GreenShipping - Green Ship Routing and Scheduling

Christos A. Kontovas has recently been awarded a highly competitive Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG) by he European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The grant will support execution of a 2-year project on Green Maritime Logistics.
The project’s main innovation is attributed to the synthesis of its two main pillars, (a) maritime logistics research (especially related to ship outing and scheduling problems) and (b) emissions-related research. . This is an area of paramount importance for international shipping and will be even more so in the future. The proposed research would enhance the state of the art in this area by investigating possible reformulations of existing models so as to incorporate emissions considerations and by developing new models altogether that explicitly include the emissions dimension.
A key aspect of the project concerns the link of the logistics/emissions research to the relative regulatory background and the potential policy implications.