In my first post I said that I am going to talk about port planning and ports in general. But first, we need to know why planning is so important in the development of a port.
Ports are main entrances to a country of two kinds of ware: goods and passengers. This is, we need ways to reach the port and ways to go from it to the city (or other settlements). But the two types of ware (passengers and goods) can not be located in the same place because they need different cares. Moreover, if we need them to be separated we will need different entries. Here is where port planning is so important, we need to organize the land in order to achieve a basic goal: to separate goods and passengers (and work with them efficiently) and to make them accesible from different directions.
The most part of ports and harbors are placed at a certain distance from cities, but in other cases the port is very close to the midtown (or downtown). There are 4 items that could affect the port’s planning:
- Accessibility: Main ports need to be accesible from different directions, e.g. Valencia’s Port (Spain) has accesses from the North, West and South sides and also has rail access.
Main entrances to Valencia Port. Source: valenciaport.com
- Urban permeability: Interaction with the city (e.g. restaurants, leisure activities)
- Permitted uses: commercial, fishing and marinas.
- Placeholders: for different uses and security issues.
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These are the topics that we will talk about in following posts:
- Post #3: Evolution of commercial (trading) ports
- Post #4: Hinterland and voreland
- Post #5: Passenger terminals
- Post #6: Ro-ro terminals (i)
- Post #7: Ro-ro terminals (ii)
- Post #8: Ro-ro terminals (iii)
- Post #9: Container terminals (i)
- Post #10: Container terminals (ii)
- Post #11: Container terminals (iii)
- Post #12: Dry-bulk terminals
- Post #13: Terminals for liquid bulk
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