The challenges faced by the Malaysian shipyard industry had led to the failure of local shipyards in catering to the demand of ship owners. The shipyard industry had recorded the least contribution (1.0%) to the world shipbuilding order book and had caused inconsistencies in the Malaysian shipbuilding ship repair (SBSR) industry’s demand and supply market. The objectives of this study had been to identify the factors that had contributed to the challenges faced by the shipyard industry in Malaysia, and to rank them according to their priorities. The factors of these challenges had been identified by using the cause-and-effect analysis method and were further illustrated in the form of an Ishikawa diagram. Subsequently, an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method was applied to determine the weightage of the priorities. The results had shown that ‘Market’ (41.66%) had been the most challenging aspect faced by the shipyard industry in Malaysia from all the five factors studied. As such, this research would help shipyard organisations to effectively prioritise these challenging factors as a way of sustaining their businesses and affecting the economic contribution from the shipyard industry.

In recent years, much interest has been devoted to bio-fuels because of their beneficial effects on environment, agriculture and economic development. Raw vegetable oil – a kind of bio-fuels, still exits many downsides, is potential renewable fuel replaced for ever-exhausted fossil fuel. In this report, vegetable oil which is available in the South of Vietnam such as raw coconut oil is studied by heating up different temperature with the aim at decreasing its high viscosity and density and meeting the fuel requirements. The experiments are conducted on heated coconut oil (HCO) and fossil diesel oil (DO) using an 80hp of small marine diesel engine. The results of engine performance as using DO and HCO included engine power (Ne), specific fuel consumption (SFC), thermal efficiency (TE), emission characteristics such as carbon monoxide (CO), unburned hydrocarbon (HC), smoke, nitrogen oxides (NOx) at internal feature are measured. The experiment results show higher SFC, CO, HC and smoke emissions, and lower TE, and NOx emissions for HCO with respect to DO. In addition, this study also reveals that, 1000C of HCO is said to be the most suitable heating temperature as getting the engine performance equals to DO.

Recently, Oil spill incidents from maritime activities and port operation have been causing the serious ocean environment pollution, these problems are said to be the negative effects on the natural environment, social economy, marine species, and human health. Due to the high costs of treating oil spills and oil slick in comparison with a low-income country like Vietnam, many incidents related to the oil spill and oil slick have not been thoroughly processed. Cellulose components from Vietnamese agricultural residues used to produce the absorbent materials are one of the most urgent issues and this is the research object of this work. In this study, two types of structural lengths of cellulose added into PU matrix foam are used to measure how much crude oil, fuel oil, diesel oil and kerosene can be absorbed. The absorbent materials are designed after adding cellulose with 5%, 15%, 25% of mass, respectively. The achieved results show that the oil absorption capacity of PU-cellulose implemented 5% cellulose with 500μm of cellulose structure length and 25% cellulose with 3000μm of cellulose structure length are highest for crude oil. These study results from this work provide a reasonable price for the protection of the marine environment in the strategies of recovery and treatment of oil spill and oil slick on the seawater surface.

Physical smothering in a long time and toxic components due to the oil spill and oil slick disasters can not only affect directly, very seriously marine creatures, plants and life of other animals but also they pollute the air environment and reduce the health of human. Some activities such as the waterway accidents, the tanker or bilge discharges, and the acts of wanton vandalism are the main causes that pollute the ocean environment. The regulations of many countries such as the prevention of oil spill, reducing maximally the effects of the oil spill, and speeding up the oil spill degradation are to aim at treating and recovering fast, efficiently oil spills and oil slicks. The selection of suitable techniques for oil spill recovery and treatment depends on many factors such as the spilled oil volume, oil type, weather conditions (wind velocity), sea conditions (current velocity and wave height), cost and the fact situations of each country. In this paper, four methods used for oil spill recovery including physical-, chemical-, thermal-, and biodegradation method are introduced. The structure of mechanical devices including booms, skimmers and absorbent materials, the properties of chemicals such as dispersants and solidifies, the methods based on the thermal technologies, the major microorganisms for oil degradation for oil spill recovery, treatment and cleanup are analyzed. Each mentioned method also shows the advantages and disadvantages, as well as its applicability. The selection of suitable method for oil spill recovery purpose on the basis of the available equipment and techniques must be ensure that the collected oil spill volume is the largest, the period of time for recovery process is the shortest, aiming at minimizing the negative effects on the human, marine ecosystem, social economy.

Systematical classification of accident factors is very important to take appropriate countermeasures to reduce accidents. The aim of this study is to classify capsizing and sinking factors so as to propose a checklist which could be used to analyze future accidents. The scope is investigation reports of capsizing and sinking accidents published by Japan Transport Safety Board between 2008 and March 2017. The investigation reports were surveyed in order to extract all factors involved in the accidents. Then the factors were categorized into eight classified factors according to their characteristics and a checklist for analyzing capsizing and sinking accidents was proposed. The checklist was applied to capsizing and sinking accidents surveyed in this study and it was revealed that refraining from “navigation in bad weather” is the most effective countermeasure for capsizing and sinking. It was also revealed that “flooding,” whose involvement was the highest for both capsizing and sinking, is the factor which needs countermeasures the most during navigation. It is concluded that accident analyses could be facilitated by applying the proposed checklist to future accidents.

The purpose of this study is to analyze outsourcing ship management function at Turkish shipowning companies and Turkish shipowners’ attitudes towards third party ship management companies. A survey method was used for the study. Based on the factors collected both from literature review and interviews, a questionnaire was conducted through Turkish shipowners. The results of the study have revealed that big portion of Turkish shipowners are not willing to give the management of their vessels to third party ship management companies. This study will help researchers and ship managers to understand Turkish shipowners’ attitudes towards ship management companies and the root of shipowners’ behaviors about ship management companies. This study makes contributions to the limited literature on ship management and third party ship management by analyzing shipowners’ attitudes towards third party ship management companies in Turkey.

The aim of this paper is to describe a strategy to provide improved accuracy of primary navigation parameters to the Indian regional Navigational satellites. The broadcast parameters of the Navic satellites can be classified under two category, one is the validity period of 7200s called long period normal sets and second one is the validity period of 900s called short period contingency sets of primary navigation parameters. The Navic satellite constellation works with minimum number of synchronous satellites to provide the best user solution within India and boundaries. Thus the outage of any one or more satellites will increase the Dilution of Precision (DOP) and degrades the user solution for any sudden anomalous behaviour of the measurements. This anomalous behaviour (called events) arises due to on-board frequency variations, frequent planned Station Keeping (SK) operations because of synchronous orbits, IRNSS system time scale switch-over or the combination of events. In loop back the broadcast parameters accuracy was continuously monitored through Line of Sight (LOS) range error from the observed IRNSS ground reference stations range measurements. In begin conditions the Least square (Lsq) based solutions were accurate and the observed LOS error were as expected. But post the occurrence of any event, the accumulation of batch data starts freshly for least square solution. The obtained Lsq based solution was inaccurate due to lack of data under many circumstances. During the events occurrence to minimize the outage duration of the satellite contingency sets were generated using continuously running Kalman Filter based near real time estimation using one-way measurements. But the filter estimated state may not be optimum at the particular epoch. Hence a strategy of forward and backward approach (FBF) was adopted just before parameter uplink through sequential (KF) for adaptation of real behaviours of the measurements to providing an improved optimal solution.