The impact of the SEASTARS Project

Future-proof maritime fleets with phased retrofitting of scalable, market-ready decarbonization solutions De-risk investment in clean maritime technologies.

Smarter Ship Designs

SEASTARS delivers 8 innovative vessel designs—four optimized retrofits and four cutting-edge new builds—tailored for inland, short-sea, and high-seas shipping. These designs help enhance efficiency, reduce operational costs, and future-proof fleets.

Revolutionizing Carbon Intensity Assessment

A digital library of marine power and propulsion technologies helps shipowners assess the carbon footprint of various fuel and system choices. Modularized system models provide instant insights on Carbon Intensity Indicators (CII), ensuring compliance and long-term sustainability.

Evidence-driven Modular Vessel Design

Traditional ship design struggles on the monodisciplinary document based design approach leading to sub-optimal results and budget overruns. SEASTARS applies Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE) to seamlessly align shipowner needs in a multidisciplinary model based design approach with modular technology integration, ensuring every retrofit or new build delivers measurable efficiency gains. The applied MBSE method ARCADIA, implemented in the tool Capella, enables ship design based on traceable evidence from design requirement up to realization.

Policy & Compliance Impact

Accelerates Fit-for-55 Compliance through new vessel designs and MBSE-driven retrofit blueprints, driving sector wide impacts of 20% energy efficiency gains and 30% GHG emissions reduction, supporting EU & IMO decarbonization targets.

Economic & Business Transformation

SEASTARS delivers techno-economic performance insights to guide the sector’s investment decisions and outlining a cost effective decarbonization roadmap for the sector.

Industry Paradigm Shift

SEASTARS organizes design-thinking workshops for container vessels, crude oil tankers, PCTCs, and chemical tankers. Dissemination of MBSE-based methodologies at leading shipbuilding conferences and trade fairs, accelerating industry-wide digital transformation in ship design.

News

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