Specific environmental charges to boost Cold Ironing use in the European Short Sea Shipping

•Environmental charge calculation method by not using cold ironing (CI) in port.•Method is a pollutant differentiation system considers vessels’ and port’ features.•Environmental charge impact and CI retrofitting feasibility are tested through IRR.•Environmental charge is useful tool when onshore el...

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Published inTransportation research. Part D, Transport and environment Vol. 94; p. 102775
Main Authors Martínez-López, Alba, Romero-Filgueira, Alejandro, Chica, Manuel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 01.05.2021
Subjects
Cold Ironing
Internal rate of return
On shore power supply
Sensitivity analysis
Short sea shipping
Sensitivity analysis
Short sea shipping
Internal rate of return
Cold Ironing
On shore power supply
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Summary:•Environmental charge calculation method by not using cold ironing (CI) in port.•Method is a pollutant differentiation system considers vessels’ and port’ features.•Environmental charge impact and CI retrofitting feasibility are tested through IRR.•Environmental charge is useful tool when onshore electricity supply is sustainable.•Low GT vessel with long berthing time is the most benefitted SSS ship by CI using. Through Directive 2014/94/EU, European Union (EU) has required European ports to provide facilities to enable Cold Ironing (CI) use by 2025. This new reality advances a stricter normative in terms of port emissions. This paper introduces a calculation method to estimate a specific environmental charge in ports to incentivize CI use in Short Sea Shipping. The impact of this charge on the economic performance of the vessel’s operators is assessed through Internal Rate of Return of the CI retrofitting investment in vessels. The calculation method assumes a pollutant differentiation system by considering kinds of vessel, technical features, port localization and hinterlands populations. Results show that, only when the generation of on-shore electricity is dominated by sustainable sources, the environmental charge is effective to stimulate the CI retrofitting of vessels in adverse scenarios. Sensitivity analyses determine that low gross tonnages’ vessels with longer berthing times take greater advantage from CI use.
ISSN:1361-9209
1879-2340
DOI:10.1016/j.trd.2021.102775