Current situation of the Mediterranean container ports regarding the operational, energy and environment areas

The 2020 Strategy in Europe commits to the consolidation of a SMART, SUSTAINABLE and INCLUSIVE Europe. Aligned with these priorities, the strategic importance of the smart-port holistic concept (emphasizing particularly operational and energy efficiency, competitiveness and environmental aspects) within the Mediterranean space is beyond doubt. Once defined the smart port concept, we search the data and information available in public resources about the main Mediterranean containers ports to try to describe their current situation regarding the smart-port concept. We found a significant lack of published data. Available data are often detected with different unit of measure, based on different time-scales and frequencies. The port authorities generally don´t have a clear, exhaustive and updated overview of key performance indicators´ data, with the exception of the operational KPIs. These aspects make difficult the results´ comparison and require an ad hoc elaboration.