A Triple Bottom Line Analysis of Hong Kong’s Logistics Sector

To, Wai Ming; Lee, Peter K.C.

doi:10.3390/su9030388

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“…The authors proposed the use of Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) in order to determine the degree of influence that each TBL factor has into the OEE factors. Other works have pointed to analyze sustainability in logistics and supply chains structures [21,22]. Another paper that deals with sustainability in supply chains was reported by De Soete [23].…”

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Sustainable Overall Throughputability Effectiveness (S.O.T.E.) as a Metric for Production Systems

2018

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This paper proposes a new index for a comprehensive and systematic measurement of sustainability and throughput performance in production systems. The proposed index, called Sustainable Overall Throughput Effectiveness (S.O.T.E.), is designed on the basis of a comparison of the environmental and operational factors. Specifically, it integrates the following four dimensions: availability, utilization, performance, and environmental sustainability. The way each dimension is measured is explained and justified. This index uses the overall environmental equipment effectiveness (OEEE) index, which is based on the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) index. However, such metrics are lacking at the factory level, because OEEE, as well as the OEE, is devoted to equipment-level. Its application and potential contribution to the analysis of sustainable throughput is demonstrated through a case study in an actual crushing plant. Through examining several hypotheses concerning the relationship between operational and environmental performance, a series of useful conclusions could be raised. The main difference and advantage of the proposed S.O.T.E. is that S.O.T.E., as it is based on the Overall Throughput Effectiveness (OTE), measures factory-level sustainability and operational performance. S.O.T.E. allows us to relate the impact of the overall effectiveness of each one of the components of the index to each piece of equipment that makes a part of the production systems. Furthermore, S.O.T.E., as OTE, take into account the production system configuration (series, parallel, assembly, etc.).

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Sustainable Overall Throughputability Effectiveness (S.O.T.E.) as a Metric for Production Systems

2018

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“…The second maritime industry contributing significantly to China's total maritime economy is maritime transport. As China has been the world's top exporting country since 2005 and the second top importing country since 2009 [40] and the majority of import-export trade relies on maritime transport [29,41], the steady growth of maritime transport including the development of port and logistics facilities helps stabilize China's economic and social development. On the other hand, maritime transport produces a significant amount of greenhouse gases and other pollutants [29,31,41].…”

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“…As China has been the world's top exporting country since 2005 and the second top importing country since 2009 [40] and the majority of import-export trade relies on maritime transport [29,41], the steady growth of maritime transport including the development of port and logistics facilities helps stabilize China's economic and social development. On the other hand, maritime transport produces a significant amount of greenhouse gases and other pollutants [29,31,41]. Specifically, China's international sea freight-a subsector of China's maritime economy-and its greenhouse gases emissions have followed logistic growth in the past decades [29].…”

Section: Sustainability Implicationsmentioning

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“…Specifically, Mu et al [45] showed that China's marine catch had increased sharply from about 3.8 Mt in 1985 to 11 Mt in 1995. However, China's National Biodiversity Conservation Action Plan slowed down the growth of marine catch significantly, causing the total marine catch increasing slowly to 14.2 Mt in 2002 [41,45]. Besides, the overexploitation and the degradation of fishery habitats have caused grave concern for both China's government and fishermen [45].…”

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China’s Maritime Economic Development: A Review, the Future Trend, and Sustainability Implications

Lee

2018

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China has experienced unprecedented economic growth and structural change in the past decades. This paper reviews the development of China’s maritime economy for the period of 2002 to 2017. According to official data from China’s government, the total production value of China’s maritime economy increased from RMB 1068 billion in 2002 to RMB 7761 billion in 2017, thus contributing to about 10 percent of China’s total gross domestic product. This paper applies four-parameter logistic models to identify the associated trends and predicts the near-future values for the total, primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors of China’s maritime economy. It is projected that China’s total maritime economy will reach RMB 8894 billion in 2019. Besides, the growth of China’s maritime economy has been and will be dominated by the growth in the tertiary sector, particularly of China’s coastal tourism and transport industries. Specifically, China’s coastal tourism increased from RMB 147.8 billion in 2002 to RMB 1463.6 billion in 2017. In terms of spatial development, the east and north-east coasts of China experience more rapid maritime economic growth than the south-east coast. The implications for the sustainability of China’s maritime economy are presented.

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“…To and Lee () used a triple‐bottom‐line approach to assess the sustainability performance of Hong Kong's logistics sector based on three nonlinear equation representing environmental, economic, and social performances. They considered GHG emissions to be the only environmental performance indicator; value‐added values and R&D expenditures to be the only economic indicators; and education, health, housing, public safety, employment, and income to be the social indicators.…”

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Life cycle sustainability assessment of autonomous heavy‐duty trucks

Sen

Küçükvar

Onat

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J of Industrial Ecology

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Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) are emerging technologies expected to bring important environmental, social, and economic improvements in transportation systems. Given their implications in terms of air quality and sustainable and safer movement of goods, heavy-duty trucks (HDTs), carrying the majority of U.S. freight, are considered an ideal domain for the application of CAV technology. An input-output (IO) model is developed based on the Eora database-a detailed IO database that consists of national IO tables, covering almost the entire global economy. Using the Eora-based IO model, this study quantifies and assesses the environmental, economic, and social impacts of automated diesel and battery electric HDTs based on 20 macro-level indicators.The life cycle sustainability performances of these HDTs are then compared to that of a conventional diesel HDT. The study finds an automated diesel HDT to cause 18% more fatalities than an automated electric HDT. The global warming potential (GWP) of automated diesel HDTs is estimated to be 4.7 thousand metric tons CO 2 -eq. higher than that of automated electric HDTs. The health impact costs resulting from an automated diesel HDT are two times higher than that of an automated electric HDT. Overall, the results also show that automation brings important improvements to the selected sustainability indicators of HDTs such as global warming potential, life cycle cost, GDP, decrease in import, and increase in income. The findings also show that there are significant trade-offs particularly between mineral and fossil resource losses and environmental gains, which are likely to complicate decision-making processes regarding the further development and commercialization of the technology.

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A Triple Bottom Line Analysis of Hong Kong’s Logistics Sector

Cited by 8 publications

References 24 publications

Sustainable Overall Throughputability Effectiveness (S.O.T.E.) as a Metric for Production Systems

Sustainable Overall Throughputability Effectiveness (S.O.T.E.) as a Metric for Production Systems

China’s Maritime Economic Development: A Review, the Future Trend, and Sustainability Implications

Life cycle sustainability assessment of autonomous heavy‐duty trucks

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