Handbook of Terminal Planning (Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series)

Seaport Container Terminals (SCT) operate as central nodes in worldwide hub-and-spoke networks, and link ocean-going vessels with smaller feeder vessels, as well as with inbound and outbound hinterland transportation systems using road, rail, or inland waterways. The volume of transcontinental container flows has gained enormously over the last five decades frequently leading to double-digit annual growth rates for the SCT.

The 2nd edition of the Handbook of Terminal Planning also deals with problems being induced by questions of terminal development on a long-term basis (strategic level). Facing present and upcoming challenges for SCT operation―such as more and more mega vessels, extremely high hinterland peaks, higher environmental standards, less public acceptance and the stronger competition between terminals serving the same hinterland―the focus of the book is on successful approaches and solutions primarily addressing the planning of terminal structures. Nevertheless, operational aspects are considered, as well as how they effectively contribute to problem solving on the strategic level.

Jürgen W. Böse is Professor of Logistics at Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Suderberg, Germany. Before that, he was Chief Engineer and Deputy Head of the Institute of Maritime Logistics, Hamburg University of Technology, and prior to that he was a Senior Consultant at HPC Hamburg Port Consulting GmbH. Prof. Dr. Böse has numerous publications on issues of maritime logistics and strategic terminal planning and made many presentations in this field at international conferences and workshops for practitioners and scientists.