Background: The efficiency and competitiveness of port supply chain entities are two critical concerns for maritime transport that must constantly be enhanced. This paper presents an approach called ECOGRAISIM evaluating the performance seaport chain. objective is to achieve effective operational plan multimodal terminals. Methods: proposed incorporates ECOGRAI (Graph with Interconnected Result...

Due to the dramatic increase in the world’s container traffic, the efficient management of operations in seaport container terminals has become a crucial issue. In this work, we focus on the integrated planning of the following problems faced at container terminals: berth allocation, quay crane assignment (number), and quay crane assignment (specific). First, we formulate a new binary integer l...

Port competition is very often analysed and the analysis depends on the criteria that we take into consideration. In the UNCTAD [1] publications, the geographical location, hinterland networks, port tariffs, efficiency of land transport and port information system are selected as the most important criteria. Bichou and Gray [2] concluded that the port competition depends also on institutional a...

Seaports are important infrastructures to support international trade. Therefore, it is vital that port efficiency and productivity continuously evaluated improved. In this context, the objective of article evaluate both technical change in six most Tunisian commercial seaports, Bizerte, Rades, Sousse, Sfax, Gabes, Zarzis, over a period twelve years from 2005 2016. To achieve objective, data en...

Abstract Tropical cyclones are among the most detrimental hazards to environment, societies, and economies, each year affecting millions of people resulting in substantial casualties material destructions coastal communities. In this context, maritime cultural heritage, encompassing evidence for engagement with sea, both on land under water, is particularly vulnerable. Despite significant numbe...

Unloading arms (ULAs) among seaport infrastructures are susceptible to deterioration posed by the effects of harsh marine environmental conditions. During infrastructure’s service life, structural integrity may increase risk failure infrastructure, and should be taken into account during reliability assessment. In this study, a simple non-destructive test (NDT) was employed examine ULAs which w...