Reports
The reports and publications below can either be ordered from us directly or from Fritzes/Allmänna förlaget.
If the publications or reports are marked with * they can be ordered from us directly by completion of the order form or by mail:
MariTerm AB, Box 12037, SE 402 41 Göteborg, Sweden,
tel. +46 31 122030
If the publications or reports are marked with ** they are only available from:
Fritzes / Allmänna
förlaget, Kundtjänst, SE 106 47 Stockholm,
Sweden,
tel. +46 8 6909090
If you are interested in any of our reports or publications please complete the order form and send it to us.
Cargo care *
Loading and securing of cargo to increase delivery quality
First English edition
According to the supplement to the new IMDG code (Amdt. 30-00); "all persons involved in the transport or packaging of cargo in Cargo Transport Units (CTUs) should receive training on safe packing of cargo in CTUs". The contennts of the Cargo Care handbook follow the recommendations in the IMDG code for such training.
MariTerm AB 2002, 242 pages. ISBN 91-972346-5-6
Authors: Peter Andersson, Leif Ronge
Order no 109
Future short sea cargo ferry
systems, market study. **
The Swedish Transport and Communication Research Board. Report no 1997
: 17, 149 pages. ISBN 91-88868-39-7
Authors: Johan Näreskog, Torbjörn Rydbergh, Anders Sjöbris
Order no 112
Coastal and Short Sea Shipping,
market study. *
MariTerm AB 1996, 69 pages. ISBN 91-972346-4-8
Author: Anders Sjöbris
Order no 111
Ship fire safety engineering
Lund University 1995, 150 pages. ISSN 1102-8246
Author: Johan Wikman
Performance based fire safety regulations
for ships *
Based on Modern Methods for Consequence and Risk analyses.
MariTerm AB 1994, 34 pages. ISBN 91-972346-0-5
Authors: Johan Wikman, Peter Andersson, Sven-Erik Magnusson
Order no 110
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Multimodal shortsea transport Coastal Super highway
Indespensible and free link in the European transport network
Delft University Press 1994, 194 pages. ISBN 90-407-1009-0
Authors: N. Wijnolst, A. Sjöbris, C. Peeters, A. Verbeke, E. Declercq,
T. J. N. Schmitter
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Emissions- och energivärderingsprinciper för
transportsystem **
Emission and energy evaluation principles for transport systems
In Swedish with summary in English.
The Swedish Transport and Communication Research Board. Report no 1994
: 9, 51 pages. ISBN 91-88370-67-4
Authors: Anders Sjöbris, Eje Flodström
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Miljöeffekter av transportmedelsval för godstransporter
Environmental effects of transfer of goods between modes of transport
In Swedish with summary in English.
The Swedish Transport and Communication Research Board. Report no 1994
: 6, 292 pages. ISBN 91-88370-65-8
Authors: Göran Demker, Eje Flodström, Anders Sjöbris,
Morgan Williamsson
Det finns en ny version:
Environmental assessment of freight
transportation
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A fire safety survey of passenger vessels
accomodations *
MariTerm AB 1993, 60 pages. ISBN 91-630-1809-8
Authors: Peter Andersson, Harry, Robertsson, Johan Wikman
Order no 108
Innovation in shortsea shipping: Self-loading and -unloading
unitload shipsystems
S-curve in the handling of unitloads
Delf University Press 1993, 260 pages. ISBN 90-6275-943-2
Authors: N. Wijnolst, H. B. van der Hoeven, C. J. Kleiwegt, A. Sjöbris
Coastal and shortsea shipping *
Technical feasibility study
MariTerm AB 1993 ( TFB report 1993 : 9 ), 230 pages. ISBN 91-88370-42-9
Author: Anders Sjöbris
Order no 107
Exhaust gas emissions from sea transportation *
MariTerm AB 1993 ( TFB report 1993 : 1 ), 230 pages. ISBN 91-88370-34-8
Authors: Anders Alexandersson, Eje Flodström, Rolf Öberg,
Peter Stålberg
Order no 106
Miljöpåverkan från fritidsbåtar,
fiske och arbetsfartyg **
Environmental effects from leisure- fishing and workboats
In Swedish
Statens Naturvårdsverk 1992 Report no. 3993, 23 pages.
