Cold Ironing Implementation Overview in European Ports—Case Study—Croatian Ports
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Reviewer Recommendation and Comments for manuscript sustainability-2379460-peer-review-v1.pdf with the title: “Cold ironing implementation overview in European ports – 2 case study – Croatian ports”, authors: Roko Glavinović, Maja Krčum, Luka Vukić, Ivan Karin.
Using totally 50 references, authors identify the prospects for cold ironing technology introduction into Croatian ports considering new EU regulations.
The text is clearly written and the graphical interpretation of the results clearly provides insight into the results obtained. The structure, content, and concept of the research work, as well as the achievements, correspond to the original scientific article. The English is fine and the paper is clearly written.
The main comments that I find useful for improving the quality of the article are presented below:
Finding 1: Line 217, it is missing a literature reference.
Finding 2: Paragraph 4: Method. Author should explain scientific methods in details which are used in the manuscript. It is necessary to explain two stages in details and specific questioner.
Finding 3: In Results are missing more statistical data. Authors should in detail explain proposed framework for the implementation of cold ironing technology in the state-owned ports of the Republic of Croatia.
Finding 4: Paragraph 6: Discussion and conclusion. I suggest to split this paragraph in two. In Discussion, it is important to explain scientific achievements in this manuscript and explain possible different framework for implementation new technology in Croatia. In Conclusion, authors should explain and specify main scientific achievements and explain possible future research in this field.
Due to above states, I require major revision before publishing this manuscript.
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Reviewer 2 Report
The scientific article is well-founded and coherently explains the research carried out. However, the article/paper could provide more details of the research carried out in the field, with port actors in Croatia. The number of people who answered the questionnaire is not addressed, nor is it reported whether they are open questions or not, when the field research was carried out, how, etc. It would be interesting to describe how the study was carried out in ports in Croatia.
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Reviewer 3 Report
This study identify the prospects for cold ironing technology introduction into Croatian state-owned ports according to European sustainable conditions.
The research approach and contents are interesting. Some suggestions to improve the quality of work are as follows:
- make the abstract more meaningful, even with quantitative content
- increase the scientific literature, emphasizing more the benefits introduced by cold ironing. Citing this article could also be useful Marinello et al., 2021 - Sustainability of logistics infrastructures: operational and technological alternatives to reduce the impact on air quality
- Provide a brief description of the chosen ports (Rijeka, Zadar, Šibenik, Split, Ploče, and Dubrovnik), insert a map of the sites
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Authors
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
Significant improvements have been made in version 2 and do not have any recommendation. Congratulation for prepared research.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
Thank you for your valuable guidance.
Best regards,
Authors
