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Audit template for inland port sustainability.

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    This report serves as an assessment of port sustainability and its potential applications for the 

    inland river ports of Kentucky and the surrounding region.   The report discusses and defines 

    sustainability, both generally as it relates to business and industry and specifically as it relates 

    to the port industry.  Given the unique nature of the inland port industry, the report reviews 

    lessons learned from 11 port site visits conducted by Kentucky Transportation Center in 2012, 

    primarily  at  major  U.S.  coastal  ports  but  also representative  inland  ports.    KTC’s  analysis 

    identifies the sustainability  challenges facing  various  domestic  and  international  ports,  and 

    what policy and operating initiatives are being undertaken to meet these challenges.   

    This report then discusses KTC’s progress in tailoring the sustainability process identified during 

    these visits to the inland port industry.  Field visits to 13 public ports along the Ohio River were 

    conducted  in order to develop  a sustainability self‐assessment tool, which took the  lessons 

    learned at coastal ports and large‐scale inland ports and applied them to the inland ports of 

    Kentucky and the surrounding region.  From these visits and the associated research, an audit 

    template  has  been  developed  that  allows  inland  port  operators  to  assess  and  improve 

    sustainability  levels.    The  wealth  of  information  compiled  in  this  report,  along  with  the 

    associated appendices, will prove invaluable to the inland port industry.  The research relayed 

    to the industry has already proven to be a boon to the ports that participated in the project.  

    The preliminary results indicate that ports along the region’s inland waterways would have little 

    difficulty improving their sustainability profiles at low expense, so long as they follow the advice 

    laid out by this report and the audit template.   

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