The Marine Environment and its Effects on Port Design and Construction

Tsinker, Gregory P.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-0863-9_1

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“…Tsinker (2004) identified the indicators of the effect of a port's development on its surroundings, including the hardware impact (community traffic, gas and sewage pipeline, and fire fighting facilities), impact on local fauna and flora, water quality, sediment and coastline erosion as a result of the construction of a breakwater, flooding and its control (port facilities should be situated in the relative high position), shipping operations and sailing activities, increasing amount of vehicular activity, deterioration in air quality, noise and vibration from cargo handling equipment and trucks, social‐economic and environmental justice (communities near the port area are mostly low income communities and they suffer from pollution from the port), cultural impact (the preservation of the historical, religious, and cultural buildings in the port area), and visual impact (the strong lighting late at night, uncovered cargo stockpiles, and the unattractive appearance of port buildings). According to Veloso‐Gomes and Taveira‐Pinto (2003), breakwaters and dredged navigation channels for commercial, fishing, and leisure ports introduce a “barrier” effect to the transport of solids to the coast.…”

Section: Green Port Practices and Literatures Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In short, most academicians (Frankel, 1987; Gilman, 2003; Gupta et al , 2005; Jugovic, 2007; Saengsupavanich et al , 2009) have indicated that residents‐sensitive indicators of a port neighbourhood are important to its green performance, including the cases of “ill health associated with freight movement”, “regulation in noise and vibration from discharging equipments”, “infrastructure impact avoidance, biology and wetland impact avoidance, and cold ironing”. Some other scholars have found pollution prevention is an important issue for a port's green performance (Veloso‐Gomes and Taveira‐Pinto, 2003; Tsinker, 2004; Zonn, 2005; Wenning et al , 2007; Matishov and Selifonova, 2008), including the lack of any “oil spill contingency plan”, “solid waste dumping management”, or “liquid cargoes spilling contingency plan”; “reducing infrastructure disturbance to marine biology density”; “ecology preservation and environment protection training”; “sediment of port entrance and coast erosion”, and “dredging sediment disposal”.…”

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Green performance criteria for sustainable ports in Asia

Lirn

Chen

2013

International Journal of Physical Distribution &Amp; Logistics Management

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to measure a port's green performance. The literature is reviewed and a survey is carried out to identify major green port performance indicators and to evaluate three major ports' overall green performance in Asia. Indicators located in the critical quadrants with a high degree of importance and low degree of performance are identified and resources are suggested that can be employed to improve the ports' overall sustainability performance effectively.Design/methodology/approachPort performance indicators are reviewed to select the green‐related ones by a session of brain storming with academicians from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in the shipping discipline. Selected indicators are used to design an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) questionnaire. The weight and degree of performance of each of the 17 green indicators among three major container ports are calculated by the data obtained from the AHP round survey respondents.FindingsAvoiding pollutants during cargo handling and port maintenance, noise control, and sewage treatment were perceived to be the three critical indicators by respondents in two of the three ports investigated. Among the three investigated ports, Shanghai port had the highest number of critical indicators to be improved. Air pollutants avoidance, encouraging the use of low‐sulphur fuel, and using electrically powered equipment were three of the five critical indicators found in Shanghai port, but not in the other two investigated ports in this study.Originality/valueThe theoretical implications of this research are the development of a conceptual framework to measure the degree of importance of a set of green port performance indicators, and to provide a decision support system to help port authorities to evaluate their performance regarding the 17 green port performance indicators compared with that of other ports.

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Section: Green Port Practices and Literatures Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Green Port Practices and Literatures Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green performance criteria for sustainable ports in Asia

Lirn

Chen

2013

International Journal of Physical Distribution &Amp; Logistics Management

129

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“…Some subarctic ports use other complementary actions like insulating materials on stretches of water close to the quays and a floating stockade to divert sea ice blocks (Tsinker 2004).…”

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The recent history of Finnish winter navigation in the Baltic Sea

Lépy

2012

Polar Record

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The Baltic Sea is one of the major maritime highway. During the middle ages, many of its southern ports belonged to the Hanseatic League. Since then, maritime traffic in the Baltic Sea has grown, having its trading activities internationalised through the diffusion of new shipping technologies. In 2007, the volume of cargo handled in Baltic ports was approximately 850 million tons. Moreover, the Baltic has an excellent network for passenger transportation: approximately 30 million people travel every year by ferry.Nowadays, its winter traffic represents about one quarter of the annual traffic. Nevertheless winter navigation is relatively recent in the extremities of the gulfs of Bothnia and Finland. Indeed, at the beginning of maritime transportation, the activity was seasonal and occurred only in open water, threatening to stop completely in winter due to sea ice formation. But for over a century, the evolution of materials and shipping techniques has allowed continuous maritime navigation. Despite the fact that sea ice conditions require the assistance of icebreakers, adapted port infrastructures, the introduction of ice classes and winter restrictions to the navigation, harsh winter conditions inevitably induce an increase in maritime incidents. There is the question of the future of winter navigation in the context of global warming and a possible significant reduction of sea ice.

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“…On the other hands, determining port design ship has been researched overseas as it has been included in related rules and regulations [14,15], but it is not well documented when discussing the fleet responsible for forecasted cargo handling while it is a very important step when either starting port planning [15,16] or trying to recognize port bottlenecks.…”

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Future of Container Shipping in Iranian Ports: Traffic and Connectivity Index Forecast

Panahi

Kheili

Golpira

2017

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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Rapid development of maritime container transport within the last two decades encouraged port authorities to focus on a more precise traffic forecast in order to cope with software and hardware requirements just in time. It has been the case for Iranian Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) to map marine traffic until 2025. This has been performed in this paper based on three distinct scenarios, namely, “simplified continuous growth,” “port best experience replication,” and “regional best practice” for four main container ports of the country based on seventeen years recorded trade data. Such results should be used as input to assess smoothness of port functions in future. Besides, Liner Shipping Connectivity Index (LSCI) has been discussed to draw Iran’s probable participation in the global container trade and shipping services within the next ten years.

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The Marine Environment and its Effects on Port Design and Construction

Cited by 7 publications

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Green performance criteria for sustainable ports in Asia

Green performance criteria for sustainable ports in Asia

The recent history of Finnish winter navigation in the Baltic Sea

Future of Container Shipping in Iranian Ports: Traffic and Connectivity Index Forecast

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