Cruise is a maritime activity on continuous growth for more than three decades. With the positive direct and indirect impacts diffused to the port cities or nearby touristic destinations, cruise seaports are gaining importance. The interest in hosting more cruise calls and cruise passenger movements has been supported, in general, by broader communities and decision makers.
Still growing cruise business, like any other economic activity, is also associated with externalities raising social, economic, and environmental questions and challenges for cruise port and the surrounding areas.
PortEconomics members Thanos Pallis and George Vaggelas latest study details the two groups of factors that transform the efforts of going ‘green’ to a strategic challenge for cruise ports, and reviews the key issues that cruise ports need to address aiming to achieve the sustainability of their development.
Their chapter is included in the newly published book Green Ports: Inland and Seaside Sustainable Transportation Strategies, edited by Rickard Bergqvist (University of Gothenburg) and Jason Monios (Kedge Business School and University of Gothenburg).
The authors’ version of the study can be downloaded here.
To cite the study: Pallis A.A. & Vaggelas G.K. (2019). Cruise Shipping and Green Ports; A Strategic challenge, in: R. Bergqvist and J Monios (eds). Green Ports: Inland and Seaside Sustainable Transportation Strategies, 255-273, London: Elsevier
