1. Introduction: Shipping industry and induced air pollution
1.1 Potential impacts of maritime transport air emissions
1.2 Growing rates of shipping trade and environmental profile of maritime industry
2. Mitigation of air emissions: existing policy actions and legislation
2.1 Current environmental policies
2.2 Kyoto Protocol
2.3 Marpol Convention
3. Ships' emissions and air quality in port-cities
3.1 Current methodologies for the estimation of maritime emissions
3.2 Relevant studies on shipping emissions
3.2 Examples of estimated emissions in ports
4. Economic and social cost of in-port ships' emissions
4.1 Estimating the effects ships activities in ports to air quality and human health
4.2 External costs of vessel emissions in ports
5. Available abatement measures for the unwanted environmental impacts of ships at berth
5.1 Techniques of in-port emissions' abatement
5.2 Potential of Shore Side Electricity in Europe
5.3 How ports can be converted to "green" ports?