____________________________________________________________________ Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) is an approach adopted by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to support a systemic and structured assessment of proposals for new international regulations to improve shipping safety. Several case studies based on the approach have been conducted during the past few years. This paper a...

The pressure on shipping to reduce its carbon footprint is increasing. Various measures are being proposed at the International Maritime Organization (IMO), including Market-Based Measures (MBMs). This paper investigates potential of a bunker levy in achieving short-term CO2 emissions reductions. analysis focuses tanker market and uses data from latest IMO GHG studies variety other sources. con...

A prototype for an operational ship routing Decision Support System using time‐dependent meteo‐oceanographic fields is presented. The control variable is ship course, which is modified using a directional resolution of less than 27 degrees. The shortest path is recovered using a modified Dijkstra’s algorithm. Safety restrictions for avoiding surfriding and...

This paper reports on recent analysis of oil spill cost data assembled by the International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund (IOPCF). Regression analyses of clean-up costs and total costs have been carried out, after taking care to convert to current prices and remove outliers. In the first place, the results of this analysis have been useful in the context of the ongoing discussion within the I...

W. Gajewski,1 P. Achatz,2,3 O. A. Williams,4 K. Haenen,4 E. Bustarret,2 M. Stutzmann,1 and J. A. Garrido1 1Walter Schottky Institut, TU München, Am Coulombwall 3, 85748 Garching, Germany 2Institut Néel, CNRS, Université Joseph Fourier, BP 166, 38042 Grenoble, France 3INAC, SPSMS, LaTEQS, CEA, F-38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France 4Institute for Materials Research (IMO), Hasselt University, Belgium a...

Abstract The study evaluates the performance of Abuja Memorandum Understanding (MoU) on port states control (PSC) with a view to providing empirical evidence and information rates change in inspection efforts, detention poor PSC Officers MoU. It examined MoU level compliance International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulations West Central African sub-region. Secondary data obtained from datab...