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• Main Authors: Svenn Sætren Sørstrand, Svenn Sætren, Sørstrand Master
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Sören; Northern Sea Route
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.457.8194; http://ntnu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:566096/FULLTEXT01/

carried out during the spring semester of 2012. The objective of this work has been to assess design aspects for vessels using the Northern Sea Route (NSR) in addition to the Suez Canal Route (SCR). Followed by development of a decision support model (DSM) to assess the potential financial benefit of using the NSR taking into account the costs of ship requirements to be fulfilled, encountered ice and the vessels performance thereafter with resulting fuel consumption and cost, in addition to operational and voyage expenses. I would like to thank my responsible advisor at NTNU, Professor Sören Ehlers for valuable input, discussions, help and guidance throughout the work of this thesis. I would also like to thank Rüdiger von Bock und Polach for help and guidance with the ship merit factor.