Hybrid shipyard concept for improving green ship recycling competitiveness

Abstract

This article presents the concept of a hybrid shipyard, a new idea in shipyard design that integrated ship recycling activity into a conventional shipyard. The essence of this hybrid concept is resource sharing and maximising facility utilisation. This article describes the issues arise in ship recycling yards and related works taken to overcome the problems. It also describes the basic process of each segment and includes the relevant aspects of yard facilities and layout based on the previous literature. Furthermore, the shipyard capacity was analysed to explore the available resources in conventional shipyards to adapt ship recycling. Lastly, this article provides insight into the prospect of the hybrid concept to improve ship recycling yard competitiveness.

Integrating Ship Recycling Facility into Existing Shipyard: A Study of Malaysian Shipyard

“…Many previous works were done to improve the safety, health, and environmental aspect of ship recycling yards to comply with international rules and regulations [2][3][4][5][6][7][8], for example, a design of green ship recycling by Sunaryo [9] has proposed a yard design including a list of facilities required by ship recycling yard to be operated as a green ship recycling yard. Similar works were also done by Fachry [7] and Fariya [5] who work on environmentally friendly ship recycling yards specifically for recycling general cargo ships, tug boats and barge and design sustainable ship recycling yard maximum capacity of 25,000 DWT respectively.…”

“…As a result, the green ship recycling operation is cost-ineffective compared to substandard ship recycling yards. Integrating ship recycling activity into an existing conventional shipyard has been recently discussed, and significant benefits are highlighted [2,8,12]. Zainol [8] investigates the interaction between a conventional shipyard and a ship recycling yard in terms of operation, facility, and layout and finds that several significant similarities can provide a ship recycling with some ready use resources from a conventional shipyard.…”

“…Integrating ship recycling activity into an existing conventional shipyard has been recently discussed, and significant benefits are highlighted [2,8,12]. Zainol [8] investigates the interaction between a conventional shipyard and a ship recycling yard in terms of operation, facility, and layout and finds that several significant similarities can provide a ship recycling with some ready use resources from a conventional shipyard. The shipbuilding industry of Malaysia is getting larger, and shipbuilders are adapting to the latest technology [13].…”