Feature 7 | Turkish reseArch model


A scientific approach to select green repair locations


A research and consultancy project in Turkey has come up with a new decision-making method for selecting the best environmentally friendly locations for shiprepair yard investments.


D


eciding on the location for a new shiprepair yard is a very difficult and complex


process. It is, moreover, influenced by various environmental, social and technical


factors. For example the


origin and destination of cargo flows, and the position of key shipping lanes, are very important when selecting environmentally friendly shiprepair yard locations in which to invest. Shipping lines want to maximise the time their vessels are operational and so world transportation patterns, the frequency-density-intensity of shipping routes, terminals and ports are critical in the shiprepair yard location selection procedure. The shiprepair yard location selection


• the identification of shiprepair yard site selection criteria


decision process can be divided into four main phases, as following:


• the generation of shiprepair yard site alternatives


• the analysis of shiprepair yard site alternatives according to defined


• the evaluation and selection among shiprepair yard alternatives.


criteria The method presented in this article


is intended to be helpful to investors, managers, consultants and above all governmental agencies for making their decisions appropriately and precisely. Within the method are two stages, with 15 steps in total, including twelve steps within the first stage. The first ten steps in the initial stage are: finding all the names of the territories, cities and areas. that the shiprepair yard could be located; finding the contact details of the local authority government in these locations; setting up appointments with the key people; preparing a detailed booklet


A version of the research method identified four environmentally frtiendly locations for ship repair yards in Turkey.


including as much as information as possible about location selection factors such as transportation, energy supply, environmental status; preparing visit protocols for the technical visit teams; arranging optimum travel plans; deciding the team members and scheduling the technical visits; executing the visits and preparing reports for all regions; marking the investigated regions on a map, including preferably some 360degs panoramic photographs; and marking the candidate locations in different colours for different sectors or sub sectors - for instance, if there are new shipbuilding activities nearby the candidate locations, than these should be clearly mentioned. The eleventh step involves building


up the multi-criteria decision making model


for defined factors and their


alternatives while the twelfth step is running the model and gathering together a report of the results including environmental


sensitivity analysis.


Continuous Multi-Attribute Risk, Criterium DecisionPlus, ERGO, Expert Choice, HIVIEW, Logical Decisions, POLICY PC, Web-HIPRE, WINPRE are some of the software tools that


can be used during the execution of this procedure. In the proposed method there are three


steps at the second stage. Tese are cross checking the facility’s requirements in terms of capacity and other factors; the reporting of the final ranking including all detailed information; and the final reporting for investment purposes. Tis method is intended to be helpful


in selecting environmentally friendly shiprepair yard locations in a correct and systematic manner. In a Turkish project, called TURKTERMAP, a version of this method was adopted by a team of researchers, consultants and experts. In this Turkish research and development consultancy study, more than 25 candidate locations in the Aegean region, 40 in the Mediterranean, 30 in Marmara and 50 in the Black Sea were investigated in detail. Using this method four broad locations were recommended as environmental friendly shiprepair yard sites for investment in Turkey. SCRT


This article is based on a paper submitted by Dr. Burak Omer Saracoglu, Phd, Institute of Science and Technology, Turkey.


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