“…In short, most academicians (Frankel, 1987; Gilman, 2003; Gupta et al , 2005; Jugovic, 2007; Saengsupavanich et al , 2009) have indicated that residents‐sensitive indicators of a port neighbourhood are important to its green performance, including the cases of “ill health associated with freight movement”, “regulation in noise and vibration from discharging equipments”, “infrastructure impact avoidance, biology and wetland impact avoidance, and cold ironing”. Some other scholars have found pollution prevention is an important issue for a port's green performance (Veloso‐Gomes and Taveira‐Pinto, 2003; Tsinker, 2004; Zonn, 2005; Wenning et al , 2007; Matishov and Selifonova, 2008), including the lack of any “oil spill contingency plan”, “solid waste dumping management”, or “liquid cargoes spilling contingency plan”; “reducing infrastructure disturbance to marine biology density”; “ecology preservation and environment protection training”; “sediment of port entrance and coast erosion”, and “dredging sediment disposal”.…”