Over the past 30 years, there have been growing concerns on the environmental impacts of maritime transportation, which have attracted great attention from both academia and practitioners. Understanding developments in this area can help guide future research. We conducted a comprehensive review of green shipping research, comprising 213 papers published in transportation journals in SSCI of 2017 over the period 1988–2017. We find that research on green shipping has increased greatly since 2012, accounting for 77.5% of the reviewed papers. The main focus today on green shipping was on air pollution, and the classification of green shipping practice, such as technical measures, operational options, market-based measures, and recycling and reusing, is becoming clear. According to the existing studies, future research on green shipping must strengthen technology research to not only solve practical problems, but also to establish a theoretical green shipping system. Moreover, researchers from different countries could cooperate with each other to give effective suggestions on setting standards and laws of green shipping. Finally, we identify the future research themes will focus on setting up green shipping system and legislation and policy.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	green shipping, green policy, pollution, air emissions, literature review
Research Division:	Economics
Research Group:	Applied economics
Research Field:	Transport economics
Objective Division:	Defence
Objective Group:	Defence
Objective Field:	Logistics
UTAS Author:	Shi, W (Dr Wenming Shi)
ID Code:	127263
Year Published:	2018
Web of Science® Times Cited:	34
Deposited By:	Maritime and Logistics Management
Deposited On:	2018-07-19
Last Modified:	2022-08-22
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