“SUStainable PORTs”, or SusPort for short, is a project among ports along the Adriatic coast to enhance their environmental sustainability, decarbonisation and energy efficiency in the Eusair Area – from Trieste to Bari, from Rijeka to Dubrovnik. It is a strategic project of the Italy-Croatia CBC Programme within the European Union’s “Interreg V-A” programme and will be completed by this June.
The different elements making up the logistic system, being part of a remarkably competitive context, are permanently subjected to strong pressure towards optimising performances primarily for the key goal of maximising profits. Moreover, ever-growing concerns about environmental sustainability are also pushing the quest for cost-efficient and less impacting solutions. On these bases, it could seem that there should be no room for further major gains in efficiency, except for those directly resulting from big investments in infrastructure realisation and advanced technological innovation.