Prefeasibility study for the Port of Itajai

In southern Brazil, in the province of Santa Catarina, the port of Itajai is situated. The port is located at the mouth of the river Itajai-Acu, about 3 km inland. The Port of Itajai is very important for both the local and national economy because of its role in foreign trade, and due to this prominent role in the community many stakeholders...

Port of Altamira, Mexico

Master project report. The Port of Altamira is one of the fast growing ports in the world and is together with Veracruz and Coatzacoalcos one of the biggest ports of Mexico at the Gulf coast. It is an industrial Port with a lot of potential for expanding. However, the breakwaters of the Port extending into the sea caused severe erosion at the...

Port expansion of Puerto de Lirquén, Chile

The container yard of the port of Lirquen will reach its capacity in a few years and the container terminal has no landward expansion possibilities to meet the future demand of container throughput. The bulk terminal has a lack of berths, due to increased throughput and insufficient depth, but does have possibilities for landward expansion....

Integrated coastal development Angoche, Mozambique

The analysis of the Socio-Economic system sets the engineering problems in a broader perspective. It answers why a technical problem should be solved and in what kind of socio- economic environment. An insight in recent history shows that Angoche once was an important port and town for the Nampula province. Agro-Industry was the main economic...

Maasvlakte 2, vanuit historisch perspectief; "Variant met doorgetrokken Hartelkanaal voor zeescheepvaart"

In deel 2 van het afstudeerwerk is een ontwerp gemaakt voor de uitbreiding van de Rotterdamse haven op basis van twee ontwerpplannen voor havenuitbreiding uit de jaren '70.

Buenos Aires port expansion 2020

Economic outlook and capacity of the port The port of Buenos Aires has known a large growth of container throughputs in the last few years: in 1991 233,000 TEU were handled, in 1995638,000 and in 1998 over 1.1 million TEU were handled by the container terminals in Puerto Nuevo and Dock Sud. The end of this growth is not expected soon and various...

Golfbrekerontwerp voor rustig golfklimaat ten behoeve van de havenuitbreiding van St. Eustatius, Nederlandse Antillen

Nadat een orkaanwaarschuwing voor het Caribisch gebied, waarin gelegen het eiland St. Eustatius, is afgegeven, vertrekken plezierjachten, cruise-schepen en vissersbootjes naar veilige gebieden, waardoor de haven van St. Eustatius geen functie heeft tijdens het passeren van een orkaan. In deze haalbaarheidsstudie is onderzocht of het mogelijk is...

Port Development in Shanghai

This project is situated at the Yangtze estuary in China with Shanghai as its main centre. An Estuary Decision Support System (EDSS) for the Westerschelde exists with different modules on each field of speciality. The Port Development Module (PDM) is a new module for the Yangtze-EDDS and deals with port development in the estuary. The report...

Ontwerp en optimalisatie van golfbrekers voor een haven

Port expansion project: Port of Phillipsburg St. Maarten Netherlands Antilles

The Sint Maarten Ports Authority (SMPA) , wishes to expand the present port of Phillipsburg, due to the increase of cargo throughput and forecast for the cruise tourism. The SMPA has appointed Grabowsky&Poort International BV as the main consultants for the port development. To give this report a more complete character, a summary of the Port...

Bengkulu Harbour Project

The Indonesian government is stimulating development of areas outside Java to increase the food production of the country and to decrease the population density on Java. Also the Bengkulu district on the west coast of Sumatra has to be developed. Important for development is a good infrastructure, and in an archipelago like Indonesia sea...