Synopsis
Port Management and Operations your essential guide to port management in the twenty-first century. • Provides the reader with a complete understanding of total port activity • Enables managers working in specific areas of ports to see where they fit into the port’s operation and commercial practice as a whole • Offers an analysis of the many types of ports along with the common essential elements that enable them to function, including administration, management, economics and operations
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Synopsis
This text provides an overview and understanding of the total port activity. It should enable managers who work within one specific area within a port to see how their particular responsibilities fit into the total operational and commercial of a complex maritime transport interface. The book explains what a port is, its many changing and developing functions and how it may be owned or operated. It introduces the key concepts and definitions, and provides an analysis of different types of port. It goes on to trace how ports have developed and changed, and the impact that ship technology has had on ports. The author also looks at the port as an administrative and commercial entity and analyzes the commercial, economic and political aspects of the port. A survey of the problems environmental matters have created for port management is also included.
About the Author
Patrick Alderton qualified as an Extra Master, and then became a lecturer of commercial transport at the London Guildhall University in the 1970s. He later moved to the World Maritime University in Sweden as the Professor of Ports and Shipping in the late 1980s.
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