Key Factors of Upgrading Traditional Ports to Green Ports (Case Study: Port of Chabahar)

Because of the ever-increasing importance of Green Ports’ subject, which involves different aspects like ports, environment, health and economic matters and also the shortage of researches and studies about this field, the subject of “Key Attributes of Upgrading Traditional Ports to Green Ports at the Case Study of Chabahar’s Port” was determined as the subject of this research by the researcher. This research is quantitative as 9 identified attributes by means of the internal or external previous studies and researches, consultations with the experts and specialists of ports and environment and, moreover fieldworks of the researcher with using the Fuzzy Delphi Method; were reduced to 7 important, influential and localized attributes of “Pollutions, the Marine Ecology, Garbage, Transportation, Economics, Technology and Management” to determine the prioritization and importance of each attribute at upgrading traditional ports to green ports with using Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process. According to the results of Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process the attributes of “Pollutions, Marine Ecology, Garbage, Environment and Managements” were identified as priorities consequently.