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INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS
JANURAY 2011
VOL 2, NO 9
All of these corridors are going to be implemented and be used as ―infrastructure at sea‖ in
2010 (EUROPEAN COMMISSION, 2009).
The Vice-President of the European Commission, Commissioner for Transport and Energy,
PALACIO (2004) describes the quality factors that ―the motorways of the sea‖ need to have in
order to be an alternative to road transport:
� Good hinterland connections
� Safety and security
� Effective traffic management
� Track & Tracing information systems
� Administrative efficiency
� Efficient ports with best service practices.
2.5 Emission Calculations
Calculating air emissions is done by first qualifying the emissions. This is simply the
identifying what material that are being used to make a truck running or make a ship go
forward, includes:
• Identifying inventory of raw material used in the process.
• Determining the chemical, physical or biological changes that occur to raw materials.
• Finding which of the raw materials pass through unchanged and have the potential to
be emitted to the atmosphere.
• Locating what by-products are produced as a result of the process and have the
potential to be emitted to the atmosphere.
• Sampling the raw materials and by-products for an overall list of the type of emissions
which could be released from the source and process.
Secondly one that has a purpose of calculating emissions must quantify the emissions. This in
order to determine how much of a chemical that are being released in to the atmosphere. For
these calculations one must quantify the emissions by unit, weight or time, for example
g/ton/km. The first table below is giving a quantifying description of how many grams of C02
one liter of average Diesel quality within Europe contains (DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, 2002). The second table is describing the emissions which
the shipping sector is contributing with to the environment (GBR, 2000).
Fuel Types CO 2 / liter (Combustion) CO 2 –equ (Fuel Production) CO 2 / liter (Fuel Production)
Petrol Sweden 2360 168 166
Petrol EU Average 2360 465 465
Diesel Sweden 2540 125 123
Diesel EU Average 2600 366 366
RME 0 1033 298
Table 4: CO2 amount for different fuel qualities
Source: NTM2(2007)
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