Ports and Waterways 2

1. Ports and Terminals

- General cargo- and multipurpose terminals: non-containerised general cargo, number of berths and quay length, storage area and overall terminal layout, multipurpose terminals

- Ro/ro and ferry terminals: lay-out ro/ro and ferry terminals, special design aspects

- Liquid bulk terminals: oil- and gas carriers, nature of the products, terminals, the berth, jetties, dolphins, storage areas, offshore terminals

- Dry bulk terminals: dry bulk commodities, dry bulk ships, unloading systems, loading systems, on-terminal handling and storage, climatic and environmental considerations

- Fishery ports: types of fishery ports, site selection, fishing vessels, port planning, unloading equipment, fishery port organisation and management

- Marinas; yachting and yachts, the general layout of the port, basins and berths, port structures

- Ports and terminals for inland water transport: vessels, types of ports, terminals

2. Capacities of inland waterways: explanation terms used, operational capacity, intensity, density, water resistance, ship speed

- Open waterways: calculation methods based on knowledge and experience, virtual area, simulation

- Closed waterways: lock cycle, lock capacity, passing times, cycle times, and waiting times

- Vessel traffic service: history, radar systems, VTS- Amsterdam-Tiel, registration and utilisation, River Information Systems

- Safety: safety in general, risk analysis, probability of failure in practice, codes

3. Service systems in ports and inland waterways

- Deterministic and stochastic models

- Simulation tools: random numbers, sampling from distribution functions, used for the description of port- and inland navigation systems

- Computer simulation models: description methods, components, and attributes, the structure of the computer model; examples of simulation models

- Analysis of input- and output: data characteristics of the relevant distribution functions, Chi-square test, Kolmogorov Smirnov test.