Circular City Ports - Workbook 1, Circular initiatives in the Delta

3.0 Benchmarking Benchmarking methodologies
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The circular practices analyzed in each port where
synthesized in a “fiche” format that was structure in
order to clarify which are the activities carried out
by the actor analyzed; what has been the development
of such activities through time; what are the
ambitions toward a more circular economy; furthermore,
it is very important to highlight the exchange
and relation with the city, and moreover, the relation
with the port and the inland water ways.
Understanding the ambitions and the strategy to
each practice in relation with the transition of each
port toward a more circular functioning, have been
crucial in order to building a body of knowledge to
start sharing, and, at the same time, to find a methodology
to compare each port and each strategy.
The synthesis of this work has been translated in a
matrix scheme, that start to give a first insight of the
different constellation of strategies that each port is
developing, giving an overview of the different circular
economy leverages present in each port.