A Municipal Information System for Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Includes bibliography

Marine project ideas for the Haitian port of Miragoane: provisional version

Includes bibliography

El intercambio electrónico de información aplicado a la gestión de puertos-la experiencia del Puerto de Barcelona.

Ningún puerto es igual al otro. A pesar de que su fin primordial siempre sea el mismo (servir de interfaz para el cambio modal del transporte en general) nunca encontraremos dos puertos con la misma configuración. En este sentido, podemos clasificar a los puertos según: Sus condicionantes físicos: ubicación (situación geográfica, artificiales, naturales, en estuarios, climas adversos, mareas,...) y tamaño (grandes, pequeños, medianos). Su uso: Puertos comerciales (carga general, graneles sólidos, graneles líquidos, petróleos, de transbordo, mixtos), de pasajeros, deportivo - lúdicos, pesqueros, mixtos, etc Su titularidad: privados, municipales, regionales o estatales. El papel que juega la Autoridad Portuaria en la gestión del puerto: - Global, es decir, la Autoridad Portuaria planifica, desarrolla y opera la totalidad de los servicios. - Impulsor, en el que la autoridad portuaria planifica y desarrolla tanto la infraestructura como la superestructura pero los servicios los ofrecen empresas privadas. - Concesionado, donde la autoridad portuaria deja a cargo de las empresas privadas la superestructura y la prestación de los servicios portuarios.

Port Security Measures: One Year after the Entry into Force of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS Code)

New Page 1This issue of the FALBulletin presents information relating to the implementation in Latin Americanand Caribbean countries of the International Ship and Port Facility SecurityCode (ISPS Code) of the International Maritime Organization (OMI), one yearafter its entry into force on 1 July 2004. Information is included on the charges associated with the securitymeasures, in the world and in Latin America, together with an analysis ofcompliance with the measures in a group of countries from the Southern Cone ofthe region. 

Port-rail integration: challenges and opportunities for Latin America

This issue of FAL Bulletin analyses the role of good modal integration between port facilities and the rail network to ensure port competitiveness.

Informatización de puertos marítimos, plataforma de e-commerce y comunidades logísticas

Corrección: Por error en la presente edición, faltó incluir el siguiente párrafo:"Este proyecto ha contado desde su inicio con la colaboración de la Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona, en el marco de un Acuerdo de Cooperación Tecnológica entre el Puerto de Buenos Aires y la A.P.B, quien ya cuenta con una Plataforma y un grupo de trabajo, Forum Telemático (www.apb.es). Esta experiencia de la A.P.B fue recogida en el Puerto de Buenos Aires, constituyéndose un equipo de trabajo mixto con especialistas de Buenos Aires y Barcelona, para trabajar en forma conjunta con el aporte y el apoyo del Grupo COLOBA, más todo el resto de la comunidad portuaria. Se desarrolló el Plan Maestro para la Plataforma de e-Commerce del Puerto de Buenos Aires. El mismo presenta un enfoque metodológico integrado para la implementación de una plataforma que brinde este tipo de servicios en Buenos Aires. El esfuerzo conjunto y mancomunado de todos los participantes del proyecto permitió la finalización del Plan Maestro en el período previsto, alcanzando un pleno éxito en el logro de los objetivos planteados.

Maritime and port security in South America: the situation in mid-2004

The current issue of the Bulletin is based on a document prepared by the ECLAC Transport Unit, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Division, on maritime and port security in South America: implementation of measures, general status as of mid-2004 (in Spanish only). This is a joint activity of the Technical Coordination Committee of the presidential initiative for Regional Infrastructure Integration in South America (IIRSA) and ECLAC. This document served as an input for a meeting on this subject held by representatives of the authorities of South American countries in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 22 June 2004. In this issue the results are presented of two recent surveys conducted by the users, operators and governmental authorities of the region on the new maritime and port security measures of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). An effort was made, on the one hand, to ascertain the existing level of awareness of the measures and the perceptions of impact, the potential costs and responsibility for the cost of the measures, and on the other hand to ascertain the degree of progress in their implementation, for which the deadline was 1 July 2004.

Port activity in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2007

Port activity in Latin America and the Caribbean increased by nearly 60% between 2000 and 2007 in terms of metric tons of cargo moved and nearly 130% in terms of containers, growing to 1.6 billion metric tons and roughly 32 million TEUs. Based on data provided in the ECLAC Maritime Profile. This issue of the FAL Bulletin presents the main analytical data on port trends in the region.

Ninth inter-American port conference

The ninth Inter-American Port and Harbour Conference of the Organization of American States (OAS) was held in Asuncion, Paraguay, from 23 to 27 September 1996, and was declared open by His Excellency Mr. Juan Carlos Wasmosy Monti, President of the Republic of Paraguay. Representatives from 24 countries of the Americas, four European countries and one Middle Eastern country participated. The Conference was also attended by observers from six regional or international organizations and by special guests from business and academic circles.

Intelligent transport systems in Latin American sea port logistics

This issue of the FAL bulletin analyses the role of intelligent transport systems (ITS) in sea port logistics in Latin America.

Investment and port traffic: an analysis of the situation in Spain

The principal objective of this issue of the FAL Bulletin is to look at investments made in the Spanish port system between 1993 and 2010 in order to determine whether there is a direct link between expansion of port facilities and the outcome of competition for traffic.

Port state control in the Caribbean

This edition of the FAL Bulletin describes and analyses the control of ships at ports - the so-called "Port State Control" - in the Caribbean. It is based on a text supplied by Mr. Curtis A. Roach, Regional Maritime Safety Advisor, CARICOM.

Port modernization: a pyramid of interrelated challenges

This is the name of the course presented by ECLAC's Transport Unit in range of countries in four continents for ministerial and port authorities, transport companies, exporters, importers and trade unions.