Este trabalho avalia a viabilidade financeira da concessão de um novo Porto Organizado hipotético, focado exclusivamente nas operações de contêineres, respeitando os condicionantes impostos pela nova legislação portuária brasileira. Parte-se da compreensão dos fundamentos da regulação, contextualiza-se a institucionalização do novo modelo de concessão de portos no Brasil e detalham-se as etapas a serem percorridas e as entidades envolvidas em cada processo. A concepção do novo porto garante representatividade da realidade brasileira para operações de contêineres. Os racionais de dimensionamento foram definidos de acordo com as características dos principais terminais do país, considerando ajustes necessários, em consequência do aumento de comprimento das embarcações que deverão passar a frequentar os portos nacionais. A ferramenta financeira foi estruturada e parametrizada em consonância com a norma para arrendamentos de instalações portuárias, e avalia o valor presente líquido dos fluxos de caixa livres. O trabalho conclui que a concessão de um novo porto de contêineres com escala compatível com os volumes brasileiros é inviável financeiramente, quando se considera 100% dos investimentos em infra e superestrutura. O projeto torna-se viável nos casos em que o poder público realiza parte significativa dos investimentos ou em regiões onde os volumes sejam suficientes para permitir um terminal de seis berços. / This study evaluates the financial feasibility of the concession of a conceptual public port dedicated exclusively to the handling of containers, developed under the recently published Brazilian port industry legislation. The study begins with a comprehensive understanding of the basic principles of the current legislation, followed by a contextualization of the creation of the concession model for public port development by private enterprise. The steps and institutions involved in the concession process are then detailed. The features of the port designed in this study are similar to those of most container terminals in Brazil. The dimensioning rationales were defined in accordance to the characteristics of the main Brazilian container terminals, taking also into account the necessary adaptations associated with the increasing length of the ships that will be servicing the national ports in the next years. A financial model, which evaluates the net present value of the free cash flows, was built and parameterized in compliance with the norm regulating the leasing of public port facilities. The study concludes that the development of a new public port under concession, considering a demand level similar to that of most Brazilian container terminals and 100% of investments in infrastructure and superstructure carried out by the concessionaire, is not financially feasible. The venture becomes financially feasible if the government undertakes a significant portion of the capital expenditures or if the port is set in a region where the demand justifies the construction of 6 berths.

Recently, with the relocation of major international trades fromEuro-America to Asia, all Asia-Pacific countries have been building moreand more harbors to compete for trade opportunities. Among them, Chinais an outstanding case. In this wave of harbor booming, the number ofcontainers in Kaohsiung grows stagnantly. As a neighboring country to those developing area, we should feel threatened. There are various keys to the successful management of harbor. Efficiency of operation is the major concern of most shipping companies. Aside from facilities and equipments, efficiency of ports operation must also depend on management. In this thesis, I propose that the electronification of operation procedures and information exchange is the key to efficient management and the building of a new business model. In this paper, I use Kaohsiung Port as my case of study. Employing Inter-Organizational system structure analysis, I will first analyze the business challenges Kaohsiung faces as well as providepossible response strategies. Through methods of management and support of information technology, how can we create a more competitive organization? Secondly, through interviewing different shipping companies, I will know to what degree the management and information exchange has been electronified.I propose that a new information platform must be built up to fasten operation and improve ports logistic issues. In this thesis, I will show that single service platform of ports operation, electronification of management and the establishment of new e-business model of operation can help to make ports operation more efficient and therefore enhance capacity for competition. Based on this model of management, I will conclude that this strategy can also be applied to ports with similar structure.

Texte remanié de: Thèse de doctorat--Histoire--Paris 1, 2000. Titre de soutenance : Bougie, port maghrébin à la fin du Moyen âge : 1067-1510. / Bibliogr. p. 708-754. Notes bibliogr. Index.

Tesi per compendi de publicacions / Climate change is a hot research topic due to the consequent impacts on our environment in the near future. The last report of the International Panel on Climate Change¿the leading international body for assessment of climate change¿highlights a lack of information on the potential changes in wave climate and, consequently, on their coastal impacts. The problem is largely complicated because wave forcing is affected by a number of uncertainty factors, being the choice of the climate model one of the most relevant. The main purpose of this thesis is to provide a better understanding of the future wave climate in the area of interest: the Catalan coast, which is located in the NW part of the Mediterranean Sea, a basin particularly exposed to climate change. Based on previous studies, three methodological approaches are explored to address this issue: trend analysis, dynamical modelling and statistical modelling. The thesis work results in the generation and analysis, for the first time in this area, of a high temporal and spatial resolution database of future wave projections. The use in this thesis of atmospheric projections obtained by five combinations of regional-global climate models enables the study of the inter-model variability in terms of wave parameters. The results illustrate, for the winter season, the large variability associated to the parent global circulation model (particularly for the wave direction, a wave variable that seems to be especially affected by climate change in this area). In most of the domain, wave height and wave period tend to generally decrease for both mean and stormy conditions but extremes are associated to a large uncertainty. As expected, these changes are closely related to those of the (wave forcing) surface wind speed but fetch also plays an important role. For favourable fetch conditions (waves coming from east) wave climate changes are more accentuated and to the percentage of mixed sea states tends to increase. The second important contribution of this thesis is related with the methodology. New approaches of trend analysis that take into consideration the nature of the data are presented. Also, especial emphasis is given to the uncertainty analysis in order to detect statistically significant changes. In this regard, bootstrapping is shown to be a simple but effective method if adequately modified. Nevertheless, the most significant methodological contribution is perhaps the development of a new (computationally inexpensive) statistical method to model wave heights, that greatly improves the model performance at nearshore areas. The frequency and directional dispersion theory of wave propagation is used to explicitly model swell waves, making use of the principal component analysis to simplify the forcing into a set of representative atmospheric patterns. Finally, from an engineering perspective, this thesis reviews and quantifies the main physical impacts that changes in ocean wave patterns can have on coastal areas. It is found that mild variations of forcing wave conditions can greatly affect coastal processes, due to their non-linear relation. For example, longshore sediment transport can vary at a rate higher than 100% caused by a rotation of the mean wave direction of only 10º. Getting into more detail, a couple of case studies on the Catalan coast analyse the affectation on harbour agitation and longshore sediment transport on beaches.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Simon Fraser University, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-168).

