Abstract
Mirroring the increased interest in sustainability among governments and NGOs in recent years, ports have also started to focus on sustainability management, and are likely to pay increasing attention to port sustainability issues in the future. Currently, the chief interest of ports lies in cost reductions and achieving profit maximisation, while minimising their negative environmental impact and potentially negative social impacts. In this way, sustainability management has become the latest but most urgent goal for ports, following decades in which they pursued a balanced approach between economic developments and avoiding environmental damage. This chapter introduces the importance of sustainability to the oil port sector and places it within its context using China as serious example.
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Wang, X., Roe, M., Liu, S. (2020). Introduction to the Port Sustainability Issue. In: The Sustainability of Oil Ports. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41520-4_1
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