Regulating global shipping corporations' accountability for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the seas

Rahim, Mia Mahmudur; Islam, Tarikul; Kuruppu, Sanjaya

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2016.04.018

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“…In particular, shipping companies and cargo owners expect that environmental demand will continue to develop, but, for further improvements, it is essential to have a closer alignment between the different initiatives. As emerged in [25], currently there is a lack of international instruments holding shipping companies accountable for their vessels' performance in the reduction of emissions. In this context, an industry-driven approach to the reduction of vessel-sourced emissions is very important, since a comprehensive international instrument is unlikely to be implemented soon.…”

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Synchro-Modality and Slow Steaming: New Business Perspectives in Freight Transportation

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Abstract:The logistics sector faces substantial challenges in meeting customer demands for higher service quality, speed and flexibility under conditions of continued growth in world trade and worldwide transportation movements, increasing distances and vulnerabilities of the supply chain. Additional challenges relate to the economic and environmental sustainability of logistics operations. While a lot of attention was devoted in the past decades to the operational and technical aspects, the business development phase has been put aside, causing the market failure of several projects. The paper presents the SYNCHRO-modal supply chain eco-NET (SYNCHRO-NET) project, which will demonstrate the effectiveness of slow steaming combined with synchro-modality in reducing the cost and the emissions of international supply chains and improving reliability and sustainability through the optimization of the planning process. Differently from other similar projects, SYNCHRO-NET combines operational aspects with a business perspective and represents a stakeholder-driven approach aimed at developing a close-to-market solution over the timeframe of the project.

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Synchro-Modality and Slow Steaming: New Business Perspectives in Freight Transportation

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“…The GVC literature on the other hand has contributed to the discussion of environmental upgrading in maritime transport by examining its external drivers (Wuisan et al, 2012, Mackinnon, 2014, Lister et al, 2015, Rahim et al, 2016: multi-level regulation; various forms of business-to-business and multi-stakeholder cooperation; and buyer-driven demands for environmental upgrading (i.e., the requirements posed by cargo-owners to shipping companies when conditions for maritime transportation are negotiated between them). Their results suggest that without the explicit governance traits of either strong buyer or supplier power (as, e.g., in dry bulk shipping), environmental upgrading is difficult to achieve.…”

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Environmental upgrading in global value chains: The potential and limitations of ports in the greening of maritime transport

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“…Furthermore, the EU introduced the Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) regulation 2015/757 on 1 July 2015. This regulation obligates shipping firms operating in European waters to release information about their greenhouse gas emissions [28]. As result of the above-mentioned changes, the maritime industry increasingly adopted environmental technologies and less polluting fuels; e.g., biofuels, liquefied natural gas [24,29,30].…”

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Eco-Innovation Drivers in Value-Creating Networks: A Case Study of Ship Retrofitting Services

Hermann

Wigger

2017

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Previous studies discuss how regulatory, technological and market drivers increasingly challenge manufacturing industries to adopt eco-innovations. However, the understanding of the process by which eco-innovations are developed and commercialized as a result of these drivers is not yet well established, in particular because these drivers are perceived differently by the end-users and their suppliers. In this paper, we address the following research question: How do eco-innovation drivers shape processes in value-creating networks? To answer this question, we carried out a case study purposely selected to understand how eco-innovation drivers, such as regulation, market pull and technology, interact and affect the eco-innovation decisions in a given industry. We analyzed the processes in an eco-innovation initiative about retrofitting old ships, contextualized in the maritime equipment and supply industry. The paper makes two novel contributions: First, we develop a framework that can support supply-network eco-innovation initiatives to deal with changes at the regulatory, market and technology levels. The framework includes elements, such as value co-creation to explore technological opportunities emerging from the interaction of the drivers or value proposition development to align multiple actors' interests in the network and agree on shared expectations to exploit the opportunities. Second, we contribute to the emerging research area on eco-innovation processes by highlighting the lesser-known role of value-creating network dynamics. Value-creating networks can be a platform for the development of more radical eco-innovations if actors in the networks can align their value creation and capture objectives.

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Regulating global shipping corporations' accountability for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the seas

Cited by 47 publications

References 48 publications

Synchro-Modality and Slow Steaming: New Business Perspectives in Freight Transportation

Synchro-Modality and Slow Steaming: New Business Perspectives in Freight Transportation

Environmental upgrading in global value chains: The potential and limitations of ports in the greening of maritime transport

Eco-Innovation Drivers in Value-Creating Networks: A Case Study of Ship Retrofitting Services

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