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Summary Port and City Development - Minor Delta Port Cities
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Groningen SEAPORTS- Locations:
o Eemshaven
o Delfzijl
o Veendam
- Activities
o Maintenance
o Attract new costumers
o Developments
Market demands (existing costumers)
Opportunities (potential costumers)
o Public task
Guidance of shipping
- Top sectors:
o Chemical
15% total chemical production NL
o Energy
35% total electrical power production in Eemshaven
Biggest on-shore NL windpark
Ideal location datacenters
o Logistics
o Agribusiness
o Residues / Waste treatment
Cargo transport
- Macro-economics; transport and trade
- Governed by global developments
- Global scale; dominant role of shipping and ports
- Port system enabling cargo handling:
o Sea entrance
Deep sea shipping
Short sea shipping
o Port basins
o Quays
o Terminals
o Hinterland connections
Inland waterways
Railways
Road connections
Pipeline
- Regional scale: competition of various modes of transport
o Not only cost/capacity driven
o Co2 footprint more important
- Ports Throughput
o Dry bulk
Coal / ore / fertilizer / corn
, o Liquid bulk
Crude oil products / oil products / LNG, LPG / chemicals
o Containers
TEU, twenty feet equivalent unit (steel box 20 x 8 x 8)
FEU, forty feet equivalent unit (steel box 40 x 8 x 8)
Reefer-container (cooled container)
Tank-container
Over width, over height
o GC (general cargo)
Most GC is containerized after 19980, because:
Expensive and slow loading/unloading
Hinterland transport/logistics
Size advantage shipping
o Offshore supplies / Heavy lifts
o Cars
o Passengers / Cars / Trucks (by ferry)
o Visitors (cruises)
Shipping
- Main characteristics (marks)
o Dimension
Length / width / draught in meters
o Displacement / deadweight tonnage in tons
o Propulsion power kW / Service speed kn (knots)
- Safety
o Classification by international standards
Hull construction (romp constructie)
Engine maintenance
Instrumentation
Emergency aids
o Crew education level
o Pilotage compulsory for harbor areas
- Types of ships
o Type grading by:
Type of ship towards type of cargo
Ships’ size tuned towards transportation distance and cargo flow
Cargo flow = amount of cargo per unit of time
Exceptions are combinations of types of cargo
o Coasters (short sea)
Range 2..000 dwt (dead weight tonnage)
meters long
Speed is about 12 knots
o Inland shipping
Range .000 dwt
meters long
Speed is knots
o Container vessels
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