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A new EU-funded initiative aims to help them do both, with digital tools and better tracking of energy use and materials to improve their environmental footprint and reduce waste<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

By Anthony King<\/span><\/p>\n

In September 2026, naval architect Thomas Koch is bringing his firm\u2019s virtual shipyard to a\u00a0maritime trade fair\u00a0in Hamburg, Germany. The virtual shipyard is a digital replica that tracks shipbuilding progress in real time and can suggest improvements that save money and energy.\u00a0Such tools are badly needed as\u00a0European shipbuilding struggles to keep up with rivals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many large docks in Europe have shut down over the last three decades.\u00a0<\/span>China, Japan and South Korea dominate shipbuilding<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in volume, benefiting from huge scales and automation to make container ships, tankers and other commercial vessels.<\/span><\/p>\n

European shipyards\u00a0now\u00a0focus mostly on specialised high-value vessels such as cruise ships, coastal ferries, yachts, icebreakers and offshore engineering vessels. Many have carved out niches in particular ship types and are testing new technologies to cut emissions and fuel use.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEurope can gain an edge in global shipping by adopting new clean technologies,\u201d said Koch, the founder of\u00a0Atlantec Enterprise Solutions, which provides IT for the maritime industry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Koch and a team of researchers are tackling some of the challenges by combining renewable energy, digital advances and material tracking systems to boost sustainability in a new EU-funded project called ESY.<\/span><\/p>\n

The researchers look at emissions from ships at sea, but also at shipyards\u2019 environmental footprints: how much energy they use, how much steel and other materials they need, and how much waste they produce.<\/span><\/p>\n

Koch estimates that assisted wind power can cut fuel use by 20 to 30\u00a0%, for example, which means lower costs for operators and fewer emissions overall.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShipbuilding in Europe has a future and Europe has specific strengths,\u201d he said. Retrofitting ships with new technology has seen a surge in demand.<\/span><\/p>\n

A sector in slow decline<\/h2>\n

Labour accounts for as much as 70\u00a0% of shipbuilding costs, which makes Europe expensive. Unlike car manufacturing, where identical models are made over and over, shipbuilding usually involves a single bespoke vessel, made without much automation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, small and medium-sized shipyards in Europe operate independently \u2013 not benefiting from scale \u2013 and often rely on large expensive equipment that must work for decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShipbuilding is rather old fashioned and still very labour intensive,\u201d said Dimitrios Lyridis, a naval engineer and professor at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), who is also part of the ESY team.<\/span><\/p>\n

For decades, he said, it was seen as a sunset industry in Europe, receiving little government or EU support or funding, especially from the 1970s to the early 2000s.<\/span><\/p>\n

This may be changing. In March 2026, the European Commission adopted\u00a0a new\u00a0Industrial Maritime Strategy\u00a0to boost Europe\u2019s manufacturing and shipping industries. ESY researchers are working towards the same goal.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur main focus is to try to improve competitiveness of the European shipbuilding industry by providing tools to monitor their processes and improve their environmental footprint,\u201d said Panos Evangelou, a naval economist at NTUA.<\/span><\/p>\n

This means giving shipyards digital tools that show where they waste energy and materials, and which simple changes would cut this waste the most.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ambition is to construct advanced vessels boosted by green technology in leaner, more sustainable shipyards. The ESY team is launching an EU material passport that tracks materials from production to ship decommissioning.<\/span><\/p>\n

The passport is a digital logbook for each ship, listing which materials go into it, where they come from and how they are used, so that parts can be repaired, reused or recycled more easily later.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s often lots of waste throughout shipbuilding,\u201d said Lyridis. \u201cBy tracking how much waste you have, you can redesign, for example, the way you cut steel in a more efficient manner.\u201d The idea is to use materials more efficiently, save energy, cut costs and introduce better standards.<\/span><\/p>\n

Greener shipyards in practice<\/h2>\n

In one demonstration, a steel cutting process was retrofitted at\u00a0Astilleros de Santander, a Spanish shipyard in the Bay of Biscay that has been operating for over a century. A piece of equipment was modified so that it would use less energy, thereby reducing costs and emissions.<\/span><\/p>\n

The same setup will also be used to test the material passport and other ESY tools \u2013 in a real yard with ships.<\/span><\/p>\n

The researchers are also developing an environmental performance index for shipyards that helps to measure and reduce their environmental footprint.<\/span><\/p>\n

The index combines simple figures \u2013 electricity, fuel and water use, waste and emissions \u2013 into a single score. In this way, shipyards can see if they are getting better over time, or compare different projects or sites.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBy benchmarking what you are doing, you can find alternative ways that are more economical and more energy-efficient,\u201d Lyridis said.<\/span><\/p>\n

This fits into the general trend of greener industrial processes, with potential competitive advantages.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFinancing for shipping is easier if you have a greener profile and now cargo owners have been requesting that ships be green,\u201d said Lyridis. There are more stringent regulations on emissions and noise, and in how ships and shipyards operate.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ESY material passport is a first step in delivering a certification for sustainability compliance, noted Professor Marc Bonazountas at Epsilon Group, a maritime technology and consulting firm. This could become crucial in future.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPorts are now thinking about giving priority to those vessels that are greener and emit less pollution. Dirty, noisy vessels may have less access to harbours in Europe,\u201d said Bonazountas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why shipyards still matter<\/h2>\n

There are strategic reasons for Europe not to neglect shipbuilding.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe dominant countries that govern the world are those that dominate the seas. For that, you must have shipyards,\u201d Bonazountas said, adding that the USA is now offering subsidies and support to get its shipbuilding back.<\/span><\/p>\n

Europe, Bonazountas said, must create a unified maritime industrial strategy where shipyards become part of the wider transport value chain. This means not only constructing new vessels, but also providing lifecycle services, retrofitting, digital support, and, in the future, leasing advanced vessels to operators, particularly as nuclear propulsion technologies emerge.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEurope\u2019s competitiveness will depend on the shipyards it preserves, modernises and empowers,\u201d said Bonazountas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lyridis said shipbuilding in Europe had survived despite years of neglect. \u201cNow it has been realised how important it is for Europe to retain a shipping industry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For Koch, Lyridis and their colleagues, the next steps are to prove that tools such as the material passport and performance index work in busy shipyards \u2013 and to show that making ships greener can also help keep Europe\u2019s shipyards in business.<\/span><\/p>\n

By Anthony King<\/h2>\n

Image: European shipyards seek to cut costs and pollution with new digital tools. \u00a9 FOTOGRIN, Shutterstock.com<\/span><\/p>\n

This article was originally published\u202fin\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Horizon<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u00a0the EU Research and Innovation Magazine.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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