ISBN 91-620-3993-8
Author: Anders Alexandersson
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Mekaniserad förtöjning. Förstudie **
Mechanized mooring. Pilot study
In Swedish
Transportforskningsberedningen 1990, 58 pages
Author: Harry Robertsson
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Integrering av lastenheter mellan järnväg
och sjöfart. Förstudie **
Integration of cargo units between railway and shipping. Preliminary
study
In Swedish with summary in English.
Transportforskningsberedningen 1990, 56 pages. ISSN 0283-9105
Author: Anders Sjöbris
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Resursutnyttjande i svensk hamn- och stuveriverksamhet **
Utilization of resources in Swedish ports and stevedoring companies
In Swedish with summary in English.
Transportforskningsberedningen 1989, 168 pages. ISBN 91-87246-40-6
Authors: Leif Ronge, Peter Stålberg
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Skogsindustrins system transporter *
Distribution systems for forest industry
In Swedish with summary in English.
Transportforskningsberedningen 1988, 186 pages + annexes. ISBN
91-87-246-35-X
Authors: Anders Sjöbris, Michael Kock
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Carriage of bulk grain in restricted
waters *
MariTerm AB 1986, 135 pages
Authors: Peter Andersson, Michael Kock, Anders Sjöbris, Roger
Sundström
Order no 105
Optimum safety factors for securing
of cargo on board ships *
MariTerm AB 1986, 135 pages
Authors: Peter Andersson, Michael Kock, Anders Sjöbris
Order no 104
Road trailer suitable for sea transportation *
MariTerm AB 1984, 297 pages
Authors: Peter Andersson, Martti Niilekselä, Anders Sjöbris
Order no 103
Safe stowage and securing of cargo
on board ships **
MariTerm AB 1982, 361 pages.
Authors: Peter Andersson, Björn Allenström, Martti Niilekselä
Order no 101
Environmental assessment of freight
transportation
MariTerm AB 1998. 60 pages.
Author: Eje Flodström
Order no 114
COASTAL AND SHORT SEA SHIPPING.
TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY STUDY.
TFB Report 1993:9
Order no 107
MariTerm AB 1993. 256 pages.
Author: Anders Sjöbris
Shipping has to a large extent been forced out of the market by land
transports as regards domestic transports of unitized and general cargo.
The aim of the project has been to investigate whether it is possible to
create a transport system based on shipping as main transport mode that
can compete with land transports. In this work a complete door-to-door
transport system has been designed for coastal and shortsea traffic. An
essential part of the system is creating a truck- or trainborne distribution
system and a completely mechanized port terminal. A ship has been designed
for the system, manned by a minimum crew and handling all units in a fully
automatic manner from their positions onboard the vessel to the terminal
and vice versa. The design work shows that the system is fully feasible
with today's techniques. A cost analysis shows that the competitiveness
versus land transports is considerably strengthened, mainly due to substantially
reduced handling costs. The main conclusion is that shipping constitutes
a non-utilized transport resource for this type of goods, and infrastructural
costs are extremely low.
Price: SEK 450
A FIRE SAFETY SURVEY OF PASSENGER VESSELS' ACCOMMODATIONS
Order no 108
MariTerm 1993. 60 pages.
Authors: Peter Andersson, Harry Robertsson, Johan Wikman
A fire in a ship's accommodation may have serious results for passengers and crew. Even a limited fire often leads to severe material damage. It is therefore important to investigate the origins of fire and how materials used affect the fire process. The aim of the project presented in this report has been to take an inventory of materials used today in passenger vessels' accommodations in order to provide a basis for continued work on fire safety onboard.
