**4. Conclusions**

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*3D laser scan & point cloud & reverse engineering by summit 3D.*

*BIM based ship design in NX-12 software by CAMdivision.*

*3D laser scan & reverse engineering by SEVERNPARTNERSHIP.*

In light of the above, it is possible to understand the importance of vessels and to aware, all the stakeholders involved in navigation, transport and design of ships, to work around a common goal: boosting performance and efficiency, ensuring the preservation of the environment.

Investigations must be carefully accessed before developing and launching products on the market. Simultaneously, the speed demanded is increasing, because the novelty of today becomes obsolete in little time.

Of course, these innovations are costly for businesses, never the less there's much to gain from them in a long term.

In addition, policy variables reflecting regulations at seaports affect port efficiency in a nonlinear way, its paramount to implement a global policy towards sustainability, regulating in very brief way the type of fuel used, CO2 emissions, oil spills, the coatings used, waste waters and cargo residues discharges. Shipping design has to become smarter and more eco-friendly in order to increase vessels efficiency and to reduce their environmental footprint.

However, it is not enough to create rules behind rules, despite the excellent commitment of some governments and organizations, the most important guideline is to continue to raise awareness of companies and people more connected to this industry reprograming their way of acting and thinking. With this, it becomes possible achieving a utopia, in which the ships have zero emissions, their inks do not pollute, their maintenance is done with the proper periodicity, thus ceasing (partially) with the nefarious effect that our species has been provoking on the planet.

It should be noted that this type of measures will have to be implemented in the shipbuilding industry as well as in all industries.

As a final note, we will have to face the storms that lobbys enemies of the environment will cause and paddle against the tide of global pollution in order to achieve a better world.
