Print Email Facebook Twitter Economic competitiveness of rail transport to the port of Bahía Blanca Title Economic competitiveness of rail transport to the port of Bahía Blanca Author van Son, Kees (TU Delft Civil Engineering & Geosciences) van Zwieteren, Raymond (TU Delft Civil Engineering & Geosciences) Besier, Jorick (TU Delft Technology, Policy and Management) Robbertsen, Niels van Hees, Simon (TU Delft Civil Engineering & Geosciences) van der Storm, Geraldine (TU Delft Civil Engineering & Geosciences) Contributor Wiegmans, B. (mentor) Ludema, M.W. (mentor) Arecco, P (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Project CIE4061-09 Multidisciplinary Project Date 2020-01-31 Abstract Due to a global increase in food consumption and shipping, and regional developments like exploitation of the Vaca Muerta oil field, the port of Bahía Blanca in Argentina sees an opportunity to increase its activities. Therefore, a new container terminal will be constructed in the port of Bahía Blanca that can handle 500,000 TEU per year. This terminal is expected to be competitive to the container terminals in the port of Buenos Aires, which currently are Argentina’s market leaders in container handling. In addition, a shorter entry channel and deeper draft makes the port of Bahía Blanca more attractive than the port of Buenos Aires. Currently, it is unknown whether an increase in container throughput can be attracted from industries in the province of Buenos Aires. This province extends from Buenos Aires to Bahía Blanca, 650 km south of Buenos Aires. Next to that, it followed from qualitative interview sessions that all freight transport in the province is done by truck. As a result, roads are heavily congested during harvest season and for this reason container transport by train is preferred. Other reasons for choosing train as transport modality are the competitive location within the rail network of the port of Bahía Blanca and sustainable character of rail transport. Subject port of bahia blancabuenos airesrailtransshipmentcontainertransportinfrastructureargentina To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:378ec32e-8ea8-4569-9d6a-e09fea0d3bc3 Coordinates -38.71959 -62.27243 Part of collection Student theses Document type student report Rights © 2020 Kees van Son, Raymond van Zwieteren, Jorick Besier, Niels Robbertsen, Simon van Hees, Geraldine van der Storm Files PDF CP_Delft_2019_final.pdf 9.49 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:378ec32e-8ea8-4569-9d6a-e09fea0d3bc3/datastream/OBJ/view