Greening ports and maritime logistics: A review

Davarzani, Hoda; Fahimnia, Behnam; Bell, Michael G.H.; Sarkis, Joseph

doi:10.1016/j.trd.2015.07.007

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“…Nowadays, there is an increasing research trend on the topic of sustainability in both manufacturing and service industry (Carter & Easton, ; Christ, Burritt, & Varsei, ; Fahimnia, Tang, Davarzani, & Sarkis, ; Frias‐Aceituno, Rodríguez‐Ariza, & Garcia‐Sánchez, ; Klumpp & Zijm, ; Sahamie, Stindt, & Nuss, ; Seuring & Müller, ; Vachon & Klassen, ; Venus Lun, Lai, Wong, & Cheng, ) due to the growing number of environmental requirements established by the climate change agreements (Kyoto Protocol, ; Copenhagen Accord, ; Summary of the Doha Climate Change Conference, ; Paris Agreement, ). This growing body of literature investigates mainly the green initiatives adopted by companies operating in manufacturing industries (Dao, Langella, & Carbo, ; Gerstlberger, Præst Knudsen, & Stampe, ; Park, Sarkis, & Wu, ; Ranganathan, Teo, & Dhaliwal, ; Wang, Chen, & Benitez‐Amado, ; Whinkler, ), whereas in the field of freight transport and logistics industry, there is not yet a structured framework (Davarzani, Fahimnia, Bell, & Sarkis, ; Centobelli, Cerchione, & Esposito, , ; Lin & Ho, ; Oberhofer & Dieplinger, ). This issue is relevant because the green initiatives adoption by companies operating in this industry could play a pivotal role towards the achievement of environmental sustainability strategies affecting the entire supply chain (Brockhaus, Kersten, & Knemeyer, ; Dhakal, Smith, & Newbery, ; Laari, Töyli, & Ojala, ; Reinerth, Busse, & Wagner, ; Schnittfeld & Busch, ; Waller, Fawcett, & Johnson, ).…”

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Evaluating environmental sustainability strategies in freight transport and logistics industry

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This paper provides a conceptual framework on green initiatives adoption in companies operating in freight transport and logistics industry and presents an overview on the emerging green practices and information systems adopted. On the basis of a literature review on the topic, a research question was identified and addressed through an analysis conducted in a sample of freight transport and logistics companies. This research question regards the behaviours of freight transporters in adopting green practices and information systems. As for the adoption of both green practices and information systems, the paper shows that freight transporters are not a homogeneous industry, but different types of behaviour emerge. As for the relationship between the degree of adoption of green practices and information systems, the paper proposes a taxonomy bringing together sustainable strategies for adopting green initiatives. Specifically, four strategies are identified: sustainability leaders, green practice adopters, information system adopters, and sustainability followers. These sustainable strategies highlight the different phases of the process of adoption of green initiatives.

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“…Possible restrictions and problems include feared resource depletion and greenwashing [13][14][15][16]. For transportation, the global main transport modes road, rail, air and sea are challenged with sustainability concerns [17][18][19][20].…”

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How to Achieve Supply Chain Sustainability Efficiently? Taming the Triple Bottom Line Split Business Cycle

Klumpp

2018

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For sustainable supply chains, specific concepts regarding how to efficiently improve sustainability are needed in a global comprehensive triple bottom line (TBL) approach, especially for forwarders as central actors in supply chain design. Such specific advice is provided by reporting empirical DEA Malmquist index findings from seven large European forwarders regarding a TBL sustainability analysis from 2006 to 2016. A major obstacle in improving sustainability consists in the newly discovered fact that with the business cycle, the three TBL areas of economic, ecologic and social objectives for logistics are undergoing different up-and down-ward trends, making it very hard to improve all three simultaneously. Additional factors are identified in the characteristics of size and government influence regarding the sustainability efficiency of forwarders. This has important impacts on supply chain design like e.g., with selection criteria.

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“…True for all transport modes in transportation, e.g., for road, rail [4] (p. 148), air, and sea [5] (p. 473) transport [6] (p. 414), an important characteristic of sustainability concepts and efforts with LSP is also the fact that they steer the transport chain on behalf of industry and retail corporations and therefore influence their own sustainability performance [7] (p. 589). Furthermore, this is also proven by the fact that all major LSP provide extensive sustainability data and reports, often within legal business report documents, for example Deutsche Post DHL [8], Kühne + Nagel [9], or A.P.…”

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Do Forwarders Improve Sustainability Efficiency? Evidence from a European DEA Malmquist Index Calculation

Klumpp

2017

Sustainability

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Sustainability performance and efficiency is an important topic in transportation and for forwarders. This is shown, for example, by the fact that major logistics service providers LSP publish sustainability reports, often within the annual legal business report. However, in depth research is missing regarding the efficiency of forwarders regarding the established triple bottom line approach for sustainability, including economic, social, and ecology performance areas. This is especially true for a dynamic time-series perspective, as usually only static analyses for one point in time are presented (in most cases single business years). Therefore, the operations research technique of a data envelopment analysis (DEA) Malmquist index calculation is used in order to provide a longitudinal calculation of efficiency, incorporating multiple objectives regarding the triple bottom line approach for European forwarders. Several indicators are tested, including total revenues and assets as input types, profit (EBIT) and dividend volume (economic dimension), employment and gender equality in management (social), and carbon-equivalent emissions (environmental) as output types.

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Greening ports and maritime logistics: A review

Cited by 217 publications

References 77 publications

Evaluating environmental sustainability strategies in freight transport and logistics industry

Evaluating environmental sustainability strategies in freight transport and logistics industry

How to Achieve Supply Chain Sustainability Efficiently? Taming the Triple Bottom Line Split Business Cycle

Do Forwarders Improve Sustainability Efficiency? Evidence from a European DEA Malmquist Index Calculation

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