This article aims to identify how measures that promote sustainability in freight transportation can affect the environmental performance of a load trip generator. To achieve this goal the method proposed by Guimarães and Leal Jr (2013) was applied in the evaluation of Sepetiba Tecon Terminal, which is part of the Port of Itaguai. Economic and environmental aspects were evaluated considering some attributes, such as value of service that refers to the service produced and environmental influence that refers to energy consumption, emission of greenhouse gases, air pollution, water pollution and ground water consumption and material consumption. Were considered road vehicles and cargo handling equipment to estimate the emission of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) and air pollutants related to port activity. It was also performed a sensitivity analysis. This analysis had the intention to assess changes that may occur due to the difference in the weights assigned to each indicator used in the analysis and see how this variation changes the outcome.
load trip generators; environmental performance; application of method