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concern ship operators – airlines do not have similar problems. Full integration of technical and commercial requirements to optimise ship voyages and
6. “A Short History of Marine Engineering”. E C Smith. Cambridge University Press, 1937.
port
performance each day to take account of internal and external conditions (including weather and fuel prices) is now within reach.
But perhaps the most pervasive recent technical influence has been the ever increasing regulatory demands and standards. Coordinated by the International Maritime Organisation,
the intent
agreement before states, e.g.
societies, concerned with machinery
implementation by individual
ballast water treatment. Classification the integrity of hull and
systems, have expanded in number. The
International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) tries to coordinate technical requirements through such means as Common Structural Rules for tankers. But the marine industries have for historical reasons had more fragmented regulatory regimes than land based national industries, so adoption of readily applicable best practice takes
time. So perhaps like what the marine
industries need in the next decades is to focus enabling technologies on getting the best out of well established concepts
bulk carriers and diesel engines and environmental impacts of ships, by
improving operational efficiency and mitigating potential hazardous
but
without jeopardising the technical and economic gains of the last 150 years, i.e. optimising benefit-cost ratios, not purely in monetary terms. The professional institutions have a continuing role in discussing and disseminating the best ways
forward, largely SOURCES
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