Technologies for Sustainable Shipping in the Polar Regions
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Ocean Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2023) | Viewed by 3796
Special Issue Editors
Interests: decarbonization; arctic ships; sustainable shipping; optimization
Interests: arctic engineering; ocean sustainability; renewable energy; maritime decarbonisation
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Interests: ice mechanics; ice-structure interaction; ice loads; ice navigation; ship performance in ice
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Interests: fluid–structure interaction in the ocean; hydrodynamic of high-speed boats; wave–ice interactions; water waves; ocean renewable energy; polar seas
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There is significant shipping in cold regions with extended ice cover, including the Arctic, the Antarctic, and other warmer regions, such as the Bay of Bothnia and the Gulf of Finland. Moreover, Climate Change contributes to the further development of polar shipping routes by more favorable ice conditions expected in the future. However, operating a ship in ice is energy-consuming and requires developing advanced technologies for environmentally friendly shipping, yet accounting for other sustainability domains, e.g., safety and economic efficiency. Studying the environmental domain of sustainability is especially relevant for the Arctic, considering its sensitive ecosystem and the local effect of air pollution, although accounting for safety and economic efficiency contributes to a healthy and prosperous society.
This Special Issue invites theoretical and applied contributions, developing innovative technologies for environmentally friendly, safe, and cost-efficient ships and maritime transport systems operating in ice.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Polar conceptual ship design for sustainability;
- Alternative propulsion and energy technologies for polar ships;
- Decision-making tools for sustainable shipping;
- Sustainable optimization of polar ship design;
- Sustainable routing of a ship in ice;
- Tools and methods for sustainable icebreaker assistance;
- Technologies for simulation of ship performance in ice contributing to decarbonization;
- Application of AI for sustainable shipping;
- Sustainable autonomous ice-going ships.
Dr. Aleksander A. Kondratenko
Dr. Luofeng Huang
Dr. Fang Li
Dr. Sasan Tavakoli
Dr. Spyros Hirdaris
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- arctic green technologies
- arctic design
- sustainable polar shipping
- decarbonizing
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