Maritime container transport accounts for approximately 90 percent of global trade volumes.
Largest container vessels represent challenges for container ports such as the required draft
of 15.5 meters. In order to be competitive many ports try to integrate in global supply
chains. Furthermore environmental issues play a growing role in the maritime business. Hence
this book concentrates on CO2 emissions from maritime supply chains involving European
deepwater ports. This research investigates carbon dioxide emissions of maritime container
transport from Asia into the European hinterland through new built German Jade-Weser-Port (JWP)
compared to the deepwater ports of Rotterdam Antwerp Zeebrugge and Trieste. Furthermore
these ports are compared on the basis of competitive factors such as port characteristics and
hinterland connectivity. This book also addresses measures for CO2 reduction in maritime
door-to-door container transport.
