THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS EXPERIENCE WITH MULTIPORT ANALYSIS

In 1982, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works William Ginanelli asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to develop procedures for analyzing deep draft ports, which included data and analysis of competing ports. The basic problem was defined to be the need for a methodology to identify the traffic which could swing from or to the port under study with modest shifts in relative costs (between ports). A multiport analysis approach was developed by the Corps of Engineers and used to evaluate potential benefits due to savings on the land leg and port cost differentials. Combined land leg, port and ocean leg costs were then obtained for the port under study and its competing ports. Finally, the conditions under which some part of the traffic would logically be diverted from one port to another were discerned. A case study is presented in this paper to illustrate how the methodology works.

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  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Circular No. 332, Ports, Waterways, Intermodal Terminals, and International Trade Transportation Issues: Proceedings of the 12th Annual Summer Conference, July 7-10, 1987, Norfolk, Virginia. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
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• Authors:
  • Antle, L G
• Publication Date: 1988-4

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 35-38
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Circular
  • Issue Number: 332
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0097-8515

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Benefits; Case studies; Competition; Costs; Methodology; Ports; Traffic diversion
• Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Highways; Marine Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00486097
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Aug 31 1989 12:00AM