The shipping industry has of late been faced with "Tidal Waves" of environmental regulations and strict compliance requirements. These regulations extend not only to vessels while at sea, but also while staying in ports. Ships burn diesel to run their auxiliary engines to produce power for hotelling, loading and unloading activities while onshore. Shore power avails itself as a potential substitute and a way to partially mitigate the strict and costly regulation requirements. A breakthrough in International standards on OPS, the lack of which has been a draw back in OPS implementation, was...
The shipping industry has of late been faced with "Tidal Waves" of environmental regulations and strict compliance requirements. These regulations ext...