Editorial: Special issue on "Green Port and Maritime Shipping".

This document is an editorial from the journal Maritime Policy & Management, discussing the issue of air emissions from the shipping industry and the need for green port technologies. The article highlights the significant amount of marine fuel consumed by shipping activities and the resulting emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, carbon dioxide, and particulate matter. It emphasizes that most of these emissions occur within 400 km of the coastline, causing severe environmental problems. The editorial also introduces a special issue on "Green Port and Maritime Shipping," which includes research papers on topics such as internal truck renewal, berth and yard allocation, stocks allocation, environmental management systems, marine greenhouse gas emission control, container terminal competitiveness assessment, multi-criteria decision support frameworks, and maritime transportation research capability analysis. The article concludes by emphasizing the importance of improving the environmental performance of ports for their competitiveness and the need for collaborative actions to control marine greenhouse gas emissions. [Extracted from the article]