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General information

Subject type: Mandatory

Coordinator: Jesus Ezequiel Martínez Marín

Trimester: Second term

Credits: 6

Teaching staff: 

Sergi Sauri Marchán

Teaching languages

  • English

Skills

Specific skills

  • Show knowledge of the organization of maritime, land, air and multimodal transport, customs management and international trade in order to manage and / or contract transport

  • Demonstrate knowledge about the structure, organization and management of ports -sport and state-of-the-art- where the traffic of people and goods, nautical leisure, fishing and tourism coexist, emphasizing cruises

  • Identify the basic economic concepts, as well as the microeconomic and macroeconomic functioning of the markets

  • Select and use quantitative instruments for decision making and contrasting economic hypotheses

Description

This subject provides knowledge about the essential aspects of port management and the entire port reality, as a business, in a globalized and changing environment

Learning outcomes

Knowledge of the essential aspects of port management and knowing how to analyze the port reality, as a business, in a globalized and changing environment

Working methodology

Theoretical sessions

  • Master classes: teacher exhibitions supported with multimedia material.
  • Conferences: face-to-face sessions, either in the classroom or during a visit to a company and/or institution, in which one or more specialists present a subject from the syllabus from a professional perspective.  

 

Guided learning

  • Visit: guided tour of some Port Authority and/or some of the companies that develop their activity in the port.

 

Autonomous learning

  • Critical reading of articles. Reading professional and/or scientific articles

Tutorials: face-to-face and non-face-to-face (ESCSET email and intranet).

Contents

Topic 1

Introduction

 

Theme 2 Ports and port infrastructures

  1. Basic components of the infrastructure.
  2. Port terminals (types, layout and processes)

 

Topic 3 Typology of ports

Topic 4 World port network

  1. Main ports
  2. Characterization of maritime traffic
  3. The container industry
  4.  
  5. Information sources

Unit 5 Organisation, design and port planning

  1. Port governance models
  2. Port customers.
  3. Customer acquisition and investment strategies
  4. Strategic plans of the ports

 

Unit 6 Management of the port infrastructure

  1. Main processes
  2. Port privatization
  3. Port concessions

 

Topic 7 Characterization of the port offer

  1. Main stakeholders
  2. Business models of technical-nautical services
  3. Innovation and technology in the port offer

 

Topic 8 Effects and requirements of port globalization

  1. Globalization and the role of ports in the economic environment
  2. The port generations
  3. The example of the container industry

 

Unit 9 Introduction to the Spanish port system

  1. Port governance and policy model
  2. The port market

 

Topic 10 Port policy and current elements of port planning

  • European port policy
  • Planning tools

 

Topic 11 Environment, security and port-city relationship

  1. Main environmental effects and quality controls
  2. Security regulations
  3. Port-city relationship. examples

Learning activities

  • Master classes: teacher exhibitions supported with multimedia material.
  • Conferences: face-to-face sessions, either in the classroom or during a visit to a company and/or institution, in which one or more specialists present a subject from the syllabus from a professional perspective.  
  • You visit Port Facilities.

Evaluation system

The final mark will be the results of the weighting of the following activities and exams: 1) 20% of the work and their oral presentation; 2) 30% intermediate exam; and 3) 50% final exam. In order to be able to make the sum of these three concepts, an exam grade of more than 5 out of 10 will be required.

 

In case of retake, the final mark will be 80% of the mark of the retake exam (if the mark is higher than 5 out of 10) and 20% of the work.

REFERENCES

Basic

CHRISTOPHER MARTIN, "Logistics & Supply Chain Management", fourth Edition. Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-273-73112-2

KONINGS ROB, et al., “The Future of Intermodal Freight Transport Operations, Design and Policy”. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Glensanda House, Montpellier Parade UK. 2008. ISBN 978 1 84542 238 7

ISO/DIS 28000, Specification for security management systems for the supply chain. International Organization for Standardization, 2006.

_ b first 3.0, computer program for the management of the logistics chain. Bytemaster

ScienceDirect: the leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from nearly 2,500 journals and 26,000 books. http://www.sciencedirect.com/

DIRECTIVE 2010/65/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL, of 20 October 2010 on the information formalities required of ships upon arrival or departure from the ports of the Member States and which repeals the 2002 Directive /6/CE