Reporting on sustainability can help organisations work towards better practice. Michele Witthaus looks at trends in this type of disclosure by ports.

As logistics and transport hubs, ports have multiple complex impacts on those who work in or live near them, as well as on the wider regions where they operate.

Increasingly, ports today are taking action to make their operations more sustainable. But how many of them are sharing information on what they do in the form of sustainability reporting? Evidence suggests that while some ports are slow to adopt this kind of reporting, those that are disclosing their impacts are seeing multiple benefits.