Revisiting port sustainability as a foundation for the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs)

Alamoush, Anas S.; Ballini, Fabio; Ölçer, Aykut I.

doi:10.1186/s41072-021-00101-6

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“…The need to find the most appropriate solutions leads to (i) mainstreaming environmental concerns in policy design, policy-and law-making, or actions generally addressed to the port industry and (ii) greener initiatives and/or solutions on the part of ports. Requirements for the transition to a more sustainable paradigm and options towards achieving it are obviously far more demanding [10][11][12][13][14]. At the same time, however, they are extremely hard to be met given that they go through large-scale, radical changes across all areas of port organization, operation, and development.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As shown in Tables 2 and 3, a clear distinction can be made, on the one hand, between Core and Comprehensive TEN-T ports, and, on the other hand, between MPAs and SAs. In more detail, all five (5) Core TEN-T ports (100%) have initiated actions to evaluate their environmental performance compared with only five (5) out of eighteen (18) Comprehensive TEN-T ports (i.e., 27%) and only two (2) out of eleven (11) municipal ports (i.e., 18%).…”

Section: Evaluation/self-evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…An interesting finding is that, even though 52% of respondents do not provide such services, most of the surveyed SAs (66.6%) and Core TEN-T ports (80%) offer green services to their clients. There is, thus, a stark contrast between SAs and MPAs and between Core and Comprehensive TEN-T ports, since only three (3) MPAs (27%) out of eleven (11) and only seven (7) Comprehensive TEN-T ports (39%) out of eighteen (18) have taken action to provide green services to shipping.…”

Section: Green Services To Shippingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Environmental Mainstreaming in Greek TEN-T Ports

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Along with recent fundamental changes in several aspects of the port industry, ports come up against formidable environmental challenges. It is thus important and often imperative to mainstream environmental concerns in their operation, planning, and development; improve their environmental performance; and make the transition to sustainable production and consumption patterns. The industry’s greening is largely underpinned by European Union (EU) transport and port policy, with major European initiatives such as the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), the European Green Deal, and Blue Growth expected to give new impetus. This paper examines environmental mainstreaming in Greek TEN-T ports and their ability to cope with upcoming challenges based on questionnaire responses by 23 port authorities and taking into account the relevant progress made by ESPO port members. We argue that all respondents have gradually become aware of the need to move towards an environment-friendly operation and development, but progress is slow, and there is still a lot to be done. Performances vary and depend on different factors, while ports are faced with significant challenges and various constraints. Nevertheless, new environmental standards present a real opportunity for Greek ports to undertake deep structural changes, especially in view of current and future European port policy.

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“…Christodoulou [28] stated that the focus of the industry is on certain UN SDGs related to maritime safety and security, marine pollution, marine environment, and technical cooperation [28]. Literature suggests that cruise liners and ports can contribute to the implementation of the UN SDGs [29] and Di Vaio et al [11] provide an overview of relevant literature.…”

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Cruising Under and Post the COVID Pandemic: Toward Realization of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals

Eskafi

Taneja

Úlfarsson

2022

JMSE

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Maritime sectors have always dealt with uncertainties and disruptions. The COVID pandemic confronted the cruise industry with profound, wide-ranging, and lasting challenges while disrupting normal operations. Although the cruise industry contributes to the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), resumption and sustainable cruising requires the industry to adapt to the challenges presented. To this end, the paper suggests adaptive actions for the cruise sector to respond to the pandemic and links the actions to the UN SDGs to highlight their sustainable contributions. A system thinking approach is applied and a literature review is conducted to identify suitable adaptive actions. This paper shows the importance of UN SDGs 3, 4 and, in particular, 17 for sustainable cruising. The results of this paper provide support for informed decision-making to increase the cruise industry’s sustainability. This paper recommends that stakeholders: 1- identify drivers and barriers of sustainable cruising, 2- adapt to changes and embrace the UN SDGs, as they provide a platform for realizing sustainability, and 3- use educational programs to improve and transfer knowledge on sustainable cruising between academia and policymakers.

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“…Cyber risks can disrupt the operations of the entire seaport and lead to its closure. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that the improvement of digitalization takes place in parallel with the implementation of new and appropriate security measures [41,42].…”

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An overview of innovations and technology for sustainable development of seaports

Mudronja¹,

Aksentijević²,

Jugović³

2022

Maritime Transport Conference

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Seaports are important factors in global economies since most of the global trade is operated through maritime sector. Economic importance of seaports can be observed from various positive effects they produce for the area where they are located. At the same time, seaport activities create negative effects on the environment such as marine, air and soil pollution, waste production and noise generation that affect the health and quality of life of people. This paper analyses the possibility of achieving sustainable development of seaports through the development and implementation of innovations. The implementation of innovations in seaports affect the success of their operations, reduces business costs and creates conditions for maintaining a competitive position on the market; thereby affecting the economy as a whole. Moreover, innovations reduce negative effects on the environment thus affecting the ecological aspect and improve the quality of life of citizens, thus affecting the social aspect. The results of the research indicate that innovations in the maritime sector are mostly focused on the existing markets and include a discounted process of small improvements in the areas of vessel design and construction, fuel technology and port infrastructure. However, the development possibilities of seaports can also include innovations that are more focused on information and communication technologies (ICT). Innovations can address economic, social and environmental concerns and can give alternative guidelines for achieving sustainable development of seaports.

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Revisiting port sustainability as a foundation for the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs)

Cited by 68 publications

References 92 publications

Environmental Mainstreaming in Greek TEN-T Ports

Environmental Mainstreaming in Greek TEN-T Ports

Cruising Under and Post the COVID Pandemic: Toward Realization of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals

An overview of innovations and technology for sustainable development of seaports

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