The importance of environmental factors in the planning of container terminals : the case study of the Port of Augusta

Giuffrida, Nadia (author), Stojaković, Maja (author), Twrdy, Elen (author), Ignaccolo, Matteo (author)

Container terminals are the main hubs of the global supply chain but, conversely, they play an important role in energy consumption, environmental pollution and even climate change due to carbon emissions. Assessing the environmental impact of this type of port terminal and choosing appropriate mitigation measures is essential to pursue the goals related to a clean environment and ensuring a good quality of life of the inhabitants of port cities. In this paper the authors present a Terminal Decision Support Tool (TDST) for the development of a container terminal that considers both operation efficiency and environmental impacts. The TDST provides environmental impact mitigation measures based on different levels of evolution of the port’s container traffic. An application of the TDST is conducted on the Port of Augusta (Italy), a port that is planning infrastructural interventions in coming years in order to gain a new role as a reference point for container traffic in the Mediterranean.

• Language: English
• Keywords: maritime transport, environmental impact, maritime pollution
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FPP - Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transport
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: 13 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 11, iss. 5, art. 2153
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-135002
• UDC: 656.6*574
• ISSN on article: 2076-3417
• DOI: 10.3390/app11052153
• COBISS.SI-ID: 55316483
• Publication date in RUL: 16.02.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Applied sciences
• Shortened title: Appl. sci.
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2076-3417
• COBISS.SI-ID: 522979353

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 01.03.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: pomorski promet, vpliv na okolje, onesnaževanje morja

Projects

• Funder: Other - Other funder or multiple funders
• Funding programme: PON Ricerca e Innovazione
• Project number: CUP B46C18000720005
• Name: Technology and materials for safe low consumption and low life cycle cost vessels and crafts
• Acronym: THALASSA