An Evaluation of Greenness of major Korean ports: A Fuzzy Set Approach

Abstract As environmental concerns over managing seaports are gaining its importance, evaluating the greenness of the port accordingly draws a serious academic and research attention. However, the lack of the research aptly dealing with this particular problem attributes to the complexity of the problems involving various quantitative and qualitative factors, combined with the appropriateness of an evaluation structure. Therefore, this paper attempts to make contribution to the literature (1) by identifying the factors and structure of analysis by making use a factor analysis (FA); (2) by utilizing experts’ knowledge in solving the complex problems which are in nature ambiguous and unclear by adopting the fuzzy method; and (3) by ranking the targeted seaports and suggesting the pilot tail of methodology for evaluation of greenness of seaports. The results of the empirical research presented the rankings of Korean five trade ports for their greenness.