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Reducing Sulfur Emissions: Logistical and Environmental Considerations

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In recent years the issue of sulfur emissions from maritime transport has seen newfound attention. This chapter presents an overview of the main issues of sulfur emissions and the legislative framework that seeks to reduce the sulfur footprint of the maritime sector. It also analyzes potential modal shifts toward less efficient land-based modes which may happen as a result of sulfur regulations and investigates the related potential economic damage to ship operators. To that effect, this chapter presents findings from a recently finished project at DTU and the developed methodological framework that can be used to estimate such modal shifts, as well as to measure the efficacy of policy and ship operators’ measures to reverse such shifts.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Source: http://www.cosbc.ca/index.php/international/item/1748-eu-hands-out-scrubber-subsidies

  2. 2.

    www.roroseca.transport.dtu.dk

  3. 3.

    http://portesbjerg.dk

  4. 4.

    http://www.humber.com

Abbreviations

BAF:

Bunker adjustment factor

CBA:

Cost-benefit analysis

CO:

Carbon monoxide

CO2 :

Carbon dioxide

EC:

European Commission

EEDI:

Energy Efficiency Design Index

ETS:

Emission trading system

EU:

European Union

GHG:

Greenhouse gas

HFO:

Heavy fuel oil

IMO:

International Maritime Organization

LNG:

Liquefied natural gas

MDO:

Marine diesel oil

MGO:

Marine gas oil

NOx :

Nitrogen oxides

Ro-Pax:

Ro-Ro with passengers

Ro-Ro:

Roll-on roll-off

SECA:

Sulfur Emission Control Area

SOx :

Sulfur oxides

SSS:

Short sea shipping

WHO:

World Health Organization

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Acknowledgments

Much of the work presented in this chapter is in the context of the project: “Mitigating and reversing the side-effects of environmental legislation on Ro-Ro shipping in Northern Europe” (also known as the RoRoSECA project) funded by the Danish Maritime Fund and the Orients Fund. We are grateful to Poul Woodall of DFDS whom we worked with in this project, for the provision of data and valuable input and discussions in producing this work.

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Zis, T.P.V., Psaraftis, H.N. (2019). Reducing Sulfur Emissions: Logistical and Environmental Considerations. In: Psaraftis, H. (eds) Sustainable Shipping. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04330-8_7

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