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Current strategic planning for sustainability in international shipping

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Current strategic planning for

sustainability in international shipping
Environment, Development and Sustainability

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Xiaofang Wu (1)
Luoping Zhang (1) Email author (lpzhang@xmu.edu.cn)View author's OrcID
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Meifeng Luo (2)

1. The College of the Environment and Ecology, Coastal and Ocean Management
Institute, Xiamen University, , Xiamen, People’s Republic of China
2. Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, , Kowloon, Hong Kong

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Abstract

Sustainability is a necessity for the future earth. As international shipping, the

lifeblood of the global economy, moves toward door-to-door, strategic planning for
sustainability of such movements becomes extremely important and challenging.
Extant research on strategic planning for sustainability in shipping is rare. This study
adopts a structured literature review in conjunction with content analysis to identify
whether the existing strategic planning encourages sustainability in international
shipping. A broad review of maritime logistics is also conducted to understand
whether its strategic planning contributes to sustainability. Key findings include (1)
the most strategic planning in shipping is limited to “port-to-port”; (2) the efforts of
strategic planning toward sustainability in shipping are fragmented; (3) maritime
logistics represents an active research area but lags behind in strategic planning; (4)
proactive efforts to encourage green or sustainable maritime logistics have emerged;
and (5) the research gaps include the distinction between the terms of sustainability,
“green,” and “sustainable,” and the lack of an appropriate approach, methods, and a
collaborative research-practice network of strategic planning for sustainability in
international shipping. The findings suggest directions for future research to make
international shipping fit for the sustainability challenge.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Prof. Kee-Hung Lai and Markus Vejvar for comments on an earlier version
of the manuscript. We acknowledge the Project of 2016GF023 and “the Visiting
Program 2017” supported by Xiamen University.

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