CENTRE FOR MARITIME STUDIES
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The Centre for Maritime Studies
International education and research centre in
maritime field and related fields
• We offer high-quality university level further education
• We arrange a number of international conferences each
year
• We carry out dozens of research and consulting projects
yearly
Centre for Maritime Studies (CMS) in a nutshell
Special Unit of the University of Turku Founded in 1980 6 Units 37 Employees 60 Publications17
Referee articles41
Projects12
Courses10
ConferencesYear
2012:
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Our Vision:
CMS is a highly respected expert organisation,
which provides the best specialist knowlegde for
the maritime cluster, predominantly in the Baltic
Sea region, using it's specialist knowledge and
utilising it's worldwide network.
Fields of Action
Conferences
Up-to-date maritime conferences on topical issuesResearch
Research and consulting in the fields of maritime industries and logisticsEducation
University level continuing educationTurun yliopisto
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• Traffic and ports in the Baltic Sea • Logistic chains and infrastructure
• The development and trends in marine industry and in shipping companies
Research and Consulting
• Environmental impacts of maritime transport
• marine spatial planning and integrated coastal zone management
• Promotion of shortsea shipping
Environmental Research and Regional Development
• Safety culture and management in maritime and port sector • Knowledge of Russian ports and transit traffic
• ICT and work processes in ports
Maritime Logistics Research
Research
Research and consulting in the fields of maritime industries and logistics Turku Pori KotkaEducation
University level continuing
education
• 1- 3 days long
• Aimed at people already in working life
Courses
• Apprenticeship type of education: Port Operations
Cargo Securing Ships’ Agent
Import and Export by Sea
Degree programmes
• Education unit leads and is involved in a large number of national and international EU-funded projects in the fields of seafaring and transport logistics
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Conferences
Up-to-date maritime conferences on topical issues • Ice Day • touch of oil • Satama Port• Mayday Mayday Mayday Some of Our Brands
• Distributor of latest information on topical maritime issues • Top specialists of the maritime field as speakers
Up-to-date Information
• National and international conferences, 800 participants from 12 different countries in 2012
Special Forum for Professionals to meet
Education Unit - Projects:
• Smart competitiveness for the Central Baltic region. Project aims to unite the maritime clusters of the region and to strengthen existing networks.
SMARTCOMP
• Cargo securing to prevent cargo damages on road, sea, rail and air, the project aims to tackle this problem by creating up-to-date learning material.
CARING
• The objective of the METALS project is to research and analyze future maritime changes and needs of i.e. environmental issues, safety, maritime economy and protection of the workers.
METALS
• The objective of the SeaTALK project is to develop a set of Maritime English Training Modules for Maritime English and develop an infrastructure which can be used to develop a European Vocational Credit Transfer Scheme for Maritime English (ECVET).
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Latest Research Projects
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• Cost effects of the new sulphur regulation
MARPOL – sulphur reports
• Vessel concept generation based on change factors in maritime transport
LAIVA 2025 – Future dry cargo vessel concepts
• Risks of maritime transportation of chemicals in the Baltic Sea
Latest Research Projects
• Cooperation and development project of five ports in the Baltic Sea: Turku, Naantali, Helsinki, Tallinn and Stockholm
PENTA
• Competitive advantages by safety
CAFE
• Baltic Sea cooperation for reducing ship and port emissions through knowledge- & innovation-based competitiveness
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Latest Research Projects
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• Survey of the current and future global and domestic market of natural gas and LNG
• To find out the amount of potential consumption of LNG (both land-based and maritime demand) and to find out the business
opportunities of liquefied natural gas in Satakunta region
LNG and Satakunta – preliminary study
• The aim is to apply the corporate social responsibility into shipping
Clean Shipping Economics
• The project gathers information for best practises for the structural changes in the maritime industry in the EU
Shortsea Promotion Centre Finland
Member of the European Shortsea Network
promotion of Short Sea Shipping since 2000 neutral platform for all transport related
stakeholders; public and private sectors provides information for decision-making reports and studies
Transport and the Environment 2012 Yearly Shipping Company Barometer >> November 2013
workshops, seminars
EU transport related programmes and funding; TEN-T and Marco Polo
ESN, the Way Forward
• Most of the SPC’s are participating in the project
• Co-financed by the European Commission Marco Polo programme
Aim of the project
• Collection of shortsea market related data and information
• Collection of data and information related to new environmental regulations • Promotion of Shortsea Shipping
• Environmental domain: the development of SSS in the SECA areas looking at the forthcoming sulphur directive in 2015, developments of LNG, use of scrubbers…SECA-report
• To provide information for various target groups (e.g. industry and
authorities), connected to shortsea shipping, on tools and measures to adapt to the new environmental regulations within the SECA
• www.shortsea.info
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