CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference on Sustainable and Safe Passenger Ships
4th of March 2020, Athens
About the Conference
The rapid growth of passenger ships over the last twenty years in the travel and tourism industry prompted cruise lines and ferries operators to build ever more innovative ships to cater for the diverse needs of a growing number of passengers. This has including ever increasing size of vessels to benefit from the economy of scale, small vessels specializing in coastal and short-trip transportation and vessels capable of itineraries to a greater range of destinations including environmentally sensitive areas.
The need to balance economic and environmental efficiency with increased passengers expectations of comfort and on-board amenities, along with improved passenger and crew safety, brings new challenges for those involved in the design, construction and operation of today’s passenger vessel.
Topics
To further investigate this aspect of the industry, RINA and HIMT invite papers from naval architects, class societies, operators, researchers, and builders on all related topics, including:
- Novel designs aiming at greener and smarter ships.
- Safety issues and risk control including damage stability, fire safety, evacuation and safe return to port.
- Smart technologies for efficient operations.
- Innovative powering and propulsion solutions (e.g. hybrid systems, cold-ironing, batteries, fuel cells).
- Enhancing port-ship interaction.
- Managing environmental impact with emphasis at air emissions.
- Designing for reducing noise and vibrations for passenger comfort.
- Sustainable short-sea and coastal transportation.
- Emergency response and lessons learnt for recent accidents.
- Advanced power management onboard.
- Supporting transportation and communication of island inhabitants with mainland.
- Updating the legislation for the operation of passenger ship.
Paper Submission
Persons interested to present their work in the Conference should submit for review their manuscript according to the timetable shown below:
- 24th of October 2019: Submission of abstract
- 14th of November 2019: Notification about abstract acceptance
- 20th of December 2019: Submission of full-length paper
- 20th of January 2020: Notification about full-length paper acceptance
In the first stage, an abstract of 300 to 400 words is requested to be submitted in WORD & PDF format (preferably through email info@elint.org.gr).
4 March 2020 |
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08:15 09:00 |
Registration |
09:00 09:25 |
Welcome & Opening AddressesM. Mantzafos, Hellenic Institute of Marine Technology |
09:25 09:45 |
Keynote SpeechChair: M. Mantzafos, H.I.M.T. President Fuel Cell Concept use on Cruise Ships |
09:45 11:30 |
Session 1Moderator: Gr. Grigoropoulos, H.I.M.T. General Secretary Sewol Ferry Capsizing And Flooding Stability of Ro-Pax Ships in European Waters: Solas 2020 and the Stockholm Vibration and Noise Investigation on Cruise Vessel: A Challenging Case of Wide Engineering Consultancy |
11:30 12:00 |
Coffee break |
12:00 13:45 |
Session 2Moderator: P. Yannoulis, OCEANKING Technical & Trading S.A. Parametric Design and Hydrodynamic Optimization of a Battery-Driven Fast Catamaran Vessel Damen Air Cavity System for Sustainable Passenger Ships Assessment of the Minimum Speed Requirements in Safe Return to Port Investigating the Perspectives of Battery Technology in Electrified Vessels |
13:45 14:45 |
Lunch break |
14:45 16:00 |
Session 3Moderator: K. Politis, University of West Attica The Use of IMO Life Safety Criteria in Alternative Cruise Ship Design Modern Trends in Ship Evacuation A Critical Review of the Evacuation Process due to Fire or Flooding from Cruise Vessels and Large RoPax Vessels and the future Challenges and Developments |
16:00 16:50 |
Session 4Moderator: N. Themelis, National Technical University of Athens Damage Stability of River Cruisers: A Case for Harmonization of International Regulations River and River-Sea Cruise Passenger Ships. Operation Experience, Prognosis and Novel Designs |
16:50 17:40 |
Session 5Moderator: Th. Perdikaris, C.T.E. Perdikaris Retrofit of A Ro-Ro Passenger Ferry to Operate on LNG Fuel: A Greener and Safe Solution for Short-Sea Transportation LNG-Powered Cruise Ships: Market Experience and Modern Engine Technologies |
CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE |