Abstract
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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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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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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