Research for the Maritime Environment

ISL is performing environmental research e.g. on the impacts of anti-fouling vessel paints on the maritime environment, simulating noise emissions in container terminals, simulating air pollution on rivers with dense vessel traffic.
 

The protection of the environment is gains importance in the political and business environment. Maritime transport is already affected by a lot of regulations e.g. on clean fuel and limits of exhaust gases. Building or extending port facilities always require expertise about the expected noise and exhaust gas emissions caused by the new facility.

Cost-benefit analysis
With CBA based methodology evaluation approaches that have been developed at ISL to rank alternative available techniques which should mitigate the environmental impact in ship operation under aspects of antifouling, ballast water and NOx air emission.

Market Based Instruments
MBI for abatement of emissions from shipping. Development of a concept from various economic incentive instruments to reduce emissions from ships in case of additional environmental restrictions.

Benchmarking
Benchmarking of air emission (NOx, SOx, CO²) for RoRo and passenger Ferry Transport.

Simulating emissions
ISL has a long-standing experience in simulation – container terminals, rivers and networks. By extending the existing simulation software tools also environmental impacts of different simulated scenarios can be analysed – be it noise or exhaust gases.