Environmental and economic pressure for cleaner shipping
The Baltic Sea is one of the busiest and most vulnerable seas. Shipping in the Baltic Sea is highly regulated and the industry is under pressure to meet the regulations. In addition, customers are increasingly interested in the environmental performance of shipping. The shipping industry in the region is also facing increasingly fierce competition. Thus, there is a need to produce more value with less resources, waste and pollution – i.e. a need for more eco-efficient operations and processes in the shipping industry.
Digital solutions enhancing eco-efficiency
ECOPRODIGI addressed both the environmental and economic challenges by increasing eco-efficiency at all stages of the vessel lifecycle from design and building to the use, maintenance, stowage as well as conversion processes. In practice, ECOPRODIGI did not only provide highly needed information about the key eco-inefficiencies of the industry but also concretely developed and piloted digital solutions to better measure, visualise and optimise the industry processes.
ECOPRODIGI also improved the capacity of the maritime industry actors to enhance eco-efficiency in their operations by providing training for the key actors and by designing a digitalisation road map for increasing eco-efficiency. As digitalisation remains largely unexploited in the maritime industry, ECOPRODIGI also strengthened the public support for digitalisation by providing policy workshops and recommendations.
Basic facts about ECOPRODIGI
The Lead Partner of the project was the Pan-European Institute of the University of Turku. Centrum Balticum Foundation was responsible for the communications of ECOPRODIGI.
Duration of the project: 10/2017-10/2020
Total budget: 4,243,492.11 €
European Regional Development Fund: 2,996,231.57 €
Norwegian funding: 141,125.00 €
Website: www.ecoprodigi.eu
Twitter: @ECOPRODIGI_BSR | #ECOPRODIGI
The project is co-financed by the INTERREG Baltic Sea Region Programme.
