Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Benchmarking Human-Free Lifting Solutions in the Offshore Wind Energy Environment [PDF]
Energies, 2018 With single components weighing up to hundreds of tonnes and lifted to heights of approximately 100 m, offshore wind turbines can pose risks to personnel, assets, and the environment during installation and maintenance interventions.
Mark Richmond +6 more
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Misfits in the Car Industry: Offshore Assembly Decisions at the Variety Level [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019 This paper estimates the role of country/variety comparative advantage in the decision to offshore assembly of more than 2000 models of 197 car brands headquartered in 23 countries. While offshoring in the car industry has risen from 2000 to 2016, the top five offshoring brands account for half the car assembly relocated to low wage countries.
Mayer, Thierry, Head, Keith
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Innovative Single-Day Installation Vessel for Offshore Wind Turbines
Energies, 2022 Transportation and installation of a wind turbine system is one of the main factors for business availability of offshore wind power due to its high cost and technical difficulty.
Moo-Sung Ryu +3 more
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Responses of a Modular Floating Wind TLP of MarsVAWT Supporting a 10 MW Vertical Axis Wind Turbine
Wind, 2023 Offshore floating wind foundations supporting a large wind turbine require a large yard facility or significant facility upgrades for their fabrication.
Sung Youn Boo +3 more
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Phanerozoic Large Igneous Province, Petroleum System, and Source Rock Links
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 191-228., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Steven C. Bergman +2 more
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Climate change, the green economy and reimagining the city: the case of structurally disadvantaged European maritime port cities [PDF]
, 2017 The concept of the New Environmental Politics of Urban Development (NEPUD) examines the impact of international and national environmental regulation on the politics of urban development.
Jonas, Andrew E. G. +3 more
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High-Quality Development Strategy of the Industrial Chain of Marine Equipment in China [PDF]
中国工程科学The industrial chain of marine equipment is extensive and complex, playing a vital role in ensuring the security of the marine economy. In China, part of the marine equipment market and orders are based abroad, and some of the core technologies and ...
Jie Zheng +4 more
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The strategic integration of agile and lean supply [PDF]
, 2003 Lean supply is closely associated with enabling flow and the elimination of wasteful variation within the supply chain. However, lean operations depend on level scheduling and the growing need to accommodate variety and demand uncertainty has resulted in
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Polish Maritime Research, 2018 This paper describes identification and components of destructiveness of energy, economic and ecologic profits and outlays during life cycle of offshore wind electric power plants as well as the most useful models for their design, assembly and use ...
Tomporowski Andrzej +6 more
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The Effects of Offshore Assembly on Industry Location: Evidence from U.S. Border Cities [PDF]
, 1995 In this paper, I examine how the growth of offshore assembly in Mexico has affected manufacturing activity in U.S. border cities. Under the offshore assembly provision of the U.S. tariff schedule, goods that are assembled abroad using U.S.-manufactured components receive preferential tariff treatment upon reentry into the United States.
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