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Speed Optimization vs Speed Reduction in Maritime Transport: the Speed Limit Debate

Harilaos N. PsaraftisProfessor, DTU

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Main reference

• Paper submitted to IAME 2019 (Athens)

• Paper submitted to Sustainability journal

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A synthesis of work on

• Speed optimization in maritime transport

• The quest to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from ships

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Two tracks

The ”science” track

•O(20) papers and book chapters on ship speed optimization

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Two tracks

The ”science” track

•O(20) papers and book chapters on ship speed optimization

The ”policy” track

•Process at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) on GHG emissions reduction

(Both circa 2010)

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Air emissions

GHG emissions

•Mainly CO2

•CH4

•N2O

•Etc

•796 million tonnes of CO2 in 2012

•2.2%

Non-GHG emissions

•SOx

•NOx

•P.M.

•etc

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The ”policy” trackBig news from the IMO: April 2018!

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”Initial IMO strategy”

CENTRAL AMBITION

• Reduce annual GHG emissions by ≥ 50% by 2050 (vs 2008 levels)

• Reduce annual CO2 emissions per transport work by ≥ 40% by 2030, pursuing efforts towards 70% by 2050 (vs 2008 levels)

• Q: How?

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LONG LIST OF CANDIDATE MEASURES

HIERARCHY

•SHORT TERM (2018-2023)

•MEDIUM TERM (2023-2030)

•LONG TERM (2030 on)

EXAMPLES

•Speed reduction

•Market basedmeasures

•Low carbon fuels

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Among the short term measures

• ”Speed reduction” was proposed as a keymeasure

• Advocates said it can have an immediateimpact in reducing CO2

• Can be used as a bridge until more permanent measures are in place (eg, low carbon fuels)

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*Psaraftis, H.N. and C.A. Kontovas (2009), “CO2 Emissions Statistics for the World Commercial Fleet”, WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs, 8:1, pp. 1-25.

2007 data: The top tier of the container fleet emits more CO2 than the entire tanker fleet

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Speed reduction (rationale)

•Pay less for fuel

•Reduce emissions

•Help sustain a volatile market

•Win-win-win?

•(killing 3 birds with one stone?)

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Who opposed the Initial IMO Strategy?

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Who opposed the Initial IMO Strategy?

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Also

•Chile and Peru objected to ”speed reduction” as a measure.

•Argued that sending cherries to China would suffer.

•Suggested using ”speed optimization” instead

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Compromise solution:

Include both!

•But, no one is really sure what is meant by ”speed optimization”!

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Speed tradeoffs

•A higher speed will be more costly in terms of fuel consumption

•FC vs speed: highly nonlinear

•BUT: A higher speed will earn more money per unit time (haul more cargoes)

•Hence, it makes sense to optimize it!

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Speed reduction (rationale)

•Pay less for fuel

•Reduce emissions

•Help sustain a volatile market

•Win-win-win?

•(killing 3 birds with one stone?)

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Win-win(-win)?

Side effects?

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Win-win(-win)?

Side effects?

•You will need more ships to maintain throughput

•Or bigger ships

•These will come at a cost

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Build more ships to match demand throughput

•More emissions due to shipbuilding and scrapping (life cycle analysis)

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More ships also means

•More maritime traffic

•Implications on safety!

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Yet another side-effect

•Cargo may shift to land-based modes, if these are available

•This may result in more CO2

•European short-sea shipping

•Even in deep-sea shipping

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Reduce speed: dual level targetting

• TACTICAL/OPERATIONAL

• Operate existing ships at a reduced speed (slow steaming)

• STRATEGIC (DESIGN)

• Design new ships that cannot go very fast (have smaller engines)

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EEE is green

• Design speed:

17.8 knots

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In many maritime OR/MS models

•Ship speed is assumed FIXED (NOT a decision variable)

•This may remove flexibility in the decision process and produce sub-optimal solutions

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EXAMPLE 1

•Several models include – port capacity constraints,

– berth occupancy constraints,

– time window constraints,

– or other constraints that preclude the simultaneous service of more than a given number of vessels.

•Such constraints might be easier to meet if ship speed was allowed to vary.

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EXAMPLE 2

Handled a paper in Tr. Sci.

Topic: Schedule disruption in liner shipping

Key assumption: speed is fixed

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EXAMPLE 2

Handled a paper in Tr. Sci.

