Title:
ESTABLISHMENT OF SYSTEMATIC GREEN SHIP DEVELOPMENT PROCESS BY INTERPRETATIVE STRUCTURAL MODEL

Authors:
Ching-Kuei Kao, Meng-Zhen Gui, Yang Zhong, Tang-Hsien Chang, Peng-Jung Lin, China

Abstract:

With the continuous development of the global economy, port and shipping logistics occupy an important position in today’s international trade. Consequently, the greenhouse gases emitted by ships also cause serious pollution in the ecological environment. In the face of such situation, the International Maritime Organization has formulated relevant conventions to prevent and control the pollution caused by ship operations, navigation, and dismantling. However, the implementation of these conventions poses serious challenges to China’s shipbuilding and shipping industries. Therefore, the green ship industry is one of the important directions for the transformation and upgrading of China’s shipbuilding industry. In this paper, 20 green ship indicators are summarized on the basis of the characteristics of a ship’s life cycle stages. The concurrent engineering concept is used in this study to shorten the R&D cycle time of green ships effectively. Then, the interpretative structural model (ISM) is applied to decompose and reorganize the green ship indicators in the various stages of the original ship life cycle. Finally, the five stages of green ship development are established on the basis of the ISM analysis results, which can provide the shipping company as reference for the development of green ships to promote the environmental protection of ports and oceans and assist the sustainable development of port and shipping logistics.