Development of the hub port of Colombo, Sri Lanka

The Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka, is an important hub port in the Indian Ocean. A hub port is a port with mainly transhipment (and in this case container) throughput, which means that most of the cargo is not for the country itself, but for countries in the region. The yearly container throughput at the Port of Colombo reached its full capacity of...

Future Development of the Port of Caldera, Costa Rica

In this report the port of Caldera, Costa Rica is discussed. The port was constructed in 1981. It has 3 berths. The most important cargo for the port are grains (import), and containers (mainly import). Ofthe other cargo, tuna is the most important. Not for its amount, but because of the waiting time for tuna ships and the time needed to...

Computer simulation model international container terminal "Tanjung Perak" Surabaya, Indonesia

The Tanjung Perak harbour ofthe city of Surabaya on the island Java, Indonesia has experienced a considerable growth of container traffic. In order to adequately deal with the expected continuing increase ofcontainer traffic in the future, the International container terminal is presently being expanded. In future there will be three...