Topic: Schedule disruption in liner shipping

Key assumption: speed is fixed

Outcome:

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Speed basics

• Ships do NOT trade at predetermined speeds!

• Those who pay for the fuel, that is, the ship owner if the ship is in

the spot market on voyage charter, or the charterer if the ship is on

time or bareboat charter, will choose an optimal speed as a

function of basically

– (a) the fuel price, and

– (b) the freight rate

• Higher fuel prices and/or lower freight rates will induce lower

speeds (and vice versa)

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Fuel consumption function

•FC = kV3 (tons per day)

•Reasonable approximation in many cases

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More general FC

• FC = (A+Bvn)Δ

2/3

Δ= ship’s displacementn ≥ 3

Even more general

• FC =f(v,w) (general)

• Depends on speed v and payload w

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Speed taxonomy paper

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Speed taxonomy paper

Purpose

•What has been done in this area?

•42 papers reviewed

1st cut

•Non-emissions related (circa 1981)

•Emissions-related (circa 2009)

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How many speed papers?

•42 surveyed in the 2013 paper

•How many since then?

•A good proxy is the # of citations of the 2013 paper

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Citations of the 2013 paper:

222

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Citations of the 2013 paper:

222 Most interesting citation

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Ship speed and Siberia

•Use logit models to estimate modal shifts

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•One ship model •Fleet model

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Combining speed and routing decisions

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Speed and ECAs (emission control areas)

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Speed and ECAs ii

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Dynamic speed

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Speed with flexible frequencies

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A tactical level fixed route problem

• Assumes a fleet of N

identical containerships

deployed on a given fixed

route• Can be generalized to non-identical ships

• WHAT IS OPTIMIZED?

• Maximize the average per

day profit of the carrier.

•Any route topology can be examined

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Mathematical formulation

Revenue Fuel cost (sea) Fuel cost (port) Inventory cost

Cargo handling cost OPEX

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Observation: BOTH obj. fcn. and constraints are NONLINEAR

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KEY FINDING

FREQUENCY OF ONE CALL PER WEEK NOT NECESSARILY

OPTIMAL

Requiring frequency to be one call per week may restrict feasible

solution space and will generally entail a cost.

Set of allowable service periods (days):

S={3.5, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14}

BiweeklyTwice a week Weekly

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Chile and Peru

•They objected to ”speed reduction” as a measure.

•Argued that sending cherries to China would suffer.

•Suggested using ”speed optimization” instead

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Service

Source: ShipCLEAN project (2018)

Vessels deployed in a TransPacific service

EASTBOUND: Xiamen, Ningbo, Shanghai, Manzanillo, Buenaventura, Callao, San Antonio

WESTBOUND: Callao, Manzanillo, Kaohsiung, Yantian, Hong Kong, Xiamen

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Focus – ContainershipEXPRESS BERLIN

Built in 2011

Design speed: 25.2 knots

Chartered for: YANG MING LINE (previously: HANJIN)

Main Engine Power 68600 kW

10100 TEU

1400 reefers

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More Info on the Service

Average service speed: 15.9 knots

Corresponds to about 18.5% of MCR!

25% MCR: 17 knots

50% MCR: 22 knots

75% MCR: 25.2 knots

100% MCR: 27.7 knots

10% MCR: 12.6 knots

Maximum Continuous Rating (max engine power)

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More Info on the Service

Average service speed: 15.9 knots

Corresponds to about 18.5% of MCR!

25% MCR: 17 knots

50% MCR: 22 knots

75% MCR: 25.2 knots

100% MCR: 27.7 knots

10% MCR: 12.6 knots

Maximum Continuous Rating (max engine power)

1st OBSERVATION: SLOW STEAMING BIG TIME!

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2nd observation: speed profile

0

5

10

15

20

25

Speed per leg (knots)

According to Published Schedule Actual

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2nd observation: speed profile

0

5

10

15

20

25

Speed per leg (knots)

According to Published Schedule Actual

WESTBOUNDEASTBOUND

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Speed imbalances

Source: ShipCLEAN project (2018)

EASTBOUND: Xiamen, Ningbo, Shanghai, Manzanillo, Buenaventura, Callao, San Antonio

WESTBOUND: Callao, Manzanillo, Kaohsiung, Yantian, Hong Kong, Xiamen

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How can one explain speed imbalances?

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How can one explain speed imbalances?

