Autonomous ships for container shipping in the Arctic routes

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作者：

Munim, Ziaul Haque ^{[1
]}

Saha, Rana ^{[1
]}

Schøyen, Halvor ^{[1
]}

Ng, Adolf K. Y. ^{[2
]}

Notteboom, Theo E. ^{[3
,4
]}

机构：

[1] Faculty of Technology, Natural and Maritime Sciences, University of South-Eastern Norway, Horten, Norway

[2] Division of Business and Management, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, Zhuhai, China

[3] Maritime Institute, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

[4] Antwerp Maritime Academy, Antwerp, Belgium

来源：

Journal of Marine Science and Technology (Japan) | 2022年 / 27卷 / 01期

关键词：

Competition - Autonomous vehicles - Environmental protection - Containers - Decision making;

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摘要：

This study investigates the competitiveness of various autonomous ship categories for container shipping in the Arctic route. We propose a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) framework using four ship categories as alternatives and eight criteria for competitiveness evaluation. We analyse collected data using the Best–Worst Method (BWM), one of the recently developed MCDM methods. The findings reveal that operating expenses, navigation aspects, and environmental protection are the three most important criteria for deploying autonomous ships in the Arctic route. Among the three investigated autonomous ships alternatives, the semi-autonomous ship operated from a shore control centre (SCC) is prioritized for Arctic shipping in the foreseeable future, when benchmarked against the conventional ship. The SCC-controlled semi-autonomous ship alternative is competitive in the majority of the considered criteria including operating expenses, capital expenses, navigation, ship-shore and ship–ship communication, search and rescue, and environmental protection. © 2021, The Author(s).

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