Print Email Facebook Twitter Masterplan for the Port of Meulaboh Title Masterplan for the Port of Meulaboh Author Martin Soberon, A.M. Contributor Ligteringen, H. (mentor) Soons, F.A.M. (mentor) Clijncke, A. (mentor) Hamoen, G. (mentor) Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Date 2008-07-02 Abstract In December 24th 2004 an earthquake caused a tsunami that devastated the coast areas of about 10 countries. Nowadays, these areas are still being rebuilt. Communication and transport infrastructures like ports are considered of vital importance for the regional development given that they facilitate the re-construction works, the distribution of goods and the passenger flow. The port of Meulaboh (Sumatra, Indonesia) was placed 200 km far from the place where the earthquake epicentre took place and was practically destroyed by the tsunami waves. After the catastrophe a jetty was built by the Singaporean Red Cross as a temporary structure. Presently it forms part of the UNDP recovery programme which intends to build a port to replace the facilities that used to be before the December 2004 catastrophe. For that reason the present situation of Meulaboh port is identified and its boundary conditions analysed in order to plan several possible layout alternatives according to the minimum requirements. The most suitable alternative for the port is identified by a Multi-Criteria Evaluation which takes into account the safety against future tsunami events. Once the most promising alternative has been selected it is developed in further detail given conceptual designs of the hydraulic structures and a detailed design of the protection works: a land-connected rubble mound breakwater. Also some tsunami mitigation and protection measures that can be applied to this layout are included. Finally some conclusions and recommendations for further studies about the project are given. Subject portIndonesiamasterplantsunamigeneral cargo To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:297cb221-c112-4f7d-9764-7c073aa11ac3 Publisher TU Delft, Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Hydraulic Engineering Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2008 A.M. Martin Soberon Files PDF ceg_martinsoberon_2008.pdf 8.13 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:297cb221-c112-4f7d-9764-7c073aa11ac3/datastream/OBJ/view