Managing Maritime Container Ports’ Sustainability: A Reference Model

Cezary Mańkowski and Jędrzej Charłampowicz
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Cezary Mańkowski: Department of Logistics, Faculty of Economics, University of Gdańsk, A. Krajowej 119/121, 81-824 Sopot, Poland
Jędrzej Charłampowicz: Department of Logistics and Transport Systems, Faculty of Management and Quality Science, Gdynia Maritime University, Morska 81/87, 81-222 Gdynia, Poland

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 18, 1-15

Abstract: The concept of sustainable development is one of the few ideas that require the integration of all areas of human life on earth in order to maintain further development without major disruptions. One such area is maritime transport, including maritime container ports. Their unique feature is the ability to combine equivalent types of transport within the framework of a cargo-handling system with related information. In order to ensure a sustainable shipping flow through ports, it is necessary to integrate management knowledge with IT knowledge, so as to build a reference model of sustainable management of transshipment in maritime container ports. The literature has neglected this problem, thus motivating our contribution to this matter. As a result of the research work undertaken, a sustainable transshipment management system is first defined as a whole unit which develops its subsystems in a harmonious way without compromising them in the process. Then, the form of the reference model is given in detail. Therefore, we suggest that the system and its constituent elements constitute a method for sustainably managing the transshipment process.

Keywords: management; reference model; container ports (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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