Overview
- Editors:
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Jürgen W. Böse
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Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany
- Presents the complete state of the art in Container Terminal design, management, and planning
- Provides solutions and insights for practitioners and researchers
- Contributors are leading figures in CT research and practice
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Basic Aspects: Technologies & Instruments
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- Joan C. Rijsenbrij, Armin Wieschemann
Pages 61-82
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- ma-co maritimes competenzcentrum
Pages 117-132
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Planning Area
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Front Matter
Pages 133-133
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Planning Area, Terminal Quayside
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- Sönke Hartmann, Jennifer Pohlmann, Axel Schönknecht
Pages 135-154
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- Frank Meisel, Christian Bierwirth
Pages 155-178
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- Günther Pawellek, Axel Schönknecht
Pages 195-215
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Planning Area
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Front Matter
Pages 217-217
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Planning Area, Terminal Yard
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- Jörg Wiese, Leena Suhl, Natalia Kliewer
Pages 219-245
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- Marco Caserta, Silvia Schwarze, Stefan Voß
Pages 247-269
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Planning Area
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Front Matter
Pages 303-303
About this book
Container Terminals (CT) operate as central nodes in worldwide hub-and-spoke networks and link ocean-going vessels with smaller feeder vessels as well as with inbound and outbound hinterland transportation systems using road, rail, or inland waterways. The volume of transcontinental container flows has gained appreciably over the last five decades -- throughput figures of CT reached new records, frequently with double-digit annual growth rates. Stimulated by throughput requirements and stronger competition between terminals settled in the same region or serving a similar hinterland, respectively, cost efficiency and throughput capabilities become more and more important. Nowadays, both terminal capacity and costs have to be regarded as key indicators for CT competitiveness. In respect of this steady growth, this handbook focuses on planning activities being aimed at “order of magnitude improvements” in terminal performance and economic viability. On the one hand the book is intended to provide readership with technological and organizational CT basics for strategic planning. On the other hand this book offers methodical assistance for fundamental dimensioning of CT in terms of 'technique', 'organization' or 'man'. The former primarily considers comprehensive information about container handling technologies representing the state of the art for present terminal operations, while the latter refers to methodological support comprising in particular quantitative solutions and modeling techniques for strategic terminal decisions as well as straightforward design guidelines. The handbook includes an introductory contribution which gives an overview of strategic planning problems at CT and introduces the contributions of the volume with regard to their relationship in this field. Moreover, each paper contains a section or paragraph that describes the impact of findings investigated by the author(s) for problem-solving in long-term planning of CT (as anapplication domain). The handbook intends to provide solutions and insights that are valuable for both practitioners in industry who need effective planning approaches to overcome problems and weaknesses in terminal design/development and researchers who would like to inform themselves about the state of the art in methodology of strategic terminal planning or be inspired by new ideas. That is to say, the handbook is addressed to terminal planners in practice as well as to students of maritime courses of study and (application oriented) researchers in the maritime field.
Editors and Affiliations
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Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany
Jürgen W. Böse