Green Maritime Logistics and Sustainable Port Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2023) | Viewed by 16029
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Interests: evolutionary computation; machine learning; data science; social computing
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Interests: transportation engineering; port planning and management; shipping network design and optimization; simulation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Green shipping not only refers to the combination of economic benefits and environmental protection in operation but also emphasizes the coordination between shipping benefits and the environment so as to ensure sustainable development. Modern science and technology are applied to the daily management of logistics and ports to make them energy efficient and effective. The environment symbiotic shipping management system established from the angle of environment and sustainable development is a shipping mode with sustainable development and environmental protection in essence. Therefore, Green Maritime Logistics and Sustainable Port Development (GML & SPD) is an important driving force of the world economic growth and the main energy consumption unit and pollution source in the world. Under the new situation of global energy crisis and environmental deterioration, the international port community puts forward the concept of GML & SPD. GML & SPD is a developing concept and a sustainable approach that achieves a good balance between environmental protection and economic interests. The green concept guides the GML & SPD to build a new type of logistics and port with environmental health, ecological protection, rational utilization of resources, low energy consumption, and low pollution. Scientific layout and rational utilization of logistic resources, organic combination of port development, resource utilization, and environmental protection, take the road of sustainable development with less energy consumption, less environmental pollution, excellent growth mode, and strong scale effect, and finally achieve harmonious, unified and coordinated development of port development and environmental protection.
On the one hand, the port industry has maintained rapid development for nearly 20 years, so it is natural that it should shoulder more social responsibilities and create more green values for society. On the other hand, only by adhering to the development concept of green logistics can we maintain the healthy and sustainable development of the whole industry. GML & SPD has become a general consensus of the logistic management and port industry.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Future Transportation.
Dr. Yi Zuo
Prof. Dr. Zhuo Sun
Prof. Dr. Jiaguo Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- green maritime logistics management
- carbon peaking and carbon neutralization in maritime logistics
- assessment methods, modeling, and simulation for sustainability in maritime logistics
- strategy of sustainable port management
- decision making of sustainable port management
- data analytics and digital twin technique for port development
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