Objective Many old fleets are currently operating without updating the propulsion design to new working conditions. Therefore, propulsion efficiency decays as time elapses inducing the rising of fuel consumption, contaminant gas pollution, engine maintenance costs and vibrations while ship capabilities decrease. Fishing boats and tug boats fleets are the largest fleets of boats operating all over the world.From the smaller boats sailing near the coast to large trawler vessels, there is a wide range of fishing vessels crossing the seas. An average of the operating life in these kinds of vessels can be estimated around 25 years. Since they use to work in two different conditions (fishing and saling to/from port and searching schools in the fishing areas), the design of the propulsion is conditioned by such different working conditions. With time, propulsion becomes less and less efficient. By an appropriate economic knowledge of the actual situation of such fleets, it is desirable to estimate the cost reduction in fuel consumption and maintenance as well as gas emissions and vibration phenomena.Economic tools together with engineering tools will be developed for the systematic updating of the propulsive (propeller and stern area) system to the new optimum working point in order to reach the main aim of the proposal. A standard methodology for this updating procedure will be the main outcome of the project. Fields of science agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesfisheriesnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollutionengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuels Programme(s) FP6-SUSTDEV - Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems: thematic priority 6 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) SUSTDEV-2 - Sustainable surface transport Call for proposal FP6-2003-TRANSPORT-3 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STIP - Specific Targeted Innovation Project Coordinator UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID EU contribution No data Address C/Ramiro de Maeztu, 7 MADRID Spain See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CONSTRUCCIONES NAVALES PAULINO FREIRE S.A Spain EU contribution No data Address Beiramar, 18. VIGO See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data FUNDICIONES PORTUGUESAS LIMITADA Portugal EU contribution No data Address Zona Industrial de Campos Polo 1 VILA NOVA DE CERVEIRA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ISTITUTO NAZIONALE PER STUDI ED ESPERIENZE DI ARCHITETTURA NAVALE Italy EU contribution No data Address Via di Vallerano, 139 ROME See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data NORWEGIAN MARINE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE Norway EU contribution No data Address Otto Nielsens veg 10 TRONDHEIM See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data OCEAN S.R.L. Italy EU contribution No data Address Via Felice Venezian, 1 TRIESTE See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data PESCANOVA S.A. Spain EU contribution No data Address Rua Jose Fernandez Lopez s/n CHAPELA, REDONDELA (PONTEVEDRA) See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SISTEMAR S.A. Spain EU contribution No data Address Bolivia, 5, 8°B MADRID See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND Finland EU contribution No data Address Vuorimiehentie 5 1000 ESPOO See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data