merged

A Study of Alternative Energy or Fuel for Container Shipping in Malaysia
Mohamad Zulhaiery bin Zakaria
Dr. Rudiah binti Md Hanafiah
Bachelor of Management (Maritime)
School of Maritime Business and Management
In recent year, global air pollution from marine transportation and increasing bunker
price is a growing concern. In discerning the sources of such pollution, researchers
have become interested in tracking where along the total fuel life cycle these
emissions occur. In addition, new efforts to introduce alternative fuels in marine
vessels have raised questions about the energy use and environmental impacts of
such fuel. There have been a few suggestion or solution for these two issues, for
example, moderate steaming, strict direction or utilizing low sulphur energy or fuel.
Be that as it may, all of these solutions have their own impediments. To address
these issues, this paper presents to look for another solution: finding potential an
alternative shipping fuel or energy for deep sea container shipping industry in the
future especially concerning to Malaysian registered vessel. In the wake of surveying
potential alternative fuel or energy and determination criteria, the authors find out
that nuclear power, LNG and renewable energy such as biofuel can be seen as the
potential alternative fuel or energy. These candidates evaluated by comparison table
of fuels under different criteria, a survey followed by analytical hierarchy process
analysis and distributed questionnaire t o expert in this field. Through a detailed
analysis of alternative technologies developed and currently under research,
promoted will be those with the highest applicability to the state. Nuclear power are
most feasible for future container ship but other alternative such as biofuel and LNG
have also been considered. However people still worry about its high initial cost and
safety issues. Regarding the high initial cost, nuclear provide economic benefit for
successful long-term business strategy. Regarding the safety issues, with
technological advancements, it could be theoretically possible to solve this issue.
Lastly, this thesis explain about environment and human healthy than narrow down
to Malaysian effect presenting types of new era of vessel using alternative fuel and
propose alternative fuel for Malaysian registered vessel as further step to preventing
pollution in Malaysia environment.
1617 | UMT UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH DAY 2018