A Comparative Evaluation of Turkey’s and the World's Green Port Criteria

Abstract

saving perspective in port operations. Green ports are defined as long-term strategies for sustainable and climate-sensitive development in ports. In this context, green ports reflect the importance that countries attach to the environment, safety and human health. Developed countries continue their work, to transform their ports into sustainable, safe, and environmentally and human health-conscious ports and to reach the standards set by international organizations. The purposes of this study is to define the concept of green port in Turkey and in the world, to investigate the legal processes and criteria, which are determined by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, for obtaining a green port certificate and comparing these criteria and processes with criteria and protocols adopted in the world as well as examining their validity according to the literature. In this study, a comparative evaluation of green port criteria adopted in Turkey with globally adopted criteria was conducted. In conclusion, discrepancies with global criteria has been listed and new regulatory proposals for green port criteria and certificates were presented.