UNDERSTANDING THE MODERN PORT
Specifying correctly the parameters of cargo handling facilities can have a significant impact on cost effectiveness of liner shipping operations. Whilst these factors may not be wholly concerned with the ship's cargo, a port is the singular means by which a maritime function is converted into revenue. In turn, this link must understand its relationship to the market place and react accordingly. Without taking care to integrate several key aspects of this function into an overall strategy, a ship owner will be over charged and under serviced. Such is the speed and complexity of cargo flow and the ease of communication, it is no longer practicable to operate a ship independently of its integration within a service. This interdependence is a development that has happened within a short space of time and within recent memory. There is still a strong and understandable tendency for maritime custom to prevail with insular habits at odds with the real intent. The port, therefore, has to recognise and support both the commercial and marine needs of the ship and the logistical demands of cargo movement from the landside. The commercial criteria are position, port and cargo unit costs, stability and cargo liftings. Marine criteria are access, maintenance and repair facilities, operational support and personnel needs whilst cargo criteria are again access, capacity, resources and performance. (Author)
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Supplemental Notes:
- Published in Association with China Communications and Transportation Association.
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Authors:
- McBride, D F
- Publication Date: 1985
Media Info
- Features: Photos;
- Pagination: p. 70-72
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Serial:
- China Transport
- Volume: 1
- Issue Number: 2
- Publisher: China Nuclear Information Centre
- ISSN: 0258-3259
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Cost effectiveness; Freight handling; Operations; Ports
- Uncontrolled Terms: Criteria
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Freight Transportation; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I10: Economics and Administration;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00450626
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Aug 27 2004 9:56PM