Port Master Plan: Strategic Development and Capacity

Module 5: Master Plan

Master Plan: Port potential and infrastructure

Registers the port's potential development for 20 years or more, focusing on infrastructure, as a result of evaluating different alternatives and being coherent with the previous strategic port analysis.

Basic elements

• Traffic prospects
• Current port capacity and evolution
• Different infrastructure evaluations and access to satisfy demand

Traffic

Traffic has 2 goals:

• Port development planning
• Income budget, very important for the financial evaluation of the plan

You must have at hand the port tariff structure.

Classification

Classification: Nature, Presentation, Objective/Destination.

Disaggregation

Disaggregation:

• Sectors - Products: Liquid and dry bulk
• General: Containerized; Non-Containerized; Loading; Discharge; Cabotage
• International Land / Maritime: Hinterland; Transshipment

Main methodologies for traffic provisions

Statistical data, interviews and polls, macroeconomic analysis, industry reports.

Offer capacity

Usually capacity analysis of the port offer is performed by quantifying all the terminals and port facilities that determine a port. Then you estimate:

• Docking line
• Area capacity
• Reception capacity / land delivery

The smallest of the above capacities is the specific capacity of the port.

Strategic Port Planning

Steps for the physical planning

Steps that allow a design to be constructed:

• New port geometry
• Project management
• Budget
• Resources assignment

Plan, manage, coordinate, organize, control

Today's manager

• Anticipatory: needed in turbulent times
• Strategic: needed in all types of markets
• Creative: in moments of significant changes
• Entrepreneur
• Leader

At the group level there must be a winning and flexible culture.

Port planning should provide answers to

• Physical factors: territory (port city) and environment
• Economic factors
• Social and institutional factors

Physical

• Integral planning of the territory
• Port-city relation scope
• Sustainable development

Economic component

Need to plan flexible solutions that can adapt to technological development. Need to incorporate port community participation and the economic agents in progress.

Institutional and social component

Need to articulate competences between the different entities. Community participation should be included.

Port planning levels

Level: Strategic, Operational.

Tools

• Strategic framework (AAPP)
• Strategic plan
• Master Plan
• Port public space plan
• Urban special
• Business plan
• Investment plan
• Budget

By looking strategically you check into aspects:

• Exogenous: seen in the external environment: technical and socioeconomics
• Endogenous: experienced by the port itself, due to its evolution, induction, inner nature or organizational character

Strategic plan

5 stages:

• Strategic scenario definition
• Competition frame
• Vision
• Strategic lines
• Action plan