An anchorage planning strategy with safety and utilization considerations

An Integral Approach to Sustainable Decision-Making within Maritime Spatial Planning—A DSC for the Planning of Anchorages on the Island of Šolta, Croatia

“…According to the above-mentioned, research on scientific and professional literature has been expanded upon, in the use of DS in maritime spatial planning, and it has been noted that most of the research was related to DS usage in the berth allocation problem [28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]. None of these authors conducted studies in which all affected groups (government, experts, and users) were involved in the strategy selection, and none of them gave a solution for the spatial plan design for the development of anchorage capacities with the approach of DSC as a proven high quality "tool" for decision-makers dealing with this issue.…”

“…None of these authors conducted studies in which all affected groups (government, experts, and users) were involved in the strategy selection, and none of them gave a solution for the spatial plan design for the development of anchorage capacities with the approach of DSC as a proven high quality "tool" for decision-makers dealing with this issue. Oz et al [37] in their study, introduced novel performance metrics aimed at measuring safety in anchorage planning, and proposed a multiobjective optimization strategy in order to maximize the utilization of the anchorage area and to minimize the risk of accidents at the same time, using a strategy called MOAP (Multi-Objective Anchorage Planner). The differences from this study are that it did not use DSC in combination with multicriteria DM and multicriteria methods that will provide support to the spatial planning specialists in designing spatial plans that are related to anchorage capacities development, using aspects of sociological, technical-economic, and the protection of natural and cultural heritage.…”

“…This can be coped with the fact that most countries have just started to apply MSP. The application of DS in MSP has been found in papers dealing with the protection of environment, ecology, biodiversity, coastal, and seabed habitat features [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26], marine traffic [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36], anchorage planning strategy [37], and site identification (selection) [38][39][40]. It can be concluded that most of the papers, in which DSS is used in the planning of various activities in MSP, are based on ecological issues, and on the issue of regulating traffic within maritime industrial ports, but not with the development of spatial plans, and especially not with plans related to the construction of anchorages as a civil engineering problem.…”

Reducing Anchorage in Ports: Changing Technologies, Opportunities and Challenges

“…Some ships at anchor in ports are commonly taken as business as usual; a necessary inventory to accommodate the uncertainty of ship arrivals in light of variable ocean and port conditions. This may account for academic articles on anchorage dealing not with the economics of ships at anchor but with their safety, the utilisation of areas for anchorage, Zhong and Ai (2017) and Oz et al (2015), and the effects of anchorage on the marine ecosystem, Broad et al (2020). Studies modelling aspects of port terminal operations and performance, usually container terminals, do not examine the effects of management practices on the level of anchorage, Golias et al (2009), Legato and Mazzo (2020).…”

A stochastic approximation approach to spatio-temporal anchorage planning with multiple objectives

“…Furthermore, anchorages provide vital services to vessels such as serving as a shelter from extreme weather conditions and loading/unloading of cargo. Anchorages also facilitate land services including fueling, legal issues, and repair (Oz et al, 2015). Taking into account the significance of anchorages along with the widespread popularity of maritime transportation, effective management of the anchorage areas has come to be a pressing concern.…”