Print Email Facebook Twitter Development options for container terminal and set up of related industrial zone in Puerto Rico Title Development options for container terminal and set up of related industrial zone in Puerto Rico Author Kroes, J. Contributor Velsink, H. (mentor) Groenveld, R. (mentor) Van Ham, J.C. (mentor) Mol, A. (mentor) Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 1996-08-01 Abstract Puerto Rico is one of the Greater Antilles, situated in the Caribbean. To the west lie the other, larger islands of the Greater Antilles, while to the east the islands of the Lesser Antilles are situated. The largest port of Puerto Rico, the port of San Juan, is presently the number 17 container port in the world and the largest port in the Caribbean region. The greater part of the container throughput, about 95%, consists of containers originating from or destined for Puerto Rico. The remaining part does not leave the terminal by land, but is transferred from ship to ship, which is referred to as transshipment. Puerto Rico has a keen interest in becoming a major ransshipment hub in the Caribbean region. It would like to handle the ships sailing on the main sea trade routes. Containers coming from such ships would be distributed to the region by feeder ships, and this would result in additional throughput and possibilities for value added services. Presently the handling of such ships by the port of San Juan is obstructed for a number of reasons. Ships sailing on the main routes require large drafts. Having a draft of only 28 feet, not even the smallest ships of those routes could enter the port of San Juan. In fact, 60 to 70% of the vessels already have difficulties in entering the port because of the limited draft. Furthermore, the port is reported to be inefficient and expensive. This report analyses the potential of Puerto Rico to become a major transshipment hub and the requirements of such a hub. Two development options for the container port sector are worked out. In the first option dredging and restructuring of a part of the port of San Juan are suggested, which will enable ships to apply economies of scale and the restructured part to grow 40% in container throughput. However, the suggested improvements alone will not attract transshipment. The quays allow a draft of 41 feet which is still not sufficient to accommodate the large vessels, as employed on the primary routes. Further no land is available for valued added services. Finally some aspects are expected to be hard to change, for example the labour constraints, for which the port of San Juan will remain expensive. Subject container terminalPuerto RicoCaribbean Sea To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:61587297-924f-404f-9822-bfa453148fc1 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 1996 Kroes, J. Files PDF Kroes_1996.pdf 26.08 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:61587297-924f-404f-9822-bfa453148fc1/datastream/OBJ/view