Conclusions

Abstract

This concluding chapter summarises the findings from all the different stages which analysed the development of an oil port sustainability framework for China.

The main research objectives were:

• 1) To develop a practical sustainably framework for Chinese oil ports;

• 2) To prioritise the practical oil port sustainably framework groups and indicators;

• 3) To discover the interrelationships between the oil port sustainability groups, and to structure the sustainability groups;

• 4) To determine the powers of the oil port sustainability groups;

• 5) To identify the most important oil port sustainability groups to form a ‘must have set’.

The first objective was addressed using interviews; the second through an AHP survey; the third by TISM; the fourth through MicMac; and the last through a comparison of all the four empirical study results.