Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Water transport has an overwhelming contribution to international trade. Between 80% and 90% of commodity trading are carried out by means of maritime transport and inland waterway transport. Under these circumstances, the port acts as logistical centre which is crossed each year by major commodity flows. Based on these aspects, the research carried out was aimed to determine a set of parameters in order to facilitate the assessment of the performance of port services provided to ships and goods. The authors suggest a set of specific parameters. These parameters need to improve performance of berths operations, especially productivity, by substantially increasing traffic by using facilities, existing human and material resources, possibly with some small-scale investments. Port performance parameters were structured as follows: production parameters, service parameters, resource use parameters and productivity parameters. The research methodology will be used further to assess these indicators and integrate them into a comparative study of the Black Sea ports.
Author: Nicolae F.
Institution: Mircea cel Batran Naval Academy
Language: English
Topic: Maritime Ports and Logistics
Subfield: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3209309318