SSPA’s main responsibility, within the Mona Lisa project, is to create ‘optimal route’ based on the following criteria: fuel consumption, speed, estimated time of arrival, emissions and traffic movements. The result, an effective overall route plan, contributes to a secure transport system, which in turn provides optimized fuel consumption for each vessel and thus less emission.

The Mona Lisa project is an EU-supported co-operation between the countries Sweden, Finland and Denmark, where governments, private enterprise and academia join forces to modernize the maritime infrastructure.

Activity Leaders of the project are the Swedish, Finnish and Danish Maritime Administrations. The aim is to minimize the risk of running aground and create the most efficient route plan for each transport in terms of weather, currents, ice conditions, traffic and availability of berths and pilots.

According to the Minister for Infrastructure in Sweden, Catharina Elmsäter-Svärd, shipping plays a major role in the development of the Baltic Sea region and the Mona Lisa is a timed innovative project. SSPA’s Head of Research Peter Grundevik says “to contribute to maritime development, combining efficiency, safety and environment, is incredibly stimulating and we look forward to the co-operation with the other parties.”

Overall the project has a budget of approx. SEK 200 million and will run until 2013.

For more information about SSPA’s part of the Mona Lisa

Peter Grundevik
Head of Research, SSPA
+46 (0)31-772 90 15

For more information about the Mona Lisa

Project Manager
Magnus Sundström
Swedish Maritime Administration
+46 (0)10-478 46 81

SSPA is partly financed by VGR (Västra Götalands Regionen).