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For companies, sustainable development and innovations’ can provide competitive
advantages such as better recruitment and retention of employees, cost savings, and
improved corporate image and relations with stakeholders and financial returns (Valionienė,
Malūkas, 2014). Furthermore, sustainable development can open up a wider market in
which to operate, and hence provide increase in sales and revenue and in number of
customers. Finally, at a more general level, sustainable development and related practices
also reduce the risk of natural disasters such as climate change by checking generation of
dust concentration during cargo handling processes (Acharya, 2014).
The environmental problems (i.e. greenhouse warming, acid rain, air pollution in urbanized
places) are sounding an alarm for the public. The environmental liabilities we are leaving
behind for the next generation may be more than they can handle (Acharya, 2014). The
inefficiency of dust concentration management systems in modern maritime logistical
systems is the result of conceptual differences and that situation describes the problematic
of sustainable development principles implementation into traditional maritime logistics
processes. On the other hand, the cost of adaptation to environmental regulations can be
minimized or even eliminated, through innovation, which generate other competitive
advantages. This is not only a theory because here are many companies creating innovation,
eliminating the harmful technologies (Dima, Grabara, 2014).
The problems, which consist with environmental pollution, are especially revealing in
urbanized areas near seaports. A big part of seaports are located near the urbanized areas,
or they are located in the areas of intensive shipping, cargo handling processes and
increasing of pollution have a strong impact for surrounded areas. Usually, seaports
strategies is to achieve a high level of technological cargo handling operation’s processes
but at the same time forgetting about usable technologies negative impact on the
environment (Valionienė, Malūkas, 2014). From other viewpoint, most of the time, logistics
companies in seaport for all negative impact that they are making to environment – has to
pay fines. Because international standards require follow the rules for sustainable
development, also negative impact (i.e. the amount of dust concentration and so on) cannot
exceed the established norms. To address these concerns we need new economic and
organizational concepts such as green logistics and practices involving innovations and
modern technologies into logistic business processes.
Identification importance of the technological problem of the dust release sources in
maritime logistics processes
A large majority of ports is located in cities, which makes the fate of cities interlinked with
the fates of their ports. There are a variety of environmental impacts related to port activity,
especially if port is closely connected with city. The main impact falls on water quality, soil,
biodiversity, air emissions and so on. All of these impacts combines dusts and dusts
concentrations, which mostly are generated during bulk cargo handling processes. The dust
concentration impact to environment can have severe consequences for the health of the
population of the port-city, especially for the poorer parts of port-cities (OECD, 2014).
Seaports are major hubs of economic activity and of environmental pollution in coastal
urban areas. The air quality impacts of ports are significant, with particularly large
generation of dusts during cargo handling processes.
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