The report describes different causes of fire, compares fire properties of different materials, presents principles of internal fire protection and discusses factors affecting the choice of materials. It concludes with an assessment of the materials properties needed to be known in order to provide a better analysis of fire risks and processes.
Price: SEK 300 (+postage & packing)
Prestudy: PERFORMANCE BASED FIRE SAFETY REGULATIONS
FOR SHIPS
Based on Modern Methods for Consequence and Risk Analysis
Order no 110
Lund University - MariTerm AB 1994. 34 pages
Authors: Johan Wikman, Peter Andersson, Sven Erik Magnusson
ISBN: 91-972346-0-5
The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has decided to make a comprehensive review of the present Chapter II-2 "Construction -fire protection, fire detection and fire extinction" of the SOLAS convention. This is done as a consequence of the fact that the chapter does not in a simple and rational way include all of the following items:
- determination of the level of safety and thereby obtaining a
uniform level between different ships,
- the possibility of introducing new types of ships,
- the possibility of finding cost-effective solutions,
- the possibility of using risk analysis in order to design the
fire safety measures of the ship according to the specific fire hazards
of an individual ship.
When making the review it is possible to base the new chapter on either Prescriptive Regulations or Performance Based Regulations. The report describes the different approaches and their advantages and disadvantages, and a survey of research under progress in the area both on ships and buildings is presented. It concludes with a description of a possible design of a new chapter II-2 based on performance requirements, and a procedure of introduction.
Price: SEK 250
COASTAL AND SHORT SEA SHIPPING,
MARKET STUDY
Order no 111
MariTerm AB 1996. 69 pages.
Author: Anders Sjöbris
Previous studies have shown a potential of utilising the sea transportation
as a complement to land transports. In order to realise this the sea transportation
concept should be developed to suit an extended variety of cargo categories.
The aim of this study has been to find out the interest of the shippers
to utilise short sea shipping at a larger extent if it would be more available.
The availability would be given by a high-frequency service to a port near
by the shipper.
The study is built up on interviews with the shippers to find out their
demand for transports, the cost of their transports and their interest
in using sea transportation as an alternative transport mode.
A sea transport system is built up on the information obtained from
the shippers. A total potential interest of about 1,7 million tons
was received and of this about 1,45 million tons were used in a short sea
shipping simulation. Through the simulation the frequency to each port
and the total cost for the transportation of the given cargo to its destination
were acquired.
The report shows that utilising sea transportation is very cost effective
for both the shipper and the state. The latter in respect to the acquisition
of high transport capacity with a minimum of investments in infrastructure
and a minimum of damage to the environment.
Price: SEK 250
ENERGY AND EMISSION FACTORS FOR SHIPS IN OPERATION
Order no 113
MariTerm AB 1997. 27 pages
Author: Eje Flodström
Waterborne transport is generally considered to be the most energy efficient mode of transportation to a large extent due to the ability to move large quantities. Energy efficiency is a primary function in the development of an environmentally friendly and sustainable transportation system.
Emissions and energy consumption for waterborne transportation is a fairly new research area. A number of efforts have been done to establish representative emission- and energy factors for waterborne transport. Even though widely quoted, the models used have some weaknesses especially from the point of view of securing the data.
This research project is aimed at providing statistical data on the operation of ships aimed at the calculation of energy consumption and emissions.
The information was collected through a questionnaire sent out to ship operators and owners. Additional information was collected from ships registers. The resulting database was analysed and compared with previously used models for the calculation of energy consumption and emission for each ship.
The results generally confirm that previously used models give a fair figure of the environmental characteristics of ships. However, the response of the questionnaire was unexpectedly low why the volume of the database in relation to the number of types of vessels must be considered as poor.
Price: SEK 200
FUTURE SHORT SEA CARGO FERRY SYSTEMS
Order no 112
MariTerm AB 1997. 149 pages.
