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Strategies for low life cycle costs
The Swedish Maritime Administration (SMA) is responsible for the Swedish icebreaking service and has conducted a pre-study on how the current icebreakers can be replaced. SSPA has supported SMA with investigations of different aspects, including forecast of future tonnage in the Gulf of Bothnia, evaluation of alternative fuels, alternatives for hybrid solutions, evaluation of different propulsion concepts and overall feasibility studies of different options’ capabilities. The results of these analysis are tools for decision-making. To support the decisions in an economic perspective, the life cycle costs of different key features were assessed.
For the yard building the vessel, the focus is generally on keeping the building and construction cost as low as possible. For the shipowner and operator, SMA in this case, the life cycle costs (LCC) is of the utmost importance. To get the best result, the LCC aspects have to permeate the entire process of design, construction and building new icebreakers. With several parties involved in the process, including design company and yard, finding ways to get all parties to focus on LCC instead of low investment costs is essential. The LCC conducted for project IB 2020 (Icebreaker 2020) involves a number of aspects and the outcome is used for comparisons of different design parameters, of which propulsion is one.
Read the article Assessing costs for new Swedish icebreakers: a 25-year perspective
Assessing costs, a 25-year perspective
Renewing Sweden’s icebreaker fleet is a major infrastructure initiative. The existing icebreakers have been in operation for almost 50 years and the new icebreakers are expected to have a similar lifetime. Operational costs for such a long lifetime have a huge impact on the vessels’ total life cycle costs. Based on a number of investigations of key features, SSPA has conducted life cycle cost assessment of a new Swedish icebreaker.
Renewal of Sweden's icebreaker fleet – prestudy completed
It is a major infrastructure initiative to renew Sweden's icebreaker fleet. The Swedish Maritime Administration has procured expertise from SSPA to support them with several investigations and the results are utilized in a prestudy. Our experts have conducted investigations and analyses within ten different areas in order to find answers of key issues and to support the decision-making process.
Next generation of Swedish icebreakers – the design phase has now started
The Swedish Maritime Administration (SMA) has procured SSPA to support them with technical expertise in a prestudy regarding a new fleet of icebreakers. The SMA is responsible for the Swedish icebreaking, and owns five icebreakers.
“To do right from the beginning”
SSPA has positive experiences from supporting clients in wise decision-making using LCC (Life Cycle Cost) analyses as a tool. The LCC analysis is used to facilitate the understanding of the economic part of the project by building different scenarios in a structured way. The goal is increased confidence in decision-making.