Towards a Framework for Sustainable Port Site Selection

Nowadays, the drive towards green field port development is accompanied by a general trend towards sustainable development. The location of a port is critical for its long-term success. However, port-related literature, until the publication of a recent PIANC report, offered limited guidance over a sustainable site selection process. A method...

Ports and Terminals

By nature port planning is a multidisciplinary activity. It involves expertise in the field of transport economics, shipping, nautical matters, safety and logistics. But also knowledge of waves and currents, sediment transport and coastal morphology, dredging and land reclamation, and design of breakwaters and quays. Hence port planning is...

The role of Dutch civil engineering in modern port planning in Japan (1870s–1890s)

In the mid-nineteenth century, civil engineering and technological innovation began to play a major role in the modernization and westernization of Japan. From the 1870s to the 1890s, Dutch civil engineers worked with Japanese practitioners on the design of Japanese ports, a key starting point for urban development. This article explores the...

The Flexible Port

Ports are beset with many uncertainties about their futures. They are confronted with new demands in terms of functions and scales, new external constraints, and changed expectations. The inability to adequately meet these demands can mean costly adaptations for a port, or loss of cargo and competitive position. A plausible reason is that the...

Flexibility in Port Planning and Design

Recently, flexibility has received much attention from port researchers, designers, and managers. This is because the stability of the competitive environment of the past has been replaced by increasing uncertainty. The current economic crisis and the recent trends in ports and shipping sectors are causing port planners to rethink their approach...

Zeehavenontwikkeling in Nederland: Naar een beter beleidsvormingsproces

Sea Ports are of vital importance to the Dutch economy. If port expansion is perceived necessary by the port authorities, they contact local public authorities (i.e. Mayor & Aldermen). Besides the authorities, most other stakeholders recognize port expansion as a basic need as well. Port planning is carried out according to the procedures of...

Ports and Terminals

Maritime transport, port functions, principles of integrated port planning, planning and design of a port's water areas, landside planning and design, container terminals.

Policy analysis methodology

Introductory lecture on policy analysis and decision making, with a focus on decision makers in ports and harbours.

Innovation in shortsea shipping: Self-loading and -unloading unitload shipsystems (S-curve shift in the handling of unitloads)

This book is not about the technology of a selfloading and unloading ship system, but about the constraints and conditions under which shortsea shipping can compete against other modes, on the level of transit time, frequency of departure, quality of service and of course, in price. The environmental benefits will be treated "pro-memorie" in...

Ports and Terminals: Planning and Functional Design

1. Maritime transport, means and commodities 3. Principles of integrated port planning 4. Planning and design of a port's water areas 5. Port terminals - introduction 6. Conventional general cargo terminals 7. Container terminals 8. Oil & liquid gas terminals 9. Dry bulk cargo terminals 10. Fishery ports 11. Marinas 12. Ports and terminals for...

Havens: Havens en scheepvaartwegen

Vervoersobjecten en vervoersmiddelen, nautical aspects of port planning, conventionele stukgoedafhandeling, beginselen van de havenplanning, visserijhavens, marinas, binnenhavens.

The use of discrete computer simulation models for harbours in developing countries

In the past usually the queueing theory was used to determine the number of berths and with that the quay length. This analytic method can be applied when it is acceptable to create a very simple model by schematization of the so called real life system. In most cases however it is not possible to schematize to such an extend that the model...

Harborsim, a generally applicable harbour simulation model

Every planning of a port development or design of a new harbour is confronted with the unique physical properties and related problems to be solved. On the other hand every port can be defined as a link in the transport chain involved in the transfer of cargo from one medium of transport to another. Every port and its connected transhipment...

Havensimulatiemodellen

Teneinde te kunnen vaststellen op welke wijze de efficiency van een haven op een bepaald moment is te verbeteren of te kunnen voorspellen welke problemen zullen ontstaan in de toekomst wanneer bijvoorbeeld de verkeersomstandigheden zich wijzigen, is het noodzakelijk effekten te kunnen berekenen van iedere verandering in de randvoorwaarden van...