Digital transformation is a central pillar of the ECOSHIPYARD (ESY) project. ESY is committed to developing a suite of digital tools designed to support sustainable shipbuilding practices and enable shipyards to better understand, manage, and optimise their environmental performance.
These tools will play a critical role in helping shipyards monitor their environmental impact, providing structured methods to assess key indicators such as carbon footprint and resource use. By offering reliable environmental data, the tools allow shipyards to identify opportunities for improvement, evaluate operational decisions, and design more efficient workflows.
A major strength of the ESY digital framework is its ability to bring clarity and transparency to complex industrial processes. Through organised monitoring and assessment functions, shipyards will gain visibility over operational activities that traditionally lack systematic environmental evaluation. This shift supports better-informed decision-making and enables shipyards to align daily operations with long-term sustainability strategies.
Furthermore, the integration of digital monitoring into shipyard processes strengthens ESY’s broader objective of reducing environmental impact and increasing energy efficiency. By enabling shipyards to track performance in real time and compare results across activities, the tools facilitate optimisation of logistics, materials use, and operational energy demands. These capabilities are essential for moving the sector toward greener, more efficient production cycles.
Ultimately, the digital instrumentation envisioned by ESY establishes a new operational standard for shipyards—one in which environmental accountability, data-driven evaluation, and continuous improvement become integral parts of daily work. This supports not only the transformation of individual shipyards but contributes to advancing sustainability across the wider European shipbuilding ecosystem.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation program under grant agreement no. 101138730. UK participation in EcoShipYard Project is funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe guarantee [grant-number 10120898].
