Operations and Management for Sustainable and Green Maritime Transportation—2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite you to submit a paper to our Special Issue entitled “Operations and Management for Sustainable and Green Maritime Transportation” in Sustainability, which is covered by SSCI and SCIE and has an Impact Factor of 2.576.

With specific reference to maritime administration and management, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) noted with concern that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution from several land-based sources, including vessels and ports. To sustain the development of maritime transportation, “sustainable and green maritime,” which operates with a good balance between environmental impact and economic interests, has been the focus of marine industries and government agencies, and requires that they investigate energy saving and reduce the impact of their operations on society and the environment.

Maintaining and improving the daily operations of vessels and ports is extremely complicated, capital-intensive, and cost-sensitive. Research on the operations and management surrounding sustainable and green maritime transportation is gaining ground in all aspects and sectors of the maritime industry, and mainly focuses on efficiency and sustainability issues, involving the allocation or assignment of resources such as berthing space and yard space; the scheduling of critical equipment such as quay cranes, yard cranes, and container trucks (or AGVs); shipping service network design; fleet deployment; vessel speed optimization; vessel slot allocation; and emission mitigation and reduction, etc. Along with these efficiency and sustainability issues in port and shipping operations, several new technologies have emerged, such as digitalization, big data, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and block chain, to name a few. Nevertheless, the ever-tightening environmental and social criteria prescribed by international regulations has called for innovative scientific or data-driven approaches to manage maritime transportation activities.

This Special Issue on “Operations and Management for Sustainable and Green Maritime Transportation” to be published in Sustainability aims to bring together recent theoretical, applied, and methodological advances concerning operations and management in sustainable and green maritime transportation, regardless of whether they are related to hardware, software, or innovative approaches, and encourages researchers involved in maritime studies to engage in making maritime transportation sustainable and green. Both research and review papers are welcome.

The possible research topics include but are not limited to:

• Sustainable maritime transportation planning and management;
• Sustainable maritime network or fleet optimization;
• Optimization models for port and shipping operations;
• Revenue/yield management of maritime transportation;
• Innovations for sustainability issues with emerging technologies;
• Environmental issues in the maritime industry;
• Sustainable maritime transportation and competitive advantages;
• Managing sustainability through collaboration and coordination;
• Economic analysis of sustainable maritime transportation;
• Research for the future era of automatic shipping and ports.

Prof. Dr. Shuaian Wang
Dr. Jianfeng Zheng
Dr. Tingsong Wang
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

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.

• sustainable and green
• operations and management
• optimization models