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Advances in Intelligent Ports and Maritime Management

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 4162

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Hsuan-Shih Lee

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Department of Shipping and Transportation Management, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 202301, Taiwan
Interests: artificial intelligence; computer theory; data envelopment analysis; fuzzy theory; shipping management; shipping performance evaluation
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Prof. Dr. Yu-Jie Wang

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Department of Shipping and Transportation Management, National Penghu University of Science and Technology, Penghu 880011, Taiwan
Interests: fuzzy theory; multi-criteria decision-making; logistics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous countries in the globe adopted strict containment measures including maritime management and international port logistics. This made international trades and global logistics decline because marine transportation accounts for 90% of the logistics around the world, and international ports serve as the hubs of the shipping services. It is said that recent scientific developments are heavily important for maritime management and international port logistics on account of equipment and vessel shortages, total capacity decline, port congestion, and cost increase in the COVID-19 outbreaks. Based on above, related techniques of intelligent ports and maritime management are critical and essential for economic and business aspects of sustainability. Indeed, developments of ports and maritime need sustainable for business and management of all over the world. With a view to providing technical support or operation management level reference for relevant decision-makers, the special issue desires to collect the new scientific research based on advances in intelligent ports and maritime management for sustainability. These sustainability developments including green energy will impact many varied perspectives of ports and maritime, such as ship manufacturing and remanufacturing, cargo distribution and collection, shipping transportation, etc. Evidently, decisions should be made owing to sustainability in such a situation.

In light of this situation, authors are invited to submit high-quality research papers on the subject of advances in intelligent ports and maritime management for economic and business aspects of sustainability. Research related to the issues below is welcomed.

  • DEA applications on port or maritime sustainability
  • green energy of port or maritime
  • intelligent port on sustainability
  • IOT for port or maritime sustainability
  • maritime management on sustainability
  • port logistics technology
  • performance evaluation on port or maritime sustainability

Prof. Dr. Hsuan-Shih Lee
Prof. Dr. Yu-Jie Wang
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • intelligent ports
  • green energy
  • logistics
  • maritime management
  • sustainability

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Extending Quality Function Deployment and Analytic Hierarchy Process under Interval-Valued Fuzzy Environment for Evaluating Port Sustainability
by Yu-Jie Wang
Sustainability 2023, 15(7), 5730; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15075730 - 24 Mar 2023
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To confront the related problems of environmental protection, energy saving, and carbon reduction, sustainability has been a prominent issue for enterprises seeking to meet the requirements of the Earth Summit’ sustainable development goals (SDGs). Basically, sustainability evaluation of enterprises must be considered from [...] Read more.
To confront the related problems of environmental protection, energy saving, and carbon reduction, sustainability has been a prominent issue for enterprises seeking to meet the requirements of the Earth Summit’ sustainable development goals (SDGs). Basically, sustainability evaluation of enterprises must be considered from environmental, social, and economic perspectives, recognized as quality requirements. Numerous enterprises, especially for international ports, must pay attention to these requirements in expressing their corporate social responsibility (CSR) for decreasing marine pollution. Practically, the three requirements may be dependent under uncertain environments, and rationally evaluated by fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making (FMCDM) with dependent evaluation criteria (DEC). In other words, evaluating port sustainability, containing location expanding, should belong to FMCDM with DEC. For DEC under uncertain environments, fuzzy extension of the analytic network process (ANP) is a feasible solution to solve the above problems. However, fuzzy computations of ANP are heavily complicated; thus, we desire to combine quality function deployment (QFD) with the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) under the interval-valued fuzzy environment (IVFE) into a hybrid method for evaluating port sustainability. In numerous multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) efforts, AHP was often extended into FMCDM to encompass the imprecision and vagueness of data, but the extension was properly used for FMCDM with independent evaluation criteria (IDEC). Herein, QFD is utilized to express the dependent relationships between criteria, and thus transforms IDEC into DEC for the evaluation of port sustainability. Through the hybrid method, QFD is combined with AHP to replace ANP under IVFE, the complicated ties of ANP-corresponding interval-valued fuzzy numbers (IVFNs) are overcome, and the problem of evaluating port sustainability is rationally solved. Full article
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An Analysis of the Technology, Service Quality, and Relevance for CSBC Corporation: Taiwan’s Installation of Scrubber Systems
by Tien-Chun Ho and Hsuan-Shih Lee
Sustainability 2023, 15(7), 5641; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15075641 - 23 Mar 2023
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Shipping by sea is the most cost-effective way of shipping globally; yet, ship emissions make up 10% of global emissions. That means ocean freight is key to maintaining the global economy that we are accustomed to and if we do not deal with [...] Read more.
Shipping by sea is the most cost-effective way of shipping globally; yet, ship emissions make up 10% of global emissions. That means ocean freight is key to maintaining the global economy that we are accustomed to and if we do not deal with the emission problems of ships, the global industrial economy of the shipping industry will not be sustainable. In view of the importance of marine environmental conservation, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has adopted a comprehensive set of regulations to support the implementation of emission standards for marine fuel oil, limiting sulfur to 0.5% or less. For this paper, a survey was conducted by Taiwanese carriers based on quality management system architectures, to explore the following factors using the Kano two-dimensional quality model, the importance performance analysis (IPA), and the revised decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (RDEMATEL) to define the attributes, importance, satisfaction, and correlation that influence carriers’ choice of installing scrubber. The China Ship Building Corporation, Taiwan (CSBC) is the largest ship builder in Taiwan. Finally, the complete infrastructure is the primary area of service quality improvement for CSBC scrubber installation; the operators’ technical skill is the most influential factor, and shipyard operational efficiency is the main affected factor. Full article
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Using a Directional Distance Function to Measure the Environmental Efficiency of International Liner Shipping Companies and Assess Regulatory Impact
by Yi-Hui Liao and Hsuan-Shih Lee
Sustainability 2023, 15(4), 3821; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043821 - 20 Feb 2023
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Maritime transport relies on a large amounts of fossil fuels. It provides cargo-carrying services but simultaneously emits enormous amounts of by-products such as CO2, which cause climate change. The IMO has adopted mandatory measures to reduce the shipping industry’s greenhouse gas [...] Read more.
Maritime transport relies on a large amounts of fossil fuels. It provides cargo-carrying services but simultaneously emits enormous amounts of by-products such as CO2, which cause climate change. The IMO has adopted mandatory measures to reduce the shipping industry’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 70% by 2050, relative to 2008. In this paper, we select 11 liner shipping companies as decision-making units (DMUs) that account for more than 80% of the world’s shipping capacity. Utilizing the directional distance function, we estimate their environmental efficiency in 2019, 2020, and 2021. The directional vector serves to expand desired outputs and contract undesirable outputs. The larger the distance, the farther the evaluated unit is from the production frontier, and the less environmentally efficient it is assessed. This study compares the impact of environmental regulations on liner shipping based on two methods of dealing with undesirable outputs. Since the results indicate the low overall environmental efficiency of liner shipping, firms should strengthen their decarbonization efforts to achieve environmental efficiency goals. Moreover, the results also demonstrate that environmental regulations significantly impact liner shipping companies and that they need to reduce by-product outputs to comply with regulations. Full article
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