| Contents | |
| Section 1 | Port management |
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Port development vs. technological development: the challenge of keeping the pace; Port expansion and public-private partnership: the case of Rotterdam; Enemy at the gates: Introduction of Multi-Agents in a terminal information community; Port management games; Inter-modality in the ports and sustainability of the EU freight transport; Institutional reforms in Lebanon’s commercial ports: opportunities and challenges; Methods of comparative plotting of the ship’s position; Implementation of marine regulations in decision support systems for vessel traffic services; Analytical models for Ro-Ro and Lo-Lo terminals in a multipurpose port; System simulation for the evaluation of the oil barge operation in Kaohsiung harbor, Taiwan |
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| Section 2 | Environmental aspects |
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Marina development and environmental impact assessment requirements - the case of Lefkada Marina; Critical aspects in the application to ports of directive 96/82/EC; Environmental management of port oil terminals; Evaluation of beeswax based petroleum bioremediation products; Study of fishery networks in Japan |
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| Section 3 | Hydrodynamic aspects |
| A DBIEM analysis of free surface oscillations in arbitrary shaped harbours; Finite element modelling of floating pier units in personal computers; Some considerations about the bound long waves evaluation; Long-term wind climate in a large oceanic island harbour | |
| Section 4 | Construction and design of ports |
| Klaipeda port entrance rehabilitation project; The development of a breakwater design at Caleta La Mision Port, Argentina | |
| Section 5 | Marine engineering works |
| Spreadsheet modeling of optimum maintenance strategy for marine machinery in wear-out phase subject to distance between ports as one of the maintenance constraints; UK port mitre gates – time for modernisation; Impounding gates for marina and harbour navigation use; Monitoring of marina construction, Gulf of Suez, Egypt; A jacket turning procedure applied to dock construction | |
| Section 6 | Container systems |
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The effects of the market concentration in the maritime transport on the strategies of the container terminal operators; Life cycle feasibility of a new type of container handling system; Towards the economic operation of a to be privatized ferry system - The case of the Rozenburg-Maassluis ferry in the Port of Rotterdam |
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