Sustainability in shipping is generally considered to cover the operations of vessels and their ultimate recycling when they are withdrawn from service, but a project in Finland expands the coverage of sustainability to shipbuilding. Called Sustainability and Transparency in Shipbuilding Networks - SUSTIS for short - the project team maintains that ship owners themselves need to widen the concept of sustainability to reflect a change in the way they are thinking. Shipyards act as system integrators and together with their supplier networks, which are extensive in the case of Finland where the industry focuses on passenger ships and other specialist tonnage, will have to cover a large part of the value chain when it comes to transparency and sustainability.
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