Assessment of environmental sustainability issues for South-Asian maritime ports

ABSTRACT

It is evident from the volumes of recently published research articles that ‘maritime sustainability’ is getting much attention nowadays. However, there has been a bias when it comes to the selection of maritime ports. The majority of studies have been done for European and North American ports, but very few have been done for Asian ports, especially when it comes to South-Asian ports. This research evaluated South Asia’s eleven major maritime ports to identify significant environmental sustainability issues they are currently facing through extensive literature review and then sorting these issues based on the Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) technique. Later, these eleven Major South-Asian ports were ranked based on these sorted issues using the Segmented String Relative Ranking algorithm, thereby analysing environmental sustainable practises at the selected South-Asian ports on a long term basis. The top three ranked Ports are Port of Malé (Maldives), Jawaharlal Nehru Port, Mumbai (India) and Port of Colombo (Srilanka).

KEYWORDS:

• South-Asian maritime port
• IPA technique
• SSRR
• environment sustainability
• major Indian ports
• environmental issues

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Kapil Vinod Gupta

Kapil Vinod Gupta is a PhD student in the area of Operations and Technology Management at ABV- Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India. He is a Mechanical Engineering graduate and has rich work experience as marine engineer in the Maritime Shipping Industry.

Gyan Prakash

Gyan Prakash is Professor of Operations and Technology Management at ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, India, and his research areas are supply chain management, service operations and public management. He has published in journals such as Production Planning and Control, International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing, Journal of Health Management, International Journal of Healthcare Management, TQM Journal, International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise, International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, International Journal of Healthcare Quality Assurance, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Public Management Review, Journal of Advances in Management Research, IIMB Management Review, Productivity, Journal of Indian Business Research, IIM Kozhikode Society and Management Review, etc.