Port Engineering

This course covers many topics including shipping lines, container tankers, dry bulk, and port-centric logistics; it is a helpful, up-to-date resource for students of logistics and logistics professionals.

 

  • Examine the latest developments, knowledge, and practices taking place in logistics and supply chains within the shipping and port industry
  • Define maritime logistics value and its strategic significance
  • Provide a global perspective on the increasingly key area of logistics
  • Understand all the aspects of logistics including container shipping, dry and wet bulk shipping, and port-centric logistics
  • Define logistics hub and its applications for container ports and improve Supply chain accessibility and efficiency

 

  • Engineers and graduate engineers who want to receive some practical, specific applied knowledge and skills.
  • Structural designers - to help understand the various criteria and traps they may not have otherwise considered.
  • This course will benefit those who need to understand the ins and outs of a port development project and what all of the processes are about.
  • For senior people responsible for managing a new port design- this is a good foundation for understanding all key criteria and the logical process.

 

  • Maritime logistics in concept
  • Maritime logistics value defined
  • The strategic significance of maritime logistics value
  • Concluding remarks

 

  • Logistics and supply chain management
  • Logistics and transport
  • Global trade and international maritime trade
  • Global trade and international trade

 

  • Characteristics of intermodal transport
  • Containerisation of intermodal transport
  • Advantages of intermodal transport
  • Containerisation and the intermodal transport
  • Development of intermodal transport
  • Combined transport operators and their services
  • Towards innovative intermodal transport

 

  • The human element in science and theory
  • Effects on system performance and wellbeing
  • Unit 5: Developing Liner Service Networks In Container Shipping:
  • Background on container shipping
  • Configuration and design of liner shipping services
  • Shipping routes, network patterns, and port centrality

 

  • Background on container shipping
  • Configuration and design of liner shipping services
  • Shipping routes, network patterns, and port centrality

 

  • Supply chain integration in the maritime shipping industry
  • The impact of supply chain integration on shipping firm performance

 

  • Literature review
  • Container line logistics activities
  • Liner operator case studies
  • Strategic groups

 

  • Transfer components
  • Marine terminals
  • Contractual relationships
  • Cargo transfer procedures
  • Cargo losses

 

  • Dry bulk trade
  • Dry bulk fleet
  • Economies of dry bulk trade
  • Principles of dry bulk shipping logistics

  • Intermodality and seaport inland access
  • Intermodal terminal facilities
  • The dry port concept
  • Dry port examples in Europe

 

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