Autonomous ships for container shipping in the Arctic routes

This study investigates the competitiveness of various autonomous ship categories for container shipping in the Arctic route. We propose a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) framework using four ship categories as alternatives and eight criteria for competitiveness evaluation. We analyse collecte...

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Published inJournal of marine science and technology Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 320 - 334
Main Authors Munim, Ziaul Haque, Saha, Rana, Schøyen, Halvor, Ng, Adolf K. Y., Notteboom, Theo E.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Tokyo Springer Japan 01.03.2022
Springer
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Alternatives
Automotive Engineering
Autonomous ship Arctic shipping Multi-criteria decision-making Northern sea route Best–worst method
Communication
Competitiveness
Containers
Control centres
Costs
Decision making
Engineering
Engineering Design
Engineering Fluid Dynamics
Environmental protection
Mechanical Engineering
Multiple criterion
Navigation
Offshore Engineering
Original Article
Protection
Search and rescue
Shipping
Ships
Arctic region
Arctic shipping
Best–worst method
Autonomous ship
Multi-criteria decision-making
Northern sea route
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Summary:This study investigates the competitiveness of various autonomous ship categories for container shipping in the Arctic route. We propose a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) framework using four ship categories as alternatives and eight criteria for competitiveness evaluation. We analyse collected data using the Best–Worst Method (BWM), one of the recently developed MCDM methods. The findings reveal that operating expenses, navigation aspects, and environmental protection are the three most important criteria for deploying autonomous ships in the Arctic route. Among the three investigated autonomous ships alternatives, the semi-autonomous ship operated from a shore control centre (SCC) is prioritized for Arctic shipping in the foreseeable future, when benchmarked against the conventional ship. The SCC-controlled semi-autonomous ship alternative is competitive in the majority of the considered criteria including operating expenses, capital expenses, navigation, ship-shore and ship–ship communication, search and rescue, and environmental protection.
ISSN:0948-4280
1437-8213
1437-8213
DOI:10.1007/s00773-021-00836-8