Research in Transportation Business & Management

article i nfo Climate change has recently received more attention in the shipping sector. This is mainly due to a growing demand for reduced global emissions and the fact that shipping is one of the fastest growing sectors in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In parallel, ports have started to introduce programmes and policies to address these emissions. Thisstudyaimsatquantifyingpotentialreductionsofships'emissionsofGHGfrom effortsimplementedbyports. Building on a model that calculates GHG emissions from ships in various scenarios for individual ports, different kinds of measures for emission reductions are investigated for diverse types of vessels and parts of the port area. A case study of the ship traffic to the Port of Gothenburg is performed. Projections of ship emissions in the port area for 2030 are made, and three scenarios, '1. Alternative fuel', '2. Ship design' and '3. Operation' ,a re analysed. These scenarios are related to a business as usual development. GHG emissions from ships in the port are projected to increase by 40% to 2030 in a business as usual (BAU) scenario. The highest reductions were seen in the 'Operation' scenario where GHG emissions were 10% lower than the BAU level. © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license