Designing an environmental performance indicator for shipbuilding and ship dismantling : project ECO-EFFI final report

Abstract

This study is the final report of the ECO-EFFI co-operation project. The purpose of the project is to develop methods and tools to estimate a ship’s eco-efficiency. The ECO-EFFI final report is the result of a project implemented in cooperation with Turku University of Applied Sciences, VTT, ABB Marine and Turbocharging Oy, Deltamarin Oy and Napa Oy. Turku University of Applied Sciences’ role in ECO-EFFI is to create basis for a transparent, measurable and comparable environmental performance indicator system for shipbuilding and ship recycling yards.

Three shipyard types – new building shipyards, repair and maintenance yards and dismantling yards – were picked out as requiring their own environmental indexes and their operations with the most significant environmental effects were identified. The need for a coherent and comparable environmental index in shipbuilding and especially in ship dismantling on an international level became clear. Furthermore, a binding regulation mechanism is necessary in order to have all countries and shipyards abide by them.