Terminal Operations

It takes more than simple number crunching to meet green targets. Stevie Knight looks for passion behind the policies

Port concession agreements are full of guarantees on performance and throughput volumes – but generally contain very little, if any, environmental commitments.

The US Port of Seattle has labelled itself “the cleanest, greenest, most energy-efficient port in the nation”, and a key part of this has been signing a number of Memorandums of Understandings…

Todays average port website might feature rather more information on that port’s green activities than its commercial ones. Felicity Landon reports

Scotlands Cromarty Firth Port is going for the twin pronged approach of ‘big fence, high-tech solutions’.

Finding foolproof perimeter solutions takes a joined up approach, as Stevie Knight explains

Ports cant do it by themselves, says Professor David Menachof, port logisticsspecialist at Hull University Business School.

Where else are you taxed on the actions of other people? asks Charles Hammond, who continues to speak out forcefully against the UKs Carbon Reduction Rules because of the way they will…