Authors: Anders Sjöbris, Johan Näreskog, Torbjörn Rydbergh
The development of high speed vessels in sea transportation is the background for this report. The consequences of high speed vessels are discussed regarding the gain in logistics, freight costs and environmental aspects.Increased cargo flows in Europe is focusing the discussion on sea transportation as a major mean to solve the problem of congested roads and railways. It is well known that sea transportation is cost efficient.This report is aimed to answer the question if high frequency ferry operation, including high speed vessels, can solve the problem of service level and transport time consumption in a competitive way and with reasonable environmental impacts. The project is concentrated on showing the costs and environmental effects of high speed RoRo cargo vessels in ferry service operation.The method used to analyse the costs and performance for RoRo cargo ships in ferry operation have been done from a comparison of different ship designs used on five routes with crossing distances from 64 to 536 NM. On each route three to five different ship designs in speeds between 10 to 35 knots all with the same annual transport capacity have been designed with a parametric design tool. The different designs have been used for an environmental and economic evaluation including variations of different costs using scenarios with costs from the half of today to the double.For shorter sea transport systems and in a competition with other shipping systems, it is cost efficient to shorten transit times using a high service level and high speed. However speeds over 30 knots are not used by any of the most cost efficient designs in this study. It is important to combine frequency and speed to perform a competitive sea transport with short total transit times. The short time between departures for a ferry service is of the same importance as high speed.
Price: SEK 400
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION
Order no 114
MariTerm AB 1998. 60 pages.
Author: Eje Flodström
Strategic Environmental Assessments is needed in the future for the
determination of effects of both the development of transport flows and
technical developments of the transport modes. The politicians are also
interested in simulations and calculations of environmental effects from
shifting of cargo between transport modes.
This report is the result of a joint project between the Department
of Human and Economic Geography at the University of Gothenburg and MariTerm
AB. The work primarily assessed all goods movements in transport chains
and sorted them by the main mode of transport. The present energy and emissions
were determined for all individual types of transports which then was assigned
to the components in the transport chain. Future developments in transports
and technical developments has then been analysed and fed into the system.
Scenarios of possible changes of flows and different technical
developments has been tested and the results are presented.
This report is a short version in English of two reports in Swedish:
KFB report 1994:6 "Environmental Effects of Change of Transport Mode for
Goods Transportation"" and "Combining of Transport Modes" which was performed
as a commission for the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.
The aim of both studies is to investigate the environmental effects
of political measures to transfer goods from one transport mode to another.
To be able to calculate the environmental effects a method to follow
the transport chains has been developed. By defining the transport chains
with a main transport mode it has been possible to relate the emissions
to the different modes.
The main results are that the transferable volumes are limited and
even if a maximum volume is transferred, the positive environmental effects
are small compared to the effects of measures to reduce the emissions from
the vehicles.
Price: SEK 400
EXHAUST GAS EMISSIONS FROM SEA TRANSPORTATION
Order no 106
MariTerm AB 1993 (230 pages)
Authors: Anders Alexandersson, Eje Flodström, Rolf Öberg, Peter Stålberg
An extensive Swedish research project initiated and funded by the Swedish Transport Research Board and other national shipping and environmental authorities and organisations, has investigated the environmental impact of exhaust gas emissions from sea transportation.The report identifies the sources and types of exhaust gas emissions from shipping and describes factors influencing the specific emission levels. Emissions from different categories of sea transportation are related to emissions from other sources and the distribution of different types of emissions at sea and in ports is investigated.A detailed and extensive survey of existing exhaust cleaning techniques for different types of emissions is presented, with examples of possible marine applications. The consequences of such applications and the costs involved are also analysed.
