Sustainable Shipping A Cross-Disciplinary View
International shipping is currently at a crossroads. The decision of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in April 2018 to adopt an Initial Strategy so as to achieve by 2050 a reduction of at least 50% in maritime greenhouse gas (GHG) emissi
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Sustainable Shipping A Cross-Disciplinary View
Sustainable Shipping
Harilaos N. Psaraftis Editor
Sustainable Shipping A Cross-Disciplinary View
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Editor Harilaos N. Psaraftis DTU Management Engineering Technical University of Denmark Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
ISBN 978-3-030-04329-2 ISBN 978-3-030-04330-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04330-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018968417 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
To Aleka, Anastasia and Nikos
Foreword and Acknowledgments
This book is a compilation of material on sustainable shipping. The material comes from various sources, mostly from work of several external invited colleagues, but also from research projects that my associates and I have been involved in. An outline of the scope and contents of the book is presented in the Preface. The idea for this book originated in October 2016, a few months after my previous book, Green Transportation Logistics: The Quest for Win-Win Solutions, also published by Springer, came out. As developments at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the European Union (EU) on how to reduce maritime greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions looked interesting at the time, it occurred to me that a book focusing on sustainable shipping may be of interest to maritime stakeholders. The basic foundation for the book was research that originated circa 2008, when the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping (HCS) awarded to the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), my former affiliation, a small study on ship emissions. The study included an analysis of CO2 emissions statistics for the world fleet and the development of a rudimentary online
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