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Santos, T.A., Marques, M. and Guedes Soares, C., “Methodology and tools to design container terminals”, Maritime Technology and Engineering, Guedes Soares, C. & Santos T.A. (Eds.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, pp. 55-68
This paper presents a methodology for determining the characteristics of container terminals, allowing a better understanding of the suitability of existing methods for their basic design. This methodology starts from a traffic forecast and uses different approaches, including a statistical database and computational methods, to derive the terminal characteristics. The results of the different approaches are then compared aiming at their demonstration. This methodology is applied to a case study which is a new deep water terminal in Lisbon that has been suggested recently. The possible economic reasons for such a terminal, including a forecast of container traffic demand in a 20 year horizon, are presented. Based on these, a basic design of the required facilities is presented, including yard areas, quay lengths and quay and yard equipment. This case study, while being an example of application of the methods proposed, can however produce results that, despite the academic nature of the study, can help the public discussion of this project.
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