INTRODUCTION
This course aims to introduce the student with the basics of port management and feasibility of port investments. In this context the issues such as port site selection, port concession decisions, port profitability, port construction, maintenance methods, port site planning and etc. will be explored. Real life examples from the Mediterranean and the World will also be studied upon.
PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES
- Surveying of port and terminal operations
- Understanding legal and bureaucratic procedures in ports and terminals
- Providing information about economic feasibility in ports and terminals
- Providing information about commercial maritime management
- Understanding economic and financial management of ports
- Understanding basic parameters of port investment
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Seafarers / Naval Architects
- Harbor Masters / State Employee in Transportation and Shipping Fields
- Shipping Sector Administrators and Personnel
- Transportation Administrators and Personnel
- Transportation and Shipping Sector Representatives (Government, Businesses, NGOs)
- Transportation and Shipping Sector Investors
PROGRAM OUTLINE
- Port area selection
- Obtaining concessions
- Port hinterland connections
- Port construction and dredging problems
- Appraisal of port value
- Port concessions and profitability
- Port concession and construction & financing
- Economic feasibility in port investments
- Port marketing
- Inter-modality and port planning
- Lease scheme
- Advice and support
- Ongoing consultations regarding concessions
- Concession tariffs
- General conditions
- Concession period
- Concession procedure
