The demand for marine transportation and its associated CO2 emissions are growing rapidly as a result of increasing international trade and economic growth. An activity-based approach is developed for forecasting CO2 emissions from the China-oriented international seaborne trade sector. To accurately estimate the aggregated emissions, CO2 emissions are calculated individually for five categorie...

RANS-CFD is a well-established tool with widespread use in maritime industry and research. Valuable information might be extracted from the results of such simulations terms ship resistance flow field variables. With recent advancements computational power, it became possible to investigate performance ships self-propulsion conditions RANS method. This paper presents study which analyses small ...

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A new method is introduced to design optimal tracking controllers for a general class of nonlinear systems. A recently developed recursive approximation theory is applied to solve the nonlinear optimal tracking control problem explicitly by classical means. This reduces the nonlinear problem to a sequence of linear-quadratic and time-varying approximating problems which, under very mild conditi...

Management and organizational factors have contributed, directly or indirectly, to many tanker accidents. These factors are frequently not considered in human reliability analysis, probabilistic risk assessment or accident investigations. In order to successfully incorporate effective and efficient measures to prevent accidents, a systematic approach including all important root causes and vari...

Abstract Exploring how transnational environmental governance and the operation of global value chains (GVCs) intersect is key in explaining circumstances under which mandatory disclosure can improve footprint business operations. We investigate dynamics tanker shipping chain (a major emitter greenhouse gases) limits effectiveness European Union (EU) monitoring, reporting, verification (MRV) re...

Today, a number of state programs are aimed at the development water transport, in particular, financing construction new sea vessels and inland navigation. Leasing is key financial mechanism for building ships domestic shipyards. Currently, life cycle contracts successfully used, significant advantage which coverage all stages an object: design, construction, operation disposal object. The exp...