An analysis of energy consumption in refrigerated cargo sea transport

Abstract

In the papers concept is presented of comparing various means of refrigerated cargo sea shipping. Present state of development of this transport branch shows increasing use of the refrigerated containers whose advantages are broadly recognized: standardized cargo lots, very high loading rate, stable storing temperature during the way from producer to receiver. This paper is aimed at assessing also other conseguences of increasing use of the containers such as a loss of payload volume relative to that of the refrigerated ship holds, as well as an increase of energy consumption per unit net volume in relation to that of the refrigerated ship.