Your investment case depends on decisions made in other rooms.
Quay reinforcement, storage, and heavy-lift capacity are sized against which substructure concepts win and how serial the flow becomes. A serial flow of one common design needs a different port than one-off campaigns. I’m putting that link into the numbers — and I need the port side in from the start.
Sound familiar?
Sizing infrastructure against uncertainty
Which archetypes, what unit masses, what throughput per season — the parameters your investment case needs are exactly what the industry has not settled.
The port is priced in last
Marshalling and logistics enter most substructure cost models as a flat allowance. Port constraints rarely feed back into the design decision.
What participation buys you
Nothing below rests on a promise. Today you get influence and early access. The computational results arrive on the published research schedule through 2028 — and participants see each step first.
Port constraints inside the cost model
Quay capacity, storage footprint, and handling limits become explicit variables in the cost side — not a rounding allowance. The interviews decide how.
Scenarios you can plan against
You see which archetype-and-volume scenarios I explore and what they mean for throughput and area demand — early, before publication.
Visibility on the supply chain map
The free Twinyard map already lists 29 Norwegian ports with quay specifications. Corrections and additions from operators are published with attribution.
The cost of participating
The entry point is one conversation about how substructure standardization scenarios translate into port infrastructure and throughput requirements. Interviews run under NTNU research-ethics procedures and are anonymized by default — organisations are never named without written consent. Everything beyond the interview is optional and separately agreed.
A 45-minute interview
With a business development or operations lead. Which substructure scenarios your planning needs answered, and which port constraints the cost models keep getting wrong.
A funded NTNU doctoral program, not a vendor
This is a three-year NTNU-funded doctoral fellowship (2026–2029) in the Production Management group, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. Methods and code are published openly. There is nothing for sale.
You talk to me directly — Evgeny Ramenskiy, PhD candidate. Data is handled under NTNU research data agreements. Interviews run on informed consent, with the right to withdraw at any time.
Next step
Two minutes: tell me who you are and what you'd want out of it. You get a concrete interview proposal — topics, anonymity terms, scheduling — within a few days.
Express interestOr email directly: evgeny.ramenskiy@ntnu.no