•(Commercial) factors:

•Difference in values of cargo

•Difference in load factors

•More expensive cargoes sail faster

•Fuller ships sail faster

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Can be shown that

•v13 - v2

3 = k(P1u1 - P2u2)Q/p

constant

Values of cargo Load factors

Ship capacity

Fuel price

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The speed limiters lobby

•Speed limits have been proposed by some NGOs

•These NGOs have been lobbying the IMO and the EU for years

•Clean Shipping Coalition

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Tried before in 2010

MEPC 61• CSC: “speed reduction should be pursued as a regulatory option in its own right and not only as possible consequences of market-based instruments or the EEDI.”

•RESULT:

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CE Delft study 2017

•Speed limits as functions

of ship type and size

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On the table as of 2018!

SET OF SHORT-TERM MEASURES (2018-2023)

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Central question

In IMO lingo

•Speed reduction, or speed optimization?

Substance-wise

•Reduce speed via speed limits, or via a bunker levy?

•Both measures wouldreduce speed, henceemissions

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Important note!

A bunker levy is NOT explicitly included in the set of measures currently considered by the IMO

Only obliquely included under medium term measures (2023-2030):

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Question

• Which is better, a bunker levy or a speed limit?

• ANSWER:

• Depends. A speed limit can cause higher, lower, or the same CO2 reductions as a bunker levy

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Rudimentary scenario

Parameter Value

SHIP CAPACITY 10,000 TEU

ROUTE LENGTH 20,000 nm

FREIGHT RATE (base case) 1,500 USD/TEU

CAPACITY UTILIZATION 0.6

FUEL PRICE (base case) 500 USD/tonne

MINIMUM SPEED 16 knots

MAXIMUM SPEED 26 knots

OPEX 15,000 USD/day

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Assume also

Fuel consumption cubic with speed

FC= 144 tonnes/day when v=22 knots

Optimal speed is defined as the speed that maximizes the ship operator’s average per day profit

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Result #1: A stronger market induces higher speeds and hence more CO2

Optimal speed CO2

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Result #2: a bunker levy reduces optimal speed

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Result #3: CO2 can be reduced two ways

Bunker levy Speed limit

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Result #4: equivalence between levy and speed limit

•For any given levy, an equivalent speed limit can be found so that CO2 reduction is exactly the same

•(but this will be ship specific, route specific and scenario specific!)

•However, otherattributes of the solution will be different

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Main differences

A speed limit

•Will require no levy to be paid and hence the ship owner’s profit will be higher

•Will achieve no internalization of external costs of CO2

Also

•No application of the ”polluter pays” principle

•No money collected

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Main problems

•A uniform speed limit will not work

•Will apply to some ships, will be superfluous to some others, depending on ship type, size, trade, route direction, state of market, etc

•If speed limit is ship/route/direction/etcspecific, implementingand enforcing it will bean administrative nightmare

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Main problems ii

•Speed limit will provide no incentive to build & operate energy efficient ships

•Speed limit will penalize energy efficient ships, forcing them to sail at same speed as their energy inefficient competitors

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Comparison

ISSUE Speed limit Speed optimization

(with bunker levy)

Timing of measure within

IMO Initial Strategy

Short-term Medium-term

Reduce GHG emissions Yes Yes

Apply the polluters pay

principle

No Yes

Internalize the external

costs of GHG emissions

No Yes

Collect monies for out-of-

sector emissions reductions,

LDCs or SIDS

No Yes

Short term effect: freight

rate increase

Yes Yes

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Comparison ii

ISSUE Speed limit Speed optimization

(with bunker levy)

Long term effect: build

more ships

Yes Yes (less pronounced)

Market distortions Considerable None

Increase in lifecycle GHG

emissions

Higher Lower

Burden to administer Considerable Low

Enforcement Difficult to impossible Tractable

Incentive to economize and

improve efficiency

No Yes

Compatible with virtual

arrival

No Yes

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Main results (thus far)

• Speed reduction will indeed reduce GHG emissions

• Big confusion on how to achieve speed reduction

• True that the speed limit option may buy some time within the whole IMO debate on GHGs.

• May also give a signal that looks politically correct, that the IMO has moved boldly and took a first step towards GHG emissions reduction.

• However, it will also create many distortions and other problems and because of this the measure should be avoided.

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The SOx connection

•Global 0.5% sulphur cap (1/1/2020)

•Fuel prices (MGO, MDO) are expected to rise

•A slow-down of the fleet is expected

•Except: ships with scrubbers will still be able to burn the (cheaper) HFO

•Hence these ships will sail faster!

