APPLICATIONS OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA) IN SHIPPING INDUSTRY

The paperwork is approaching different aspects related to the environment dimensions within the life cycle assessment of a ship. This scientific endeavors take under consideration environment issues related to the commercial ships, seen as a complex systems, integrated in economic and technical cycles, in line with shipbuilding and repairing shipyards, naval transports (maritime and riverine), port activities and its correlative activities. Thus, ships life cycle has been decomposed in successive or overlapping stages, as designing, building, exploiting and scrapping phases. For our LCA purposes was used Solid works software was chosen a ship model and a route, defined as work hypothesis. The proposed solutions are to lead to the impact decreasing against the environment, by optimization raw materials and energy consumption and by recycling processes incentive as to the end of operating processes.