Scheveningen Harbour Project

The Hague Municipality, which is responsible for Scheveningen Harbour, is seeking solutions for two problems it is currently facing: reorganization/expansion of Scheveningen Harbour considering the shortage of marina places and the future demands; and connection of the north and south sides of the harbour, namely, bridging De Pijp. CoMEM TU...

Jamaica’s new transshipment port

When the new locks of the Panama Canal are finished in 2015 Post Panamax vessels are able to sail through the Panama Canal. This will increase the container traffic intensity through the Caribbean. China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) wants to anticipate on this expansion of the Panama Canal by investing in a US$1.5 billion transshipment...

Transshipment port in the Rio de la Plata

The predictions for the future foretell an increase of the amount of exported grain over the Rio Paraná/Rio de la Plata system of 63% in 2030. Besides this, the new Panama locks will be finished in 2015. Seeing as the current shipping standard is largely determined by the Panama locks, the general expectation is that the vessel dimensions will...

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....

Masterplan zur 'Optimierung des Automobil-Logistic-Centers in Bremerhaven'

Bremerhaven ist im Bereich der nordeuropäischen Häfen einer der wichtigsten Standorte für Automobilumschlag und gehört weltweit zu den größten Autohäfen. 2001 wurden mehr als 1,2 Mio. Fahrzeuge auf dem Autoterminal, der sich über gut 200 ha ausdehnt, umgeschlagen. Die Struktur der Stellflächen und die seewärtige Anbindung sind beim heutigen...

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...

Havenfaciliteiten voor LNG electriciteitscentrale aan de Golf van Mannar, Zuid-India

Indian Power Projects Limited (IPPL) heeft het voornemen om een 2500 MW grote "Combined Cycle Gas Turbine" electriciteitscentrale te bouwen. De locatie van de electriciteitscentrale is gepland in het dorpje Vembar, in de provincie Tamil Nadu in Zuid-India. Ten behoeve van de gasvoorziening voor deze electriciteitscentrale zal Liquified Natural...

Combi-terminal: Studie naar het toepassen van het combi-terminal concept op een moderne marine terminal

De kaden bij de marine containerterminals in Noord-Westeuropa hebben een lage bezettingsgraad. De investeringen in de kaden leveren daardoor een laag rendement op. Als oplossing voor dit probleem is het combi-terminal concept naar voren gekomen in de voorgaande studie "Innovatief kade-concept". Bij dit concept worden naast containerschepen ook...

De haven van Rades (Tunesië)

Nabij Tunis, de hoofdstad van Tunesië (Noord-Afrika), bevinden zich drie haventerreinen die gezamenlijk het complex Tunis/La Goulette/Radès vormen. De haven van Tunis wordt binnenkort gesloten voor commercieel scheepvaartverkeer. De in 1986 geopende haven van Radès is opgebouwd uit twee aparte haventerreinen, een gespecialiseerd terrein voor de...

Pipavav Port Project: Basic Dimensions of the port facilities, based on the traffic forecast, volume 1

The pipavav port in western Gujarat, India, will be developed in two phases, one projected for 1997 and the second for 2010. In the first phase four terminals are projected on the northern side of the bay. (See appendix II for a map of the project site.) One of these terminals will be a multi-purpose terminal for the handling of bagged rice and...

A computer simulation modelling study for port planning of main public terminal, port of Palembang, South Sumatera, Indonesia

The main problem which will be solved in this study is that concerning the Main Public Terminal (MPT) capacity: berthing, cargo handling and cargo storage capacity within the time span of development plan, up to 2005. The objective of the development plan is then defined, i.e. to provide MPT the least-cost of port operation consisting of port...