Assessment of Port Sustainability Indicators in The Sustainability Reporting Process

Sustainability for the port industry has become a growing source of fear and concern for port authorities, policy makers, port users and local communities (Acciaro et al., 2014). Ports composed of different businesses dealing with different activities and offering a wide range of services (Hakam, 2015), are among the most harmful to the environment due to their characteristics such as the amount of waste they produce, harmful emissions and noise pollution they cause (Darbra et al., 2015). To reduce this harm, sustainability is one of the important concepts for port industry (Broesterhuizen et al, 2012). Especially environmental issues in port industry, have become an increasingly important focus in a global trend recently (Shiau and Chuang, 2015) at the end port authorities are began to pay increasing attention to environmental sustainability and security issues (Bergmans et al., 2014). Thus, the purpose of this study is to determine the prevalently used port sustainability indicators (PSIs) in the sustainability reporting process.