Estimate vessel emissions in ports using AIS data: A study to identify emission distribution patterns in ports and evaluate emission reduction strategies

The shipping industry is responsible for almost 3% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions and is looking for possibilities to reduce their share. The demand for lowering the emissions of the maritime industry creates the need for insight in the emissions. Currently a generic method to specify emissions in space and time, as a function of vessel...

Challenges of integrating hydrogen in an operational port environment: Safety, Terminal Planning and Decision making aspects

Hydrogen is expected to be a significant force in this transition. Hydrogen can be produced using technologies that do not emit CO2 or other greenhouse gasses (“green H2”). Hydrogen can be transported in big quantities and long distances unlike electricity and can play the role of a clean fuel. The emerging hydrogen economy, which will be...

Sustainable sediment management in ports: The development of a decision-making approach applied on a case study of Porto Amboim

Ports are located in deltas and dynamic coastal regions with large loads of fine sediment. Ports also enhance the import of marine sediment by channel and basin deepening. This results in the need for extensive maintenance and sediment management. Finding an effective and efficient sediment man­agement strategy is difficult. This research dives...

Offshore-onshore port systems: A framework for the cost evaluation of container port systems

The size of container ships is constantly growing over recent decades due to a continuous search for economies of scale by shipping lines. The growth of the container ships has necessitated ports to adapt, e.g. by increasing the water depth requirements. Many of the conventional onshore ports cannot receive larger ships without dredging...

Strategies towards effective emission reduction of the inland shipping industry in the port of Rotterdam: Using a mixed-integer linear programming model

Currently, the inland shipping industry is not sufficiently incentivised to invest in sustainable technologies in order to reduce their emissions. The industry itself wants to be more sustainable, but there is insufficient financial room to invest in alternative technologies. Besides, public authorities try to achieve a reduction using command...

Benchmarking the Performance of Ports on Asset Management

Over the past decade, the complexity of operations in the port area has increased significantly. As global trade increased significantly, vessel sizes and cargo volumes surged, which places additional pressure on the ports' (physical) assets. Both the challenges the ports are facing and the willingness to ensure continuous improvement have...

The Port and the Automaton: An Investigation into the automated transition of the humber estuary and its port infrastructure

This project initiates by looking at the space as a territory (Raffestin, 2012), constructed through social interactions and networks. I believe the design project must anticipate the global social and economic shifts that are present within the territory of the North Sea and must be shaped in relation to the effects of these changes on local...

Some aspects of near shore processes near Visakhapatnam Harbour

Visakhapatnam is one of the major ports along the east coast of India. An outer harbar in 1976 is constructed to accomadate large ships and to meet the requirements of the ever growing industries of Visakhapatnam. For the maintainance of the Visakhapatnam outer harbour(VOH) two breakwaters are constructed at the south and east end of the harbar....