Thesis (M.A.)--San Diego State College, 1970.

Thèse d'Etat--Paris I, 1994.

Diss. Göteborg : Univ., 2003.

La concesión es una figura jurídica que data desde los tiempos del medioevo y sin embargo, es en estos últimos diecisiete años ha adquirido una importante notoriedad en el ámbito político, económico y social dentro de la actividad pública y privada. La aplicación de la citada figura jurídica, con especial relevancia en el sector portuario nos permite desarrollar la presente investigación desde un punto de vista doctrinal (antecedentes de la concesión y opinión de expertos en la materia), jurisprudencial (análisis de casos reales) y normativo (aplicación del ordenamiento jurídico), y nos permite, en primer lugar, entender qué es y para qué fue creada, y observar si actualmente se le otorga el uso bajo el cual fue concebida y para el cual, creemos, alcanzaría sus resultados más eficientes. En segundo lugar, nos otorga la posibilidad de realizar una comparación sistemática respecto a cómo ha sido y viene siendo utilizada en dos concesiones portuarias que ya tienen una considerable duración para poder ser analizadas y evaluadas, y así poder determinar cuáles son los pros y cuáles son los contras de emplear la concesión, para así decidir si debemos seguir con ella, y en caso la respuesta fuera positiva, saber que modificar y también que mejorar. En tercer lugar, nos sirve de indicador para ver como nuestra legislación sectorial vigente se corresponde con los cambios que ocurren en la actualidad en el mundo del comercio marítimo y la industria portuaria y, en lo que respecta a esta investigación, como el derecho puede servir de herramienta para optimizar nuestro ordenamiento jurídico y que éste sirva de apoyo para el uso eficiente de la figura jurídica con el consecuente beneficio de los agentes involucrados y de manera supletoria, del país en general. / Tesis

Baltijos jūros pakrantėje gyvenantys baltai jau nuo I a. palaikė mainų ir prekybos ryšius su kitais kraštais. Krašto geografinė padėtis skatino laivybos plėtotę, todėl jau XII-XIII a. Baltijos jūroje suklestėjo jūrininkystė. Jūrų transportas apima keleivių ir krovinių vežimą. Lietuvoje jūrų transportu pervežama daugiau kaip 30% krovinių. Šis transportas reikalauja didžiausių krovos ir mažiausių gabenimo išlaidų. Klaipėdos uostas tarp rytinės Baltijos jūros uostų yra 3 vietoje (pagal 2008 m. krovą). Lietuvos mokyklose per mažai nagrinėjami uostai bei problemos, su kuriomis jie susiduria. Uostų svarba šalies ekonomikai yra labai didelė, tačiau atlikus tyrimą mokykloje buvo padarytos išvados, jog mokiniai neturi bendro suvokimo apie šiuos ekonomiškai svarbius punktus. Lietuvos visuomenė per daug atitrūkus nuo jūros, o galbūt niekada ir nebuvo tokia artima jūrai kaip mūsų kaimyninės šalys. Todėl šis darbas buvo skirtas atlikti Rytų Baltijos jūros uostų analizei (pagal krovą ir keleivių srautus) bei pabandyti ją pritaikyti edukologijoje. Atlikus tyrimą paaiškėjo, jog mokiniai labai mažai žino apie kaimyninių šalių uostus, taip pat negali pasakyti kuo Klaipėda išsiskiria iš kitų Baltijos jūros uostų. Teoriškai šį darbą galima suskirstyti į dvi stambias dalis. Darbo tema pirmoje dalyje analizuojama iš gamtinės - ekonominės pusės, o antra dalis – iš edukologinės. Smulkiau skirstant darbą sudaro 11 dalių. 8 – 10 dalyse išanalizuoti atskirų Rytų Baltijos jūros šalių uostai, tokie... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The Baltic tribes inhabiting the shores of the Baltic Sea had trade and business relations with other countries since the first century. The countries geographical position encouraged the navigation development that is why the prosperity of the Baltic seamanship was inevitable in XII-XIII centuries. The sea transportation involves both people and cargo transportation. In Lithuania more than 30% of cargo is transported by sea. This means of transportation requires the biggest amount of loading capability but the cheapest expenses. Klaipeda seaport is in the third place according 2008 loading among Baltic Seaports. In Lithuania’s schools there is too little attention to studies of the seaports’ problems. The importance of the seaports to country’s economy is high, though after the research at schools the conclusion was drawn that pupils are not aware of these important economical issues. The Lithuanian society has little knowledge about the sea, or they have never been so close to the sea as people in other neighboring countries. The purpose of this work is to analyze the Eastern Baltic seaports according loading capability and the number of travelers, and also try to apply the work in education. The research cleared out that pupils know little about the neighboring country sea ports, also they can not say what is the difference among Klaipeda seaport and other Baltic seaports. Theoretically this work could be divided into two big parts. The issue is analyzed according... [to full text]