STAKEHOLDERS' ANALYSIS IN LNG BUNKERING: AN INTEGRAL PART OF RISK MANAGEMENT PROCESS

Evangelos Bellos (1) , George Chatzistelios (1) , Angeliki Deligianni (1) , Vrassidas Leopoulos (1)

1 NTUA - National Technical University of Athens [Athens]

The interest to use LNG as a maritime fuel is increasing significantly due to IMO's regulations. However, LNG's use as a shipping fuel faces important challenges, mainly due to the lack of infrastructure, facilities, and important uncertainties/challenges regarding the adoption by the shipping industry. Risk Management is an appropriate method to take into consideration uncertainty and support the relevant decisions. The current paper proposes a stakeholders' approach for managing risks, that includes a structured way for identifying and analyzing their interests, needs and expectations for the development of an LNG bunkering facility, and thus their potential influence on its objectives. The paper also presents the use of the Social Network Analysis (SNA) for assisting the modelling and analysis of stakeholders' interests, interactions, and activities to allow a justified evaluation of their power and their potential to create threats and opportunities for the implementation of the facility.

Mots clés: Risk Management; Maritime systems; Maritime logistics; Environment; Stakeholders' analysis; Social Network Analysis (SNA)

Domaines: Automatique / Robotique; Mécanique [physics.med-ph]

Evangelos Bellos, George Chatzistelios, Angeliki Deligianni, Vrassidas Leopoulos. STAKEHOLDERS' ANALYSIS IN LNG BUNKERING: AN INTEGRAL PART OF RISK MANAGEMENT PROCESS. 13ème CONFERENCE INTERNATIONALE DE MODELISATION, OPTIMISATION ET SIMULATION (MOSIM2020), 12-14 Nov 2020, AGADIR, Maroc, Nov 2020, AGADIR (virtual), Morocco. ⟨hal-03192673⟩