Port Greening: Discrete Choice Analysis Investigation on Environmental Parameters Affecting Container Shipping Companies’ Behaviors

For centuries, ports have functioned as an economic engine, facilitating maritime transport, offering prosperity and social development to the host communities. Ports are gateways for international trade playing a vital role in world economy, but it is not excluded that port operations can also adverse effects on environment. Air water emissions, marine sediments, noise, waste generation, loss degradation of terrestrial habitats changes ecosystems just some leading environmental challenges with port’s operations. Environmental management within has been rapidly growing trend, many around adopting different types approaches initiatives improve ecological performance. Despite implemented greening strategies growth sustainable development, there still other work less than they should do aspects generation ‘green ports’. These latter fallen behind theme. Therefore, reported here aims at analyzing what best way act be, even starting from beginning very innovative, order pursue practical theoretical levels port’.