ABSTRACT
This chapter looks to what is meant by sustainable transportation, the leading concept embraced to come to an environmental friendly transport system. It considers a port as a nodal point in a global network that starts with shipping, next there are the port-related activities, and from the ports goods are transported to the hinter-land or vice versa. The chapter focuses on that sustainable port management will benefit from governance at all levels and many international, national and local stakeholders are already involved when it comes to decision making and implementation. In 1987, the World Commission for Environment and Development (WCED) described the concept of sustainable development more extensively in their report "Our Common Future". Through identification of and reporting about relevant (environmental) issues, a basis is provided for new initiatives contributing to the license to operate, the basis for development and operations at each and every port.
