Abstract
Shipping contributes to air pollution, especially in coastal zones and harbour areas where a large number of people are concentrated. The urgent need for ‘green’ ship manoeuvres with less (or even no) emissions arises from such concerns. While there is already a lot of support available for an energy-efficient mode of operation and reduced emissions when operating in open seas, there is comparably less support in this regard for ship operation in approaches to ports and when manoeuvring in harbour basins. In the latter case, the focus is mainly on safety and time-efficiency, while energy efficiency and emissions are rather ignored. Basic studies are on-going, focusing on providing support for alternative manoeuvring strategies with less fuel consumption and reduced emissions, generated by advanced assistance tools for planning, conducting and monitoring of manoeuvres. The analysis at hand is related to on-going research; it describes the basic associated concepts and introduces the first preliminary results of case studies and pilot simulation experiments.
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The research work presented in this analysis is partly performed within the frame of the research and development projects MEmBran (Modelling of Emissions and Fuel Consumption during Manoeuvring Operation of ships” and “MTCAS - electronic maritime collision avoidance”, which are funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (Germany). Some parts of the work relevant for application are performed in the frame of the project “Research Port Rostock” financially supported by the Ministry of Education and Research of Mecklenburg Pomerania. Further on-going work that contributes to this study belongs partly to WMU’s project on further development and implementation of the e-Navigation concept funded by Korea Research Institute Ships & Ocean Engineering (KRISO) as well as the European project for research and technological development “OpenRisk”, co-financed by the EU – Civil Protection Financial Instrument as project 2016/PREV/26.
Furthermore, the shipping company Stena Line and its crew on the RoPax ferry “Mecklenburg-Vorpommern” kindly supported the studies through their invaluable collaboration for which the authors thank the crew very much.
Finally, it has to be mentioned that the professional version of the SAMMON software tools has been further developed by the start-up company Innovative Ship Simulation and Maritime Systems GmbH (see ISSIMS (2016)) and provided without costs for research studies.
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Baldauf, M. et al. (2018). Simulation-Based Support to Minimize Emissions and Improve Energy Efficiency of Ship Operations. In: Ölçer, A., Kitada, M., Dalaklis, D., Ballini, F. (eds) Trends and Challenges in Maritime Energy Management. WMU Studies in Maritime Affairs, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74576-3_17
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