Evaluating the performance of the vessel train concept

Meersman, Hilde; Moschouli, Eleni; NanwayBoukani, Loghman; Sys, Christa; van Hassel, Edwin; Vanelslander, Thierry; Van de Voorde, Eddy

doi:10.1186/s12544-020-00415-9

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Table 3 Total transportation costs for the VOs for the reference situation vs the VT situation and external costs savings for the society

From: Evaluating the performance of the vessel train concept

Vessel Class	Route no.	Sailing regime	Reference	CLV	CFV	CFV	CFV	CFV	ΔC1 (Eq. 1)	ΔC1 *no. FVs	ΔC2 (Eq.2)	ΔC_VT (Eq.3)	Total cost savings per voyage for the VO	ΔC_VT + ΔEXT_VT (Eq. 4) (Euro/TEU)	Total cost savings of the VO + ext. cost savings per voyage	Total VT business-economic cost savings of a 10-year period (2018 euro)	Total VT business-economic and societal cost savings of a 10-year period (2018 euro)
Vessel Class	Route no.	Sailing regime	(Euro^a/TEU)	Full crew (Euro/TEU)	Crew 4	Crew 3	Crew 2	Crew 1	ΔC1 (Eq. 1)	ΔC1 *no. FVs	ΔC2 (Eq.2)	ΔC_VT (Eq.3)	Total cost savings per voyage for the VO	ΔC_VT + ΔEXT_VT (Eq. 4) (Euro/TEU)	Total cost savings of the VO + ext. cost savings per voyage
6	Route 1	B	6.70	6.72	6.55	6.37	6.19	5.98	0.72	2.15	−0.02	2.13	744.26	123.52	9111.09	454,737	7,954,634
	Route 2		12.95	12.99	12.66	12.34	11.97	11.58	1.37	4.11	−0.04	4.06	1422.20	245.57	17,868.69	661,983	11,602,248.01
	Route 3		14.21	14.25	13.90	13.53	13.14	12.70	1.52	4.55	−0.04	4.51	1576.95	212.12	15,860.67	700,247	9,787,864
5	Route 1	B	8.92	8.96	8.66	8.36	8.03	7.67	1.24	3.73	−0.04	3.68	736.89	125.08	6957.32	631,433	8,327,958.51
	Route 2		17.26	17.33	16.76	16.18	15.55	14.85	2.41	7.23	−0.06	7.17	1433.78	248.67	13,868.93	845,535	11,266,925
	Route 3		18.94	19.01	18.38	17.75	17.05	16.30	2.64	7.93	−0.07	7.85	1570.63	215.47	12,246.14	871,337	9,339,563.10
4	Route 1	B	22.89	24.82			23.36	20.28	2.61	7.83	−1.94	5.90	294.76	127.29	1264.11	386,796	2,376,121
	Route 2		44.29	55.16			45.22	39.23	5.05	15.16	−10.87	4.28	214.23	245.79	938.51	136,717	981,939.92
	Route 3		48.58	60.51			49.60	43.03	5.55	16.64	−11.93	4.72	235.81	212.33	860.58	139,106	822,834
3	Route 1	B	21.67	28.50				20.28	1.39	4.17	−6.83	− 2.66	− 79.90	118.73	− 357.47	− 165,555	− 781,490.64
	Route 2		41.93	55.16				39.23	2.70	8.09	−13.23	−5.15	−154.43	236.36	− 705.92	− 173,361	− 844,684
	Route 3		45.99	60.51				43.03	2.96	8.87	−14.52	−5.64	− 169.27	201.97	− 643.03	− 174,098	− 712,421.06
	Route 1	A2	21.67	22.42				1.86	19.80	5.59	−0.76	4.83	144.96	126.23	648.54	187,785	1,305,235
	Route 2		41.93	43.40				3.61	38.32	10.83	−1.47	9.36	280.76	250.86	1283.36	202,449	1,422,911.76
	Route 3		45.99	47.60				3.96	42.03	11.87	−1.61	10.26	307.92	217.88	1169.70	203,928	1,183,156
2	Route 1	B	30.32	40.57				2.08	28.23	6.25	− 10.25	− 4.00	− 80.01	117.39	− 278.62	− 143,132	− 514,089.96
	Route 2		58.68	78.53				4.03	54.65	12.10	−19.85	−7.76	− 155.17	233.75	− 551.12	− 146,728	− 540,382
	Route 3		64.36	86.14				4.42	59.94	13.26	−21.78	−8.52	− 170.33	199.10	− 510.97	− 147,159	− 464,346.40
	Route 1	A2	30.32	31.47				2.79	27.53	8.37	−1.15	7.22	144.43	128.62	502.98	146,180	815,857
	Route 2		58.68	60.89				5.40	53.28	16.20	−2.21	13.99	279.81	255.49	993.81	152,459	862,317.813
	Route 3		64.36	66.79				5.93	58.44	17.78	−2.43	15.35	306.97	222.96	920.89	153,124	724,766
1	Route 1	B	34.83	55.34				4.17	30.67	12.51	−20.51	−8.00	− 80.01	113.39	− 252.87	− 146,869	− 485,866.089
	Route 2		67.42	107.12				8.07	59.34	24.22	−39.71	−15.49	− 154.85	226.02	− 498.79	− 148,536	− 501,476
	Route 3		73.94	117.50				8.84	65.10	26.53	−43.56	−17.03	− 170.33	190.58	− 466.84	− 149,019	− 434,424.99
	Route 1	A2	34.83	37.12				5.59	29.24	16.77	−2.28	14.49	144.85	135.88	457.83	153,490	767,257
	Route 2		67.42	71.84				10.81	56.60	32.43	−4.42	28.01	280.12	269.52	902.30	156,339	794,800.65
	Route 3		73.94	78.80				11.85	62.09	35.56	−4.85	30.71	307.07	238.32	841.64	156,545	671,087

Source: Authors’ composition
^aAll the monetary values are indexed values for 2018. The Product Price Index (PPI) was used to convert past values of 2015 into present values of 2018 for the financial economic values and to convert past values of 2008, 2010 and 2011 into present values of 2018 for the external cost values, based on OECD data [13].
The symbol * shows the multplication of the ΔC1 by the number of the FVs

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