Energy audit structure dedicated to fishing cutters operating at the Baltic Sea
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Marcin Szczepanek [1] ; Przemysław Rajewski [1]
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[1] Maritime University of Szczecin
Maritime University of Szczecin
Szczecin, Polonia
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- Localización: Maritime Transport'14 / coord. por Francisco Javier Martínez de Osés, Marcella Castells Sanabra, 2014, ISBN 978-84-9880-483-6, págs. 615-631
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Fishing limits, necessity to cope with competitive fishermen of other countries, the lack of financial resources to purchase modern vessels have caused that more than 30% of the Polish fishing vessels operating at the Baltic Sea were withdrawn from operation between 2003 and 2012. Uncoordinated modernizations of the fishing cutters prevent from comparing the obtained results. A research team of the Maritime University of Szczecin gathered opinions of the shipowners regarding the effects of the modernizations performed and conducted research which shall constitute the grounds to develop optimal directions for modernization and operation of the fishing vessels. Commencing on 2013, commercial vessels have been obliged to implement the SEEMP. Development of energy efficiency audit programme, dedicated for this specific vessels’ group, will be practical to improve energy efficiency during fishing vessels’ operation. The idea to carry out an audit is to identify solutions, which would reduce energy inputs for vessels’ operation, and present them to fishermen starting from the simplest ones which do not require funding to more complex requiring considerable financial investment, but improving significantly the energy efficiency of vessels as well as the consequent competitiveness. This paper presents a proposal of energy audit developed for the Polish fishing fleet at the Baltic Sea.
