Digitalisation in a Maritime Circular Economy

Henrik Hvid Jensen (), Maj Munch Andersen (), Anh Dao (), Mikael Lind (), Vikas Pandey (), Godha Bapuji (), Moritz Petersen (), Bettina Hobson (), Wolfgang Lehmacher () and Attila Turos ()
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Henrik Hvid Jensen: e.circular ApS
Maj Munch Andersen: University of Copenhagen
Anh Dao: e.circular ApS
Mikael Lind: Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) and Chalmers University of Technology
Vikas Pandey: DevopsInternational B.V
Godha Bapuji: Women in Crisis Response LLC
Moritz Petersen: Kuehne Logistics University
Bettina Hobson: Circular & Sustainable Supply Chain Advisor
Wolfgang Lehmacher: Industrial Innovation Partners, Anchor Group
Attila Turos: 7 Chapters of Circularity

A chapter in Maritime Informatics, 2021, pp 17-37 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The increased strain on the earth’s resources may be mitigated by adopting the principles of the circular economy, particularly if these can be aligned with digital opportunities. The circular economy principles of redesigning the economic system to be restorative and regenerative are highly relevant to the maritime sector. A lot of the means used for sea transport and consequential port visits and cargo operations utilise physical infrastructures that both need to be utilised with high efficiency and should be reused as a whole or by its components in the secondary market. Reusing materials and securing high utilisation of physical infrastructures requires strong digital capabilities to underpin the circular economy business models, store the properties, and track the use of physical infrastructures and other maritime assets. In this chapter, a framework for a digital foundation that can support a maritime circular economy is introduced and exemplified by the circular material passport and the material pool. As the maritime industry increasingly captures the properties of used material for the ships, equipment, and infrastructures necessary to fulfil sea transport as part of digitalisation, the sector seems to have good opportunities to make the move towards a digitally supported competitive maritime circular economy that can both enhance and be guided by developments in maritime informatics.

Keywords: Circular economy; Digital backbone; Maritime sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-72785-7_2

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