation) and environmental and societal effects (such as pollution, contamination of water resources, and health risks). New vessels are built, and the old ones are taken apart in areas that are ecologically vulnerable (Choi et al, 2016). Therefore, regulatory actions should be designed appropriately on the basis of full benefit and cost analyses to understand the best policy strategy.…”

Section: Limitations Of Technical Solutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decarbonizing the international shipping industry: Solutions and policy recommendations

Wan

Makhloufi

Yang

et al. 2018

Marine Pollution Bulletin

140

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Ship-source greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions could increase by up to 250% by 2050 from their 2012 levels, owing to increasing global freight volumes. Binding international legal agreements to regulate GHGs, however, are lacking as technical solutions remain expensive, and crucial industrial support is absent. In 2003, the International Maritime Organization adopted Resolution A.963 (23) to regulate shipping CO emissions via technical, operational, and market-based routes. However, progress has been slow and uncertain; there is no concrete emission reduction target or definitive action plan. Yet, a full-fledged roadmap may not even emerge until 2023. In this policy analysis, we revisit the progress of technical, operational, and market-based routes and the associated controversies. We argue that 1) a performance-based index, though good-intentioned, has loopholes affecting meaningful CO emission reductions driven by technical advancements; 2) using slow steaming to cut energy consumption stands out among all operational solutions thanks to its immediate and obvious results, but with the already slow speed in practice, this single source has limited emission reduction potential; 3) without a technology-savvy shipping industry, a market-based approach is essentially needed to address the environmental impact. To give shipping a 50:50 chance for contributing fairly and proportionately to keep global warming below 2°C, deep emission reductions should occur soon.

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Section: Limitations Of Technical Solutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decarbonizing the international shipping industry: Solutions and policy recommendations

Wan

Makhloufi

Yang

et al. 2018

Marine Pollution Bulletin

140

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“…The acquired resources undergo further utilization to become technical means, methods, states and transformations of their: creation, utilization, service, wear, power supply, liquidation of machines, use of resources, recycling, regeneration, waste storage or its total utilization (Cherrington et al, 2012;Choi et al, 2016). A model of a machine life cycle, its construction and maintenance enables description, analysis and assessment of its operation efficiency.…”

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Machinery Life Cycle Efficiency Models for their Sustainable Development

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Tomporowski

Kasner

et al. 2019

System Safety: Human - Technical Facility - Environment

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The work describes the components of efficiency in the form of energy, economic and ecological benefits and outlays in the life cycle, i.e. construction and operation of machinery, equipment and power systems, on the example of wind farms and the most important models useful in designing their construction and operation for increasing system safety in three areas: environment, technical system, and human health. Technical conditions (ideas, constructions and processes) necessary to increase the benefits and / or reduce energy, economic and ecological expenditure of the operation and the prospects for effective development of the global, European and national wind energy market are characterized. A preliminary analysis of the relations of operators, workpieces, live and artificial objects of the 2-MW wind farm environment was carried out, for the possibility of increasing the benefits and reduction of outlays as a result of compensating for the destructiveness of the system, the environment and man.

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“…This industrial activity is heavily practiced in South Asia countries, but those shipyards have many deficiencies related to the pertinence of the infrastructures and low labour guarantees required to execute the industrial process by environmentally and socially sustainable way (CHOI et al, 2016;HOSSAIN;ISLAM, 2006;KNAPP et al, 2007). There are many negative environmental and social impacts from ship recycling in Asia (DEMARIA, 2010;FREY, 2013B;CHOI et al, 2016) This industry generates recyclable and non-recyclable materials, the first one is reused or recycled, and they justify the ship recycling practice (HIREMATH; TILWANKAR; ASOLEKAR, 2015). Most part of this kind of materials is metallic and http://www.ijmp.jor.br v. 10, n. 6, November -December 2019ISSN: 2236-269X DOI: 10.14807/ijmp.v10i6.1004 correspond between 70% and 85% of the overall weight of a ship, ranging from 50% to 70% (ANDERSEN et al, 2001;DEMARIA, 2010;WORLD BANK, 2010).…”

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“…After considering the total steel scrap available in Brazil in 2016, was observed that 54% corresponded to obsolete steel scrap, considered as the material with the highest impurities index (CGEE -MDIC, 2014;ALICE WEB, 2017;INSTITUTO AÇO BRASIL, 2017). In contrast, the steel processing industries of South Asia use ship´s steel scrap extensively in the re-laminating process due to its high purity and quality (SAHU, 2014;CHOI et al, 2016;DEVAULT et al, 2016). This scenario described above allows us to infer that naval steel can guarantee the intrinsic characteristics of products to be manufactured and processed by the Brazilian steel and smelting industry.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…On the other hand, when analysing the variable (IV) related to the volume of potentially recoverable steel scrap from ship fleets through the ship recycling activity, it was possible to identify that the implementation of ship recycling could provide significant volumes of steel scrap, especially leveraged by Latin American vessel fleets, as shown in Figures 7 and 8 respectively. The extraction of materials from the recycling activities of ships allows a high index of naval exploitation of steel (KNAPP et al, 2008;CHOI et al, 2016;JAIN, 2017;JAIN et al, 2017). Thus, the activity represents a market opportunity to be harnessed for the supply of scrap to the local steel and foundry industry, which can be leveraged by local shipyards.…”

Section: Independent Journal Of Management and Production (Ijmandp)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Can ship recycling increase the Brazilian scrap capacity?

Sánchez

Pereira

2019

Ind. Jour. Man. & Prod.

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Ship recycling is commonly developed in Asian beaches due to labour cost and legal flexibility. The extraction of steel from ship recycling makes this activity economically viable and must accomplish with the labour and environmental requirements. In that way, local steel scrap market in Brazil presented a deficit of at least 3.0 million / tons in the last 8 years while not meeting the demand of the local steel and smelting industries. In this line, we considered the economic potential for developed ship recycling in Brazilian shipyards, finding an opportunity to meet local demand for steel scrap of 3.0 million/year -and international demand of 370,000 tons/year, both means between 2007 and 2017. Finally, we found that there is an opportunity of implement ship recycling activity in Brazilian shipyards for the extraction of steel scrap from local ship fleet with market value of US$ 587,51 million. After considering the premise of serve neighbouring Latin American ship fleets, the volume of steel scrap and market value increase to US$ 19,94. This scenario could promote an attractive business and the rotation of the assets for local shipyards.

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Economic and environmental perspectives of end-of-life ship management

Cited by 65 publications

References 22 publications

Decarbonizing the international shipping industry: Solutions and policy recommendations

Decarbonizing the international shipping industry: Solutions and policy recommendations

Machinery Life Cycle Efficiency Models for their Sustainable Development

Can ship recycling increase the Brazilian scrap capacity?

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