Norwegian ship-owners' adoption of alternative fuels
Norwegian ship-owners' adoption of alternative fuels
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挪威船东采用替代燃料
DOI：
10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112869
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发表时间：
2022
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9
通讯作者：
R. Poulsen
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作者：
Tuukka Mäkitie;M. Steen;E. Saether;Øyvind Bjørgum;R. Poulsen
航运业不断上升的温室气体排放通常被认为是“难以减少的”。一些船东最近已采用或开始考虑采用替代燃料，但仍缺乏系统的研究。我们通过研究船东在实际和计划采用替代燃料方面的差异来解决这一差距。我们分析了来自挪威的281名船东的独特调查数据，挪威是一个主要的船舶拥有国和海事技术发展中心，采用描述性统计和方差分析。我们在海上、国际货运和国内客运领域的大型和老牌船东中发现了早期采用者，这些船东往往受到采用替代燃料的具体合同要求的约束。落后者通常是小型和年轻的船东，他们在对替代燃料采用需求较弱的航运部门运营。我们的研究结果还表明，企业的商业战略和金融和知识资源可能有相关性的船东采用替代燃料。我们的研究对国家和国际政策制定具有影响，例如强调合同机制如何成为激励采用替代燃料的有效工具。
The shipping sector's rising greenhouse gas emissions are often considered “hard-to-abate”. Some ship-owners have recently adopted or started to consider the adoption of alternative fuels, but systematic studies of this are still lacking. We address this gap by studying how ship-owners differ in both actual and intended adoption of alternative fuels. We analyze data from a unique survey with 281 ship-owners in Norway, a major ship-owning country and center for maritime technology development, with descriptive statistics and analysis of variance. We find early adopters among large and established ship-owners in offshore, international cargo and domestic passenger shipping segments, which are often subjected to specific contractual demands for alternative fuel adoption. Laggards were typically small and young ship-owners operating in shipping segments where demands for alternative fuel adoption are weak. Our findings also suggest that firms' business strategy and financial and knowledge resources may have relevance for ship-owner's adoption of alternative fuels. Our study has implications for national and international policymaking, highlighting for example how contracting mechanisms can be an effective tool in incentivizing the adoption of alternative fuels.