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Sustainable Cross-Border Maritime Logistics: Platform Environmental Responsibility and Green Governance

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Cross-border e-commerce increases the demand for maritime logistics and creates new environmental governance challenges. This study examines how platform environmental responsibility and green incentives influence sustainable governance in cross-border maritime logistics. A multi-actor Stackelberg decision model involving a regulatory authority, a platform, and merchants is developed for three logistics modes. Using industry-informed normalized parameter settings and a feasibility-screened constrained-equilibrium procedure, the analysis compares platform green governance effort, merchant green participation, modeled residual environmental loss, welfare, and profit outcomes. In the documented baseline scenarios, stronger platform responsibility increases platform governance effort, whereas merchant participation and platform profit decline. The welfare response is conditional on the feasible parameter region and must be assessed jointly with responsibility-related cost. Green incentives increase both platform and merchant efforts in the modeled scenarios. These results are comparative model implications under documented parameter assumptions rather than direct empirical estimates of emissions, costs, or policy effects for a particular platform or route.

Source: Sustainability

DOI: 10.3390/su18136844

Authors: Jun Luo, Zijun Wu, Ling Sun, Jianlin Lai, Jiayang Chen

Institutions: Shanghai Maritime University, Fuzhou University

Language: English

Topic: Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Subfield: Strategy and Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Responsible consumption and production, Life below water, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,896