Document Type
Article Restricted
Publication Date
2018
Journal Title
Transport Nodal System
First Page
135
Last Page
152
Abstract
There is growing academic and practitioner interest in sustainability across the supply chain, including at transport nodes. This chapter develops a definition of supply chain sustainability, adopting a broad supply chain concept and a perspective of sustainability spanning four dimensions: economic, environmental, social, and cultural. Sustainable supply chain thinking is applied to the context of transport nodes, with a special emphasis on “inland ports.” Several cases of sustainability initiatives at existing inland ports serve as examples of what is possible. Promotion of inland ports is a cross-cutting theme, since supply chain sustainability initiatives tend to involve customers—and alter the traditional cost/service trade-off in logistics.