Green shipping practices and firm performance
| Autor: | Yuen Ha Lun, Kee-hung Lai, Christina W.Y. WONG, Edwin Cheng |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Maritime Policy & Management. 41:134-148 |
| ISSN: | 1464-5254 0308-8839 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03088839.2013.819133 |
| Popis: | Global economic development is facilitated by the commercial shipping industry. Shipping operations contribute to the growth of international trade activities, which heavily count on ships to carry cargoes from places of production to places of consumption. Despite its importance, there have been growing concerns about the environmental impacts caused by shipping activities in international trade. To balance environmental protection and productivity, many shipping firms have begun to adopt green shipping practices (GSPs) to improve their operations in a more environmentally friendly manner. GSP consists of six dimensions, namely, company policy and procedure (CPP), shipping documentation (SD), shipping equipment (SE), shipper cooperation (SC), shipping materials (SM), and shipping design and compliance (SDC). GSP is becoming an important aspect of shipping operations. It is timely for the shipping industry to evaluate firm capability in carrying out greening operations, that is, firms’ “greening” capabili... |
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