Sustainability ranking of the UK major ports: Methodology and case study

Asgari, Nasrin; Hassani, Ashkan; Jones, Dylan; Nguye, Huy Hoang

doi:10.1016/j.tre.2015.01.014

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“…Educational promotion and vocational training, using different initiatives such as brainstorming techniques during work meetings, specific tutoring or mentoring programs, and learning by doing (analysis and implementation of environmental principles), play a crucial role for the port and shipping industry because they represent concrete facilitation in preventing environmental pollution and in improving environmental management systems in general [172].…”

Section: Training For Environmental Sustainability Development Withinmentioning

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Management Innovation for Environmental Sustainability in Seaports: Managerial Accounting Instruments and Training for Competitive Green Ports beyond the Regulations

2018

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Abstract:In the last 30 years, environmental sustainability has been receiving increasing attention by scholars and operators. All the seaport stakeholders, including port authorities (PAs), policy-makers, port users, any port stakeholders, and local communities, must invest substantial resources to achieve high competitiveness with respect of the environment. Drawing from the extant regulations system and conducting a deep review of the main contributions on the phenomenon, this conceptual study suggests managerial accounting instruments and training, which are still under-researched, as effective measures for enforcing and encouraging green port development. This three-step study consists of a systematic review of the regulatory frameworks and literature on the phenomenon, and an outline of the gap of the legislative framework and research, from a management innovation perspective, where effective managerial practices for environmental sustainability are not successfully suggested and implemented within seaports. On the one hand, the Balanced Scorecard and Tableau de Bord are identified and proposed as managerial accounting instruments for assessing, monitoring, measuring, controlling, and reporting the organizational processes of port players, mainly PAs, for developing competitive green ports. On the other hand, training has been suggested to educate and guide the human resources at all organizational levels within seaports, for supporting and developing awareness and behavioral attitudes in the direction of environmental sustainability.

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Section: Training For Environmental Sustainability Development Withinmentioning

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Management Innovation for Environmental Sustainability in Seaports: Managerial Accounting Instruments and Training for Competitive Green Ports beyond the Regulations

2018

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“…A similar case study of the UK ports has been done by Asgari, Hassani, Jones and Nguye [34] where five largest ports: Tees and Hartlepool, London, Grimsby and Immingham, Southampton, and Milford Haven were studied regarding port efforts in sustainable development with respect to environmental and economic aspects. Regarding the evaluation by ten managers and logistics experts, where two of them were academic logistics experts, the environmental aspect has higher priority than economic aspect in the ranking with a mean weight of 52.95%.…”

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“…The results show small difference (less than 0.3%) between eigenvector and Pareto optimal value. Moreover, a considerable body of prior research has explored port sustainability in various regions, except Scandinavia (Spain: Peris-Mora, et al [29]; the EU: Darbra, et al [30], Puig, et al [31]; Taiwan: Lu, et al [32]; Vietnam and Cambodia: Le, et al [33]; the UK: Asgari, et al [34], Kuznetsov, et al [35]; Brazil: Roos and Neto [36]). The present paper aims to apply an AHP method to support the decision-making process in port development project by: (1) verifying the applicability of a sustainability assessment using a sustainability assessment model for a terminal development project in an urban area of Scandinavia, and (2) validating results against the sustainable models.…”

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Application of a Sustainability Model for Assessing the Relocation of a Container Terminal: A Case Study of Kristiansand Port

2018

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Sustainable development, a new interdisciplinary paradigm, is attracting increasing attention from the global research community. It is an enhancement of sustainability principles. This study documents the findings from applying a sustainability assessment model framework by Koo and Ariaratnam (2008) for decision support in connection with the projection of major infrastructure investment in a port. The objective of this study is to support the decision-making process in a port development project and to verify the applicability of sustainability assessment using a sustainability assessment model for a terminal development project in an urban area of Scandinavia. The sustainability assessment model is based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). A literature review of sustainability assessment models was conducted to find indicators for the AHP approach. Subsequently, a questionnaire was compiled and six decision-makers for projects in Scandinavian Ports in urban areas were selected for the case study. The hypothesis is that decision-makers of major infrastructure investment projects in publicly owned ports must adhere to sustainable development principles and support the United Nations sustainable development goals that are a call for action by all countries. When documenting a sustainable design of port projects, decision-makers use theoretical sustainability models to conceptualize features of a sustainable society. However, a major challenge for the decision-makers was that the sustainability assessment results did not show, as expected, the same results as those of three existing theoretical sustainability models. The results of the sustainability assessment model were scrutinised and benchmarked against existing theoretical sustainability models, namely: a sustainability stool, a 3-overlappingcircles model, and a 3-nesteddependencies model. The benchmark results indicate a disparity between the importance of what sustainability models describe and what is important in practice.

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“…Broadly, sustainability covers three key dimensions such as environmental, economic, and social, which are applied to many areas, including maritime transport and logistics [1]. Out of the three, the environmental dimension is widely addressed in the literature (e.g., [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]), mostly in relation to ships and port equipment.…”

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Sustainability Challenges in Maritime Transport and Logistics Industry and Its Way Ahead

2019

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Sustainability issues in the field of shipping, port and maritime logistics, commonly known as the maritime transport and logistics industry, have historically received less stakeholder attention as compared to aviation and overland freight sectors. However, as International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulations on ships and port/city interaction has increased since 1997, the stakeholders in the industry have gradually started paying attention to sustainability issues, across all the sectors, such as, aviation, land transport, and supply chain. As a result, the industry has accumulated a significant body of academic research outcomes over the last two decades. This Special Issue aims to examine the various themes in recent sustainability studies, particularly relating to shipping, port, and maritime logistics, and identify and discuss the key topics emerging in sustainability in the industry. It will contribute to increasing industry stakeholders’ understanding of the current situation in sustainability, assist them in the design of appropriate managerial insights and help them develop appropriate sustainability policies for the industry.

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Sustainability ranking of the UK major ports: Methodology and case study

Cited by 134 publications

References 23 publications

Management Innovation for Environmental Sustainability in Seaports: Managerial Accounting Instruments and Training for Competitive Green Ports beyond the Regulations

Management Innovation for Environmental Sustainability in Seaports: Managerial Accounting Instruments and Training for Competitive Green Ports beyond the Regulations

Application of a Sustainability Model for Assessing the Relocation of a Container Terminal: A Case Study of Kristiansand Port

Sustainability Challenges in Maritime Transport and Logistics Industry and Its Way Ahead

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