EEDI regulation for new ships (MEPC.212(63)) concern the limitation of toxic gas emissions by ship operation. In view of this regulation it is urgent to look holistically into integrated ship design and operational environments and implement multi-objective optimisation procedures optimising ship’s powering while ensuring safe ship operation; at the same time the right balance between ship’s efficiency and economy, safety and greenness is to be achieved.

To this end, a consortium was put together representing the whole spectrum of stakeholders in the European maritime industry and with superior expertise and scientific know-how in hydrodynamic tools development, validation of software tools, experimental techniques and expertise in ship design and international maritime rule making.

More than 20 participants from entire marine fraternity & 12 Advisory committee (AC) members formed the SHOPERA consortium. IRS acted as one of the AC members and participated in the benchmark studies conducted by SHOPERA.

For more details please visit http://shopera.org/