Deniz taşımacılığı firmalarının sürdürülebilir kalkınma performanslarının değerlendirilmesi

Sustainable development has become a crucial concept recently and there have been many worldwide attempts to promote it. As being one of the most important actors in the world merchant trade, the maritime transport sector also has critical responsibility in terms of sustainable development. However, this responsibility can not be limited to one specific dimension. All dimensions (Economic, Environmental, Social) of sustainable development have to be considered. This study aims to identify the performance criteria in terms of sustainable maritime transport and to weight the significance levels of the criteria. Additionally, it also aims to determine which maritime transport company is more successful in terms of sustainable development performance by years. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method is used to weight the significance levels of the criteria and the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method is used to find out which maritime transport company is more successful in terms of sustainable development performance by years. Accordingly, Three main and eleven sub-criteria were identified and weighted. Afterwards, the sustainable development performances of three maritime transport companies were analysed by years. Keywords: Sustainable Development, Sustainable Maritime Transport, Sustainable Development Performance Evaluation