Chapter headings:
CARRIAGE OF BULK GRAIN IN RESTRICTED WATERS
Order no 105
The report discusses rules for transport of grain in bulk. Existing
international rules, which chiefly also apply for transports in the Baltic
area, have primarily been worked out according to proposals from the big
grain exporting countries, USA, Canada and Australia. As basic material
when setting up the rules, large bulk ships in ocean-going traffic have
been used.Based on: - More liberal, national rules for grain transports
in restricted areas along the US/Canadian coasts, - the expected, smaller
shift angle in restricted waters in relations to that of the oceans, -
the relatively few incidents and accidents recorded with grain carrying
ships in restricted waters.More liberal rules than the international ones
have been proposed for transport of bulk grain in the Baltic area, including
the Skagerrak.These rules mean that a free grain surface is assumed to
shift maximum 12 degrees in the Baltic, instead of 15/25 degrees according
to the international rules. However, the international stability requirements
after a grain shift, are proposed to remain unchanged.Criteria for grain
securing arrangements have also been dealt with.
Price: SEK 350
MariTerm AB 1986 (156 pages)
OPTIMUM SAFETY FACTORS FOR SECURING OF CARGO ON BOARD SHIPS
Order no 104
MariTerm AB 1986 (135 pages)
This report presents an analysis of requirements and standards for securing equipment aboard ships and the level of the safety factor. Comparable rules and regulations are presented.These are: - Securing of containers according to classification societies. - Standards for lifting equipment.To determine the level of the safety factor for securing equipment, a method has been developed. According to this, the following are evaluated: - Acceleration affecting the cargo - Lashing force - The capacity of the lashingsThe acceleration has a probability level corresponding to the maximum value in 20 years of what will effect the cargo. The lashing force is determined by means of a calculation model using statistical input values.The capacity of the lashings has been determined by testing, also taking into account the time factor for the equipment in use.The result is presented with suitable test methods and safety factors for different types of lashing equipment.
Price: SEK 350
ROAD TRAILER SUITABLE FOR SEA TRANSPORTATION
Order no 103
MariTerm AB 1984 (297 pages)
When the winter storms begin in the North Sea, cargo and trailers on board trailer ships will suffer damage. The reason for this is insufficient securing of trailers to the ship and of the cargo on the trailer. This report analyzes the problems and offers proposals for measures to be taken for the safe securing of trailers. It also proposes how to minimize the cost of handling damage on trailers.The report contains a thorough investigation of international and national rules and regulations, affecting the design and the use of road trailers, and can, in this context, be used as reference literature.An important part of the result is a proposal for standardiza-tion of lashing points in trailers and on ships.The report contains the following main items: - The framework of regulations - Survey of products - Survey of damage and accidents - Specification of requirements - Suggested designs
Price:SEK 350
SECURING OF ROAD TRAILERS ON BOARD RO/RO SHIPS
Order no 102
MariTerm AB 1983 (142 pages)
A road trailer stowed on a Ro/Ro ship is difficult to describe in mathematical formulas. This report contains a complete description of a computer-based model with approximately 40 parameters, including ship, trailer and lashing parameters. The report also contains a large number of results from use of the model, as well as conclusions and recommendations for the establishment of international rules for lashing. The report has been supplied to IMO by the Swedish authorities.
Price: SEK 300
SAFE STOWAGE AND SECURING OF CARGO ON BOARD SHIPS
Order no 101
MariTerm AB 1982 (361 pages)
Shifting of cargo on board a ship can cause damage to the cargo and risk the safety of the ship. Due to some severe accidents in 1980 a study was undertaken, the purpose of which was to propose common rules for calculation of forces acting on the cargo, and also to propose how to establish a ship's manual for securing of the cargo. Swedish authorities have supplied IMO with the report as part of the Swedish work contribution to this field. The report comprises the following main items: - Surveys and stated conclusions of some accidents due to the shifting of cargo. - Mapping of rules and recommendations concerning the securing of cargo on board ships. - Calculations of accelerations compared for different classification societies. - Full-scale measurements of ship movements. - Analysis of material properties in different types of securing equipment. - Conclusion regarding occurring loads and required safety factor. - Survey of lashing forces for some types of goods. - Securing of road trailers on board Ro/Ro ships. This report that was published in 1982 as the first within this area is still a valuable source for those who wish to achieve a basic knowledge regarding stowage and securing of cargo onboard ships.
Price: SEK 400
