Research News 1/2012

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Research News

CENTRE FOR MARITIME STUDIES

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MERENKULKUALAN KOULUTUS- JA TUTKIMUSKESKUS

Centre for Maritime Studies (CMS) is an international research centre. In addition to theoretical scientific research, we offer diverse research and consulting services in the fields of maritime industries and logistics for public and private sector organisations.

Research in the Centre for

Maritime Studies

Annually the CMS carries out dozens of research and consulting projects both nationally and internationally. In the Research News we tell about the projects and the results of them.

Fields of Expertise

• Traffic and ports in the Baltic Sea region• Logistic chains and infrastucture• The development and trends in the marine industry

and in the shipping companies• Environmental impacts of maritime transport• Supporting marine spatial planning• Promoting of shortsea shipping• Safety culture and management in the maritime and

port sector• Knowlegde of Russian ports and transit traffic• ICT and work processes in the ports

More information: http://mkk.utu.fi/en

We hope you enjoy reading the Research News!

Sakari Kajander Head of Unit Research and Consulting

Jenni StorgårdHead of UnitMaritime Logistics Research

Sari RepkaHead of UnitEnvironmental Research and Regional Development

Risks of Maritime Transportation of Chemicals in Baltic Sea – Chembaltic Project............................................................3

BSR InnoShip -project in a halfway – significantresults have been achieved for Baltic Sea to be a model area of clean and competitive shipping in Europe.......................4

CAFE – Competitive Advantage by SaFEty............................6

Penta - Ports of Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn, Turku and Naantali - together........................................................................7

StarDust – New Answers for Societal Challenges................8

MariTime Hubs – Best Practices for the Structural Changes in the Maritime Industry in the EU.........................8

Future Maritime Safety and Security Scenarios for the Baltic Sea until 2025.....................................................................10

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purpose of this study is to make an overview of transport volumes of liquid bulk chemicals (including liquefied gases) in the Baltic Sea and to find out the most transported liquid bulk chemicals in the Baltic Sea.

Data gathered in this study will be used as a background information in later stages of the Chembaltic project when the risks of the most transported chemicals in the Baltic Sea are assessed with a several different methods in order to highlight the chemicals that require special attention from an environmental point of view in potential marine accident situations in the Baltic Sea area.

All publications can be uploaded from www.merikotka.fi/chembaltic.

The project is scheduled between February 2011 and December 2013 in co-operation with University of Turku, Centre for Maritime Studies and Aalto University. The project is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (Tekes) as well as the following companies: Neste Oil Oyj, Vopak Chemicals Logistics Finland Oy, Port of HaminaKotka Ltd, rystal Pool Ltd, and Finnish Transport Safety Agency (Trafi). Other support is given by the Finnish Port Association and the Finnish Shipowners Association.

For more information: Researcher Antti [email protected]

Risks of Maritime Transportation of Chemicals in Baltic Sea – Chembaltic Project

The Chembaltic project will give information about the risks for maritime transportation of chemicals.The project will gather information about the chemicals transported in the Baltic Sea. The risk for chemical accidents for open water and ice conditions will be modeled. The risks of port operations of chemicals will be studied in the project. In addition, the risks of chemical tank washing water and other special risk factors in chemical transportation will be evaluated.

University of Turku, Centre for Maritime Studies has made a survey of transportation of liquid bulk chemicals in the Baltic Sea that was published in the end of April. The

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The BSR Innoship project will compile the Pan-Baltic manual of best practices, in which the methods to make the Baltic Sea as a model area for clean and competitive shipping in Europe are highlighted.

Baltic Sea Region (BSR) InnoShip project have reached the halfway of its three-year duration. In the first half of the project significant results have already attained. The most concrete result is probably a patent for a method developed to reduce diesel engine exhaust gases granted to Latvian Maritime Academy. Another concrete result originates from Poland where the Polish partner announced a contest for the pupils aiming to educate children on environmental issues. The theme of the contest was “Stop global warming in the Baltic Sea”.

In addition to these achievements, a report on structure and amount of Baltic maritime transport and a report on competition between sea-based and land-based logistics in the BSR region have been prepared. An essential part of the

project is to calculate the atmospheric emissions from ships in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea with STEAM model. The results derived from the model have been verified with stack measurements onboard ships in the different parts of the Baltic Sea. The tests were executed by the partners of the InnoShip project.

The measurements will continue during the latter part of the project. In addition to emission measurements a campaign with an Award for Clean Baltic Shipping and Sustainable Port Operation will take place. Also a feasibility study about existing and future emission abatement technology and emission control methods will be realized. The target groups of the questionnaire are the shipping companies and the manufactures of the engines in the region of participating countries.

The utmost goal in the project is to compile the Pan-Baltic manual of best practices, in which the methods to make the Baltic Sea as a model area for clean and competitive


BSR InnoShip -project in a halfway – significantresults have been achieved for Baltic Sea to bea model area of clean and competitive shipping in Europe

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shipping in Europe are highlighted.

