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Author(s)

Rogerio Aversa

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Politécnica (EP/BC)
• Defense date: 2001-12-12

Examining board members

Rui Carlos Botter; Marco Antonio Brinati; Hