Planning deep‐water ports

Abstract

The objective of the study was to find the developments giving the least total cost of transporting all the BSC's foreign ore requirements from the loading ports to the user works. The basic method adopted was to split the project into two stages: 1. The first stage to consist of a ‘snapshot view’ of one year in the future, in which a comparison of the transport costs of foreign ore could be made without considering the existing facilities. Limiting the study to the proposed deep‐water ports ensured the identification of the most attractive combinations of port developments for the future and the factors most crucial to the outcome. 2. The second stage to carry out the detailed planning of the investments and operations through time so as to enable the best decisions to be made on each investment. These decisions covered the timing of the developments and the methods of operation associated with them—and so required investigation of the existing ports.

Citation

Beattie, C.J., Brown, A.P. and Norris, M.E. (1970), "Planning deep‐water ports", Management Decision, Vol. 4 No. 4, pp. 55-61. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb000951