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2024/2025  DIP-DMARO2404U  Green shipping and Port Management

English Title
Green shipping and Port Management

Course information
Language English
Course ECTS 5 ECTS
Type Mandatory
Level Graduate Diploma
Duration One Semester
Start time of the course Autumn
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Study board
Study Board for Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (part 2)
Programme Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (Part 2)
Course coordinator
  • Andreas Wieland - Department of Operations Management (OM)
  • Henrik Sornn-Friese - Department of Strategy and Innovation (SI)
- Study administration for HD MAR: HD2MARITIME@cbs.dk
Main academic disciplines
  • Innovation
  • Strategy
  • Cultural studies
Teaching methods
  • Blended learning
Last updated on 26-06-2024

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Learning objectives
Upon successful completion of the course, the student should be able to:
  • Account for the sources, types, and impacts of air emissions in shipping and ports
  • Explain decarbonization solutions, such as, energy efficiency, renewable energy and green fuels in maritime operations
  • Assess the feasibility and scalability of different decarbonization solutions for shipping and ports
  • Discuss the role of ports in the green transition of maritime transport, including the integration of decarbonization practices and technologies
  • Design a strategic company roadmap for transitioning to renewable energy and green fuels in maritime operations
Examination
Green Shipping and Port Management:
Exam ECTS 5
Examination form Oral exam based on written product

In order to participate in the oral exam, the written product must be handed in before the oral exam; by the set deadline. The grade is based on an overall assessment of the written product and the individual oral performance, see also the rules about examination forms in the programme regulations.
Individual or group exam Individual oral exam based on written group product
Number of people in the group 2-4
Size of written product Max. 10 pages
Assignment type Case based assignment
Release of assignment Subject chosen by students themselves, see guidelines if any
Duration
Written product to be submitted on specified date and time.
20 min. per student, including examiners' discussion of grade, and informing plus explaining the grade
Grading scale 7-point grading scale
Examiner(s) Internal examiner and second internal examiner
Exam period Autumn, For information relating to the exam please go to: https://eksamen.cbs.dk/
Exam dates: TBA
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
For information relating to the exam please go to: https://eksamen.cbs.dk/
Exam dates: TBA
Description of the exam procedure

Groups of 2-4 tudents write a 10-pages home assignment, aiming to develop a strategic decarbonization roadmap for a real-life shipping company or port development company chosen by the student. The roadmap should outline the steps that the chosen company should take to transition from traditional energy sources to renewable energy and green fuels. This plan should demonstrate the students' understanding of the technological, business, and regulatory challenges involved in the transition and ability to apply relevant concepts and tools in practice.
Course content, structure and pedagogical approach

As key components of global trade, shipping and ports not only support the growth and distribution of goods worldwide but also significantly impact environmental and climate objectives. This course examines the critical role of shipping and ports in achieving sustainable development while simultaneously facing the imperative to decarbonize. The challenges to shipping and ports in providing safe, secure, energy efficient, environmentally and climate friendly services that, at the same time, promote connectivity and trade and enables economic growth are complex and tremendous. These challenges call for a multi-stakeholder approach involving shipping companies, port companies and management entities, regulators, financial institutions, and other relevant partners. 

 

The course will cover different themes related to sustainable shipping and ports, including:

 

  • Air emissions
  • Energy efficiency
  • Renewable energy and green fuels
  • Green shipping corridors
  • Ports as decarbonization hubs
  • Innovation and business models for shipping and port decarbonization and clean energy transition

 

The course will equip students to take on new roles and responsibilities related to the green transition in maritime operations within their respective organizations. This includes developing and implementing green transition strategies, identifying opportunities to enhance energy efficiency, evaluating renewable energy sources and green fuels (including compliance with international environmental regulations and standards), monitoring and reporting on organizational progress, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement and innovation for the green transition.

 

The course combines interactive lectures (including case studies and guest lecturers), recurrent short reading summaries prepared by the students, group work and in-class presentations, and an experiential learning set-up based on real-life cases.
Description of the teaching methods
A combination of on-campus and online teaching - 6 online sessions and one double session on-campus. Each student should participate in one in-class group presentation, and participate in peer-to-peer feedback to another group's presentation

Each student can choose to hand in 1-2 short reading reflection papers during the course, participate in one in-class group presentation, and participate in peer-to-peer feedback to another group's presentation
Feedback during the teaching period
Students will receive feedback from the lecturer on reading summaries and in-class discussions and presentations, the latter of which also involves student-to-student feedback.
Student workload
Preparation 64,80 hours
Teaching 18,00 hours
Exam 54,53 hours
Further Information


The course consists of a total of 24 lessons (5 ECTS).

For information relating to the course please go to: canvas.cbs.dk

The course will be offered in Autumn 2025; Teaching dates, times and materials are not available yet.
 

Course Coordinator (100%): Henrik Sornn-Friese, hs.si@cbs.dk - Department Strategy and Innovation (SI) 

The teachers of this course will be: Henrik Sornn-Friese, hs.si@cbs.dk


Programme Administrator: Pernille Nielsen pen.om@cbs.dk
 
Expected literature

ABS (2022). Green Shipping Corridors: Leveraging Synergies. American Bureau of Shipping (download from https:/​/​absinfo.eagle.org/​acton/​media/​16130/​green-shipping-corridors-leveraging-synergies).

 

Balcombe, P., Brierley, J., Lewis, C., Skatvedt, L., Speirs, J., Hawkes, A., & Staffell, I. (2019). How to decarbonize international shipping: Options for fuels, technologies and policies. Energy Conversion and Management, 182: 72-88.

 

Bilgili, L., & Ölçer, A.I. (2024). IMO 2023 strategy-Where are we and what’s next? Marine Policy, 160: 105953.

 

Bocken, N. M. P., Short, S. W., Rana, P., & Evans, S. (2014). A literature and practice review to develop sustainable business model archetypes. Journal of Cleaner Production, 65: 42-56.

 

Cullinane, K., & Yang, J. (2022). Evaluating the costs of decarbonizing the shipping industry: A review of the literature. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 10(7), 946.

 

Lam, J.S.L., & Notteboom, T. (2014). The greening of ports: A comparison of port management tools used by leading ports in Asia and Europe. Transport Reviews, 34(2): 169-189.

 

Miu, A., Sornn-Friese, H., Chung, C.Y., González, E.P., Stephens, A., & Waterton, R. (2021). Defining sustainability criteria for marine fuels. Fifteen issues, principles and criteria for zero and low carbon fuels for shipping. London: Sustainable Shipping Initiative.

 

Poulsen, R. T., Ponte, S., & Sornn-Friese, H. (2018). Environmental upgrading in global value chains: The potential and limitations of ports in the greening of maritime transport. Geoforum, 89: 83-95.

 

Sornn-Friese, H., Sofev, P., & Kondratenko, K. (2023). The Port Authority as System Builder in Cross-border Regionalization: An Exploratory Study of Port Esbjerg in the Development of North Sea Wind (with). Maritime Transport Research, 4: 100084

 
Last updated on 26-06-2024