In the end of April there was a partner meeting in Copenhagen where the achievements and results were looked through and the coming tasks were discussed. All project partners from nine countries located around the Baltic Sea – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland – were represented in the partner meeting. In addition to the active attendance among the project partners an associated partner from Russia participated the meeting.

A seminar about reduction of ship and port emissions through knowledge and innovation based competitiveness in the Baltic Sea region was organized in connection with the BSR InnoShip partner meeting. In the seminar the latest technological innovations to reduce emissions from ships and the adaptation of ship owners and operators to the environmental regulations, specially to the limitations to the sulphur content of fuel, were introduced. Further, as an example from Russia the effects of ship emissions to the area of Saint-Petersburg City were presented. After the presentations there was a panel discussion and debate where the future challenges and solutions for maritime

industry were discussed among the different stakeholders.

Due to more stringent international requirements for reducing harmful atmospheric emissions, shipping industry in the Baltic Sea will be faced in the coming years with substantially increased fuel expenses, logistics costs and need for large investments into low-emission technology and infrastructure. InnoShip project, established at 2010, aims at finding innovative solutions to retain the competitiveness of the maritime transportation in the Baltic Sea while bringing benefits to the environment in the form of reduced impacts of emissions. Especially health effects are considerable in the vicinity of ports, as those areas are often the most densely populated.

BSR InnoShip project is part-financed by the European Union. www.baltic.org/projects/bsr_innoship

For more information: Researcer Minna Alhosalo,[email protected]

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CAFE project addresses the issues of safety culture, safety management and the international networking of maritime safety experts in human factor issues.

Centre for Maritime Studies has published a report ”Incident Reporting in Shipping – Experiences and Best Practices for the Baltic Sea”, which analyzes incident and near miss reporting in shipping especially in Finland and Sweden. The report presents the results of an interview study which was accomplished in four shipping companies.

The aim of the interview study was to gather experiences and find best practices about incident reporting in shipping, concerning also voluntary shared reporting systems. The report contains also the results from expert workshops held in “International Incident and Near Miss Reporting Conference” (IMISS) in September 2011. The report can be downloaded in: http://mkk.utu.fi/dok/pub/A59-incident%20reporting.pdf.

Besides IMISS Conference, CAFE project has promoted international networking by visiting European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) and by participating in Short Sea Shipping Conference 2012 in Lisbon. During spring 2012 the results of CAFE project will be presented, for example, in European Maritime Day (May 21-22, Gothenburg) and in Transport Research Arena 2012 Conference (April 23-26, Athens).

CAFE is also participating NOFOMA 2012 Conference with a special session on safety culture, safety management and human factor in transport and logistics. NOFOMA 2012 Conference of logistics researchers will be held in Naantali (Finland) in June 2012.

Centre for Maritime Studies continues its work in CAFE by producing a conceptual model on maritime safety management and by investigating the concept of Corporate

Social Responsibility in Baltic shipping. More information about the CAFE project can be found at: http://www.merikotka.fi/cafe/. CAFE project started in the beginning of 2011 and has now reached halfway.

For more information: Head of Unit Jenni Storgård, [email protected]


CAFE – Competitive Advantage by SaFEty

Penta, a collaboration project between five ports in the Baltic Sea region, seeks proactive measures for ports to adapt to the changing business environment. The ports collaborating in the project include the ports of Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn, Turku and Naantali.

Current and future cargo and passenger flows, and the development of these flows have been analysed on the basis of written documents, several interviews and specific target group surveys. An analysis of the cargo and passenger flows in the Baltic Sea region is currently being made on the routes between the Penta ports. Proactive measures and recommendations are further developed with ports, partners and other stakeholders.

PENTA’s environmental focus area is noise, a potential issue raising conflicts of interest between ports and the society. The goal is to map how the PENTA ports are handling noise today and to give recommendations for how the ports could improve their noise management in the future. Reducing the impact of noise is regarded as a way

to maintain the PENTA ports’ good relations with their local communities.

Administrative processes, safety and security related to regular cargo and passenger transports between the Penta ports are also on focus. Legislation and regulatory measures have been analysed in four levels (international, EU, national and local) in order to bring forward bottlenecks to be solved. The first article “”Analysis of barriers caused by administrative, security and safety procedures in Pentathlon” is available.

For more information: Project Manager Johanna Yliskylä-Peuralahti, [email protected]

www.pentaproject.info

Penta - Ports of Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn, Turku and Naantali - together

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StarDust is a part of the EU’s BSR Stars programme and its overall objective is to find new answers for societal challenges that the people around the Baltic Sea are facing.

StarDust aims to turn these challenges into opportunities for growth. The project’s core is the five transnational pilots. CMS is a partner in the pilot called MarChain which scope includes the maritime clusters in the Baltic Sea Region.

