Print Email Facebook Twitter Project Walvis Bay: Iintegrated approach for the long-term development of the Port of Walvis Bay Title Project Walvis Bay: Iintegrated approach for the long-term development of the Port of Walvis Bay Author De Vries, P. Brouwer, M. Bresser, G. Lavies, H. Moen, J. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 2012-10-19 Abstract The objective of the project is to ‘develop a financially- and technically feasible development strategy for the Port of Walvis Bay, taking account of the uncertainties of future events’. As there is a high degree of uncertainty in the future demands for services, the attention is focussed on designing a development strategy that maximizes the flexibility of the port.NamPort announced plans for expanding the port back in 2008, after which construction of the first phase should have commenced in 2011. However, due to reluctance of investors, the project’s Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) phase has been cancelled indefinitely by the port authority. NamPort is now accepting new tenderers to both build and finance the expansion. They are confident that the construction phase will begin in early 2013, targeting full operation in 2016. The expansion will accommodate a container terminal, eventually quadrupling the port’s handling capacity up to one million TEU’s annually. According to container throughput forecasts, the demand for services may however reach the increased handling capacity as soon as 2019/2020. The objective of this project is to recommend a strategy on how to develop the port on the long-term, scoping at a design lifetime of half a century. Subject NamibiaPort PlanningWalvisbaaicontainer port To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7e453d89-6d20-4d19-83b9-a20dde17b545 Publisher TU Delft, Section Hydraulic Engineering Source Master project report Part of collection Student theses Document type student report Rights (c) 2012 The authors Files PDF Walvis_Bay_South_Afrika_2012.pdf 21.67 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:7e453d89-6d20-4d19-83b9-a20dde17b545/datastream/OBJ/view