NTUA Maritime Transport

Laboratory for Maritime Transport

General Info

The National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) is the oldest and largest engineering university in Greece and it shows a most distinguished record of achievement, going back to its foundation in 1836. The School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NAME) is actively involved in practically all fields of basic and applied research in the marine, naval and ocean engineering technology, as well as in the fields of shipping management and policy. The Division of Ship Design and Maritime Transport (SDMT) is one of the four divisions of NAME, and deals with a broad spectrum of educational and research activities in ship design, on the one hand, and maritime transport, on the other.
The establishment of Laboratory for Maritime Transport (LMT) was officially approved by the NTUA Senate in May 2006. Until then, and since 1989, LMT functioned as a research and educational unit within the School of NAME, known as ‘NTUA Maritime Transport’. LMT holds a long-standing experience in the design, development and simulation of maritime and intermodal transport, marine environmental protection, safety analysis and human elements. Following Greece's rich maritime tradition, LMT is active in practically all areas of maritime transport R&D, having completed or being involved in projects in areas such as technology, management, economics, logistics, telematics, human aspects, environment, and safety. It has also been involved in projects and studies with a substantial policy analysis element. Linking R&D with education, LMT is also fully active in the School's undergraduate and post-graduate educational programs.
Research activities of LMT have focused on the design, development and evaluation of maritime transport networks, procedures and functions that cover numerous aspects of maritime transport using modern and advanced methodologies, the design and analysis of marine environment systems, and the cost-benefit evaluation and optimization of maritime and intermodal networks. LMT supports a new approach concerning the strategic analysis of marine oil pollution. LMT has carried out a systematic effort to develop skills and know-how in the design and evaluation of recorded problems of marine safety aspects (e.g. accident databases etc.). The development of relative databases, the formulation of innovative analytical approaches (e.g. statistic, data mining, strategic etc.) and the configuration of corresponding electronic networks (for information transferring and elaboration) have always been a direct priority of LMT.
Specifically, activities of LMT cover areas that include

Maritime Transport
Shipping Economics
Shipping Management
Intermodal Transport
Logistics
Shipping Finance
Market Forecasting
Port Management, Planning and Development
Routing, Sheduling and Fleet Managenment
Advanced Ship and Marine Systems Technologies
Telematics Applications
Ship and Port Safety
Risk and Safety Analysis
Maritime Security
Maritime Policy and Regulations
Marine Accident Analysis
Database Design and Management
Human Factors Analysis
Oil Pollution
Marine Environment Protection
Optimization of Transport Systems
Operations Research Applications