•How much faster, no one knows.

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The SOx connection ii

• Producing low S fuel emits CO2

• SOx trapping devices like scrubbers increase fuelconsumption hence CO2

• More expensive low S fuel may cause modal shifts (mainlyto road) hence more CO2

• SOx causes radiative cooling, hence reducing SOx mayincrease global warming!

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IMO: The way to 2023 (MEPC 80)

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AFTER A FIERCE DEBATE:”prioritization” changed to ”consideration”

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Q: Any measure that might work?

A: A significant bunker levy

–SHORT RUN: reduce speed

–LONG RUN: incentivize technologies or low carbon fuels that would reduce GHG emissions

(if fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them)

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VLCC emissions

Gkonis and Psaraftis (2012)

0

10.000

20.000

30.000

40.000

50.000

60.000

70.000

80.000

90.000

400 600 800 1000

HFO cost (USD/tonne)

Annual CO2

emissions

(tonnes)

WS120 WS100 WS60

-29%

-57%

-60%

-64%

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In the long run

•Drastic GHG reductions can only come from low carbon fuels

•Need market based incentives to make these fuels economically viable

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Way ahead

• Interesting to see how IMO will proceed

– Next meeting: MEPC 74 (13-17 May 2019)

• (personal opinion) BIG MESS if speed limits are adopted!

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Some selected papersBektas, T., Ehmke, J. F., Psaraftis, H.N., Puchinger, J., 2018, The role of operational research in green freight transportation, European Journal of Operational Research, doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.06.001.

Fagerholt, K., Gausel, N., Rakke, J., Psaraftis, H. N., 2015, “Maritime routing and speed optimization with emission control areas,” Transportation Research Part C, 52, 57-63.

Fagerholt, K., Psaraftis, H.N., 2015, On two speed optimization problems for ships that sail in and out of emission control areas, Transportation Research Part D , 39, 56-64, 2015.

Giovannini, M., Psaraftis, H.N., 2018, The profit maximizing liner shipping problem with flexible frequencies: logistical andenvironmental considerations, Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, doi.org/10.1007/s10696-018-9308-z.

Gkonis, K.G., Psaraftis, H.N., 2012, Modelling tankers’ optimal speed and emissions, Archival Paper, 2012 SNAME Transactions, Vol. 120, 90-115, 2012 (Annual Meeting of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Providence, RI, USA, Oct. 2012.)

Kontovas, C.A., Psaraftis, H.N., 2011, Reduction of emissions along the maritime intermodal container chain: operational models and policies, Maritime Policy and Management Vol. 38, No. 4, pp 451-469.

Kontovas, C.A., Psaraftis, H.N., 2011, The link between economy and environment in the post-crisis era: lessons learned from slow steaming,” Int. J. Decision Sciences, Risk and Management, Vol. 3, Nos. 3/4, 311-326.

Magirou, E.F., Psaraftis, H.N., Bouritas, T. 2015, The economic speed of an oceangoing vessel in a dynamic setting, Transportation Research Part B, 76, 48-67.

Psaraftis, H.N., Kontovas, C.A., 2010, Balancing the Economic and Environmental Performance of Maritime Transportation, Transportation Research Part D 15, 458-462.

Psaraftis, H. N., and Kontovas, C. A. 2013. Speed models for energy-efficient maritime transportation: A taxonomy and survey. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 26, 331-351.

Psaraftis, H.N., Kontovas, C.A., 2014, “Ship speed optimization: Concepts, models and combined speed-routing scenarios,” Transportation Research Part C, 44, 52-69.

Psaraftis, H. N., and Kontovas, C.A. 2015, Slow steaming in maritime transportation: fundamentals, trade-offs, and decision models, chapter in Handbook of Ocean Container Transportation Logistics: Making Global Supply Chains Effective, C.-Y. Lee and Q. Meng (eds.) Springer.

Psaraftis, H. N., C.A. Kontovas, 2016, Green maritime transportation: Speed and route optimization, chapter in Green Transportation Logistics: in Search for Win-Win Solutions, H.N. Psaraftis (ed.) Springer.

Wen, M., Pacino, D., Kontovas, C., Psaraftis, H. N., 2017, A multiple ship routing and speed optimization problem under time, cost and environmental objectives, Transportation Research Part-D, 52, 303-321.

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