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Pedro M. Batista Santos and Tiago A. Santos
This paper presents the comprehensive state-of-the-art on the challenges that short sea shipping currently faces across the world. The concept and its relationship with coastal shipping are introduced, followed by a review of the EU policies for short se...
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Dimitar Yalamov, Petar Georgiev and Yordan Garbatov
Natural gas is cheaper than fuel on an energy basis, making it an alternative ship fuel which leads to a reduced operating cost and clean gas environmental conditions. The current study analyses the retrofit of an ageing multi-purpose ship to use liquefi...
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Panagiotis Farmakis, Athanasios Chassiakos and Stylianos Karatzas
Hub-and-Spoke (H&S) network modeling is a form of transport topology optimization in which network joins are connected through intermediate hub nodes. The Short Sea Shipping (SSS) problem aims to efficiently disperse passenger flows involving multipl...
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Alba Matínez-López, Héctor Rubén Díaz Ojeda, Marcos Míguez González and África Marrero
Fulfilment of the progressive environmental normative involves a singular challenge for Short Sea Shipping (SSS), since it must maintain its competitiveness versus other transport alternatives. For this reason, over the last decade SSS vessels have been ...
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Panagiotis Karvounis, João L. D. Dantas, Charalampos Tsoumpris and Gerasimos Theotokatos
The shipping sector decarbonisation has attracted great attention due to the sector contribution to worldwide carbon emissions. This study aims at investigating the techno-economic?environmental performance of different ship power plants to identify sust...
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Tiago A. Santos, Miguel Â. Fonseca, Pedro Martins and C. Guedes Soares
This paper studies the possibilities of closer integration of short sea shipping, with other components of the Trans-European Transport Networks, shifting a significant share of road freight onto rail corridors and inland waterways. A numerical model of ...
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Mónica M. Ramalho and Tiago A. Santos
This paper discusses the most attractive emission compliance options (emission abatement technologies and cleaner fuels) in intermodal transport chains that include short sea shipping. Most studies on emissions-based transport chain comparisons have esti...
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Francesc Xavier Martínez de Osés, Elisenda Ventura Jariod and Román Belmonte López
The Western Mediterranean basin is a busy route by Short Sea Shipping with an important route between Barcelona (Spain) and Genoa (Italy), where climatic patterns show similarities but vary during the year. One essential topic for Short Sea Shipping comp...
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Xue-Bin Zheng, Yul-Seong Kim and Young-Ran Shin
Nowadays, roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) is an important mode for short sea shipping (SSS) due to its advantages of fast and convenient load and unloading system. Despite the advantages, the market share of Ro-Ro is insignificant compared with lift-on/lift-off...
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Mónica M. Ramalho and Tiago A. Santos
This paper applies a methodology for computing external costs in an intermodal transport network that includes short sea shipping to explore the impact of external costs in its competitiveness. The network, which includes roads, freight railways, maritim...
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Kirsi Spoof-Tuomi and Seppo Niemi
The shipping industry is looking for strategies to comply with increasingly stringent emission regulations. Fuel has a significant impact on emissions, so a switch to alternative fuels needs to be evaluated. This study investigated the emission performan...
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Jose Prata, Elisabete Arsenio
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This paper extends the previous R&D project on the evaluation of intermodal freight transport scenarios (seamless multimodal logistic chains) centered in the Port of Sines in Portugal where a set of alternative investment options were compared: (i) marit...
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Carl Axel Benjamin Medbøen, Magnus Bolstad Holm, Mohamed Kais Msakni, Kjetil Fagerholt and Peter Schütz
Here we study a short-sea feeder network design problem based on mother and daughter vessels. The main feature of the studied system is performing transshipment of cargo between mother and daughter vessels at appropriate locations at sea. This operation ...
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Fengrui Zhang, Dayong Ning, Jiaoyi Hou, Hongwei Du, Hao Tian, Kang Zhang and Yongjun Gong
Efficiently salvaging shipwrecks is of the utmost importance for safeguarding shipping safety and preserving the marine ecosystem. However, traditional methods find it difficult to salvage shipwrecks in deep water. This article presents a novel salvage t...
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Tamara Petranovic, Antonio Mikulic, Marko Katalinic, Maro Corak and Jo?ko Parunov
The method for the prediction of extreme vertical wave bending moments on a passenger ship based on the hindcast database along the shipping route is presented. Operability analysis is performed to identify sea states when the ship is not able to normall...
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Hoda El Safty and Reza Marsooli
Aerial photographs and field studies have revealed a rapid deterioration of salt marshes in Jamaica Bay, New York. Past studies have linked marsh deterioration to sediment supply, water quality, storms, and sea level rise. Yet ship wakes and their potent...
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Beatriz Molina Serrano
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En los últimos tiempos las implicaciones de la reglamentación medioambiental en el sector transporte han ido en aumento, la Comunidad Europea se ha marcado como objetivo llevar a cabo una autentica estrategia para racionalizar la política de transportes,...
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Jesus Murgoitio, Fernando Vázquez, Ricardo Samaniego, Enrique Paz, ... Eusebio Veiga
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In the past decades, social development has motivated a notable growth on transportation necessities. In 2020, higher tendencies are expected, so transportation demand will grow about a 20%. Besides, one of the foundations of the UE's Green Policy initia...
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Samir Awad-Núñez, Nicoletta González-Cancelas, Francisco Soler-Flores, Alberto Camarero-Orive
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The decision of where to locate a dry port requires the analysis of the whole logistics supply chain, with the objective of transferring the largest volume of goods possible from road to more energy efficient means of transport, like rail or Short Sea Sh...
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