Economic competitiveness of rail transport to the port of Bahía Blanca

Due to a global increase in food consumption and shipping, and regional developments like exploitation of the Vaca Muerta oil field, the port of Bahía Blanca in Argentina sees an opportunity to increase its activities. Therefore, a new container terminal will be constructed in the port of Bahía Blanca that can handle 500,000 TEU per year. This...

Design of the input and output cargo flows for a Fast-Track at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

Amsterdam Aiport Schiphol (AAS) has the ambition of becoming Europe's cargo preferred airport. However, in addition to facing spare capacity for future growth, past research has shown key issues preventing it from reaching this goal. Some of these are truck waiting times, long throughput times and 1st line warehouse efficiency. One of the...

Multi-Perspective Design of a Fast-Track Facility for Cargo Transhipment at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol expects growing cargo volumes in the future. At the same time, due to the expansion of passenger terminals, the cargo handling terminals at Schiphol are relocated and bundled on a smaller area at AAS South-East. The question is: how to handle increasing cargo volumes on a smaller area? One of the opted means to reach a...

Development of container transshipment port on Ihavandhippolhu Atoll, Maldives

Ihavandhippolhu is located on the most northern Atoll of the Maldives. There are two advantages of its location that are the reasons for this study on a container transshipment port. The first is the short distance to the main East-West shipping routes. Second, the central position in the Indian Ocean implies short feeder distances (see Figure 2...

Ondergronds distributiecentrum MTC Valburg

In het stedelijk Knooppunt Arnhem-Nijmegen wordt gewerkt aan de ontwikkeling van een multimodaal transportcentrum (MTC) Valburg. Het MTC Valburg is een samenhangend concept waarbinnen verschillende logistieke en daarvan afgeleide functies zijn gekoppeld aan vervoer per trein, over de weg en over water. Door deze functies op een locatie met...