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Sustaining Sustainability in Marine Terminals: A Strategic Framework

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  • Mittal, Neha
  • Baveja, Alok
  • Krishnan, Ramji

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Sustainability initiatives in maritime industry, despite their global need and relevance, are often riddled with strategic and implementation issues. Here we examine “green” initiatives of top-five global marine terminal operators. We classify their initiatives as technology-centric, process-centric and relationship-centric, and develop a core-competency-driven framework for these initiatives. Our findings indicate that technological initiatives are easy to adopt and yield quicker impact in reducing emissions and increasing ROI. On the other hand, process-centric and relationship-centric initiatives are more difficult to deploy, take longer to yield benefits, but are difficult to imitate. We argue that terminal operators should recognize the value of long-term initiatives that are difficult to replicate, to build competency.

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  • Mittal, Neha & Baveja, Alok & Krishnan, Ramji, 2015. "Sustaining Sustainability in Marine Terminals: A Strategic Framework," Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Transportation Research Forum, vol. 54(2).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:ndjtrf:241819
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.241819
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