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EVALUATION OF POSSIBILITIES TO CHANGE
LOGISTICS-BASED TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES
BY APPLYING GREEN LOGISTICS PRINCIPLES.
Elena VALIONIENĖ, Audrius MALŪKAS
Lithuanian Maritime Academy, Klaipėda, Lithuania.
Abstract
Authors analyse a mechanical pollution problem, which consist of maritime transport and port business
companies – the amount (generation) of dust concentration release during and after bulk material handling
processes. Most dry bulk cargoes are dusty and therefore potential sources of wind-borne dust pollution.
Powders such as cast-iron, grain or fertilizers – all of which are commonly transported in large volumes in bulk
form – can easily be blown by the wind a long distance from the immediate vicinity of loading or discharging
processes which makes environment pollution problem. Main idea of research is to find technological
innovative solutions to modernize technological handling processes and implement the conception of green
logistics. The results of the research found out that using innovative technological ideas creates possibilities to
reduce seaports negative impact to the environment. Especially if we would look into recent five-years,
technological progress when innovative and effective technologies which helps to manage dust concentration
which are generated during bulk cargo handling processes in seaport terminals are already developed and
implementation of them into technological processes have strong economic benefit in other seaports
specialised in bulk cargo handling.
Keywords: logistics, logistics-based technological processes, green logistics principles.
Introduction
Logistics is the term now widely used to describe the transport, storage and handling of
products as they move from raw material source, through the production system to their
final point of sale or consumption (Belova, Mickienė, 2012). Logistic processes are directly
related to sales, i.e. the movement of raw materials through logistics chain to the end user
and these processes are main background for a lot of business operations.
Logistics is especially well positioned to contribute to environmental and ecological control
in terms of pollution control-management and energy and resource conservation, which is
inevitably linked to social responsibility and sustainable development concept, even
authorized and updated to ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and OHSAS 18001:2007. All of
these international standards are tools, which work as a system and help to control
environment management that outlines how to put an effective environmental
management system in place. The standards are designed to help businesses remain
commercially successful without overlooking environmental responsibilities. It can also help
companies grow while reducing the environmental impact of this growth.
Green logistics refers to the type of logistics which economically serve the environment and
have influence for sustainable development (Guo, Hui, 2013). Implementation of green
logistics conception in cargo handling operations is innovative business decision, which
would help to implement sustainable development aspirations’ and ideas’ through
modernization of technological processes at the seaport. This is the main reason of idea
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