The strategic vision of MarChain is to develop a virtual communication and cooperation environment for business, knowledge and competences by connecting the national clusters into united communication and business support infrastructure. The ultimate goal is that the maritime sector will achieve better resources to develop its products and services in the BSR.

In the evaluation meeting in February MarChain rearranged the structure of the project by identifying two sub-groups. It was decided that from now on MarChain will be targeting transport and logistics (products and services approaching sustainable development and green transport corridors) and leisure boats industry (part of the shipbuilding).

The last news is found here:

http://bsrstars.se/stardust/marchain/marchain-news-march-2012/?utm_source=BSR+Stars+and+StarDust+Internal+Newsletter&utm_campaign=af2780a5bc-Newsletter_No_33_23_2012&utm_medium=email

For more information: Senior Researcher Tapio Karvonen,[email protected]

The purpose of the project is to form international links to share experiences, information and existing best practices related to sudden structural changes, and to build long-term national and international partnerships between development organizations.

The project consists of conducting a comparative study of chosen European regions, interviewing central operators in each region who have taken part in development actions related to the structural changes. Based on the collected data an analysis will be conducted and a description of the structural change process, discussing the challenges and new opportunities faced by the regions will be formulated.

The effects and consequences of the structural changes will be analyzed, and the success and impact of the measures taken to control the changes will be evaluated. Based on the results recommendations and examples that can be applied in Finland will be given.

Until now studies on the structural change in Finland and in the chosen European regions have been conducted. The first interviews were made in Germany in May.

The CMS works on the project together with Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS). The project started last summer and it ends in June 2013.

More information of the MariTime Hubs can be found here: www.maritimehubs.fi

For more information: Senior Researcher Tapio Karvonen,[email protected]


MariTime Hubs – Best Practices for theStructural Changes inthe Maritime Industry in the EU

StarDust – New Answersfor Societal Challenges

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Future Maritime Safety and Security Scenarios for the Baltic Sea until 2025

Maritime safety and security is one of the priority areas in the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, which is jointly coordinated by the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Finland and the Danish Maritime Authority. Among the current activities of the Priority Area is the aim to develop a shared view among Baltic Sea States on the most significant development needs and challenges ahead with regard to maritime safety and security.

The Centre for Maritime Studies has been contracted by the Danish Maritime Authority to assist the development of scenarios in this field. Time horizon for the scenarios is year 2025.

On 15th May 2012 a Baltic Sea scenario session was held at the Ministry of Transport and Communications in Helsinki. A variety of maritime experts gathered together in order to identify and discuss future maritime safety related challenges and to develop scenarios. The aim of

the session was also to serve as a source of inspiration for potential future enhancement of cooperation among authorities responsible for maritime safety and security issues across the region.

The session was attended by approximately 30 experts from various Baltic Sea States. The final results of the scenario development session will be presented in a report by the fall of 2012.

For more information: Head of Unit Sakari Kajander, [email protected]

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225 – 26 October 2012

Meriton Grand Conference and Spa Hotel TallinnEstonia



The focus of the eighth Satama 12 Port will be on:

• Port policy in Europe• Transport scenarios and strategies for the area• Long-term impacts of rules and environmental regulations, e.g. sulphur

directive• Role of stake-holders and interest groups in the port development• Significance of value added services in ports• Operational environment of ports• SECA restrictions - the rise of Mediterranean and Black Sea Ports?• and many other topics

www.conferences.fi

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More information: [email protected]

Contact

MERENKULKUALAN KOULUTUS- JA TUTKIMUSKESKUSSJÖFARTSBRANSCHENS UTBILDNINGS- OCH FORSKNINGSCENTRAL


Research and Consulting UnitVisiting address:Joukahaisenkatu 3-5, TurkuPostal address:FI-20014 Turun yliopistoTel. +358 2 333 8167Fax +358 2 333 6449

Head of Unit Mr. Sakari KajanderTel. +358 2 333 8159

Environmental Research and Regional Development UnitVisiting address:Pohjoisranta 11 D, 3rd floorPostal address:PL 181, FI-28101 PoriTel. +358 2 333 51 (switch)Fax +358 2 633 4886

Head of Unit Mrs. Sari RepkaTel. +358 2 333 8109

Maritime Logistics Research UnitMussalontie 428 B, FI-48310 KotkaTel. +358 5 225 0577Fax +358 5 225 0570

Head of Unit Mrs. Jenni StorgårdTel. +358 2 333 8199

Education UnitRaumaSuojantie 2, FI-26100 RaumaTel. +358 2 333 8184Fax +358 2 333 6449

TurkuVisiting address: Joukahaisenkatu 3-5 Postal address:FI-20014 Turun yliopistoFax +358 2 333 6449

Head of Unit Ms. Sari NyroosTel. +358 2 333 8184

Conferences UnitVisiting address:Joukahaisenkatu 3-5, TurkuPostal address:FI-20014 Turun yliopistoTel. +358 2 333 8161Fax +358 2 333 6449

Head of Unit Ms. Kirsi LaitioTel. +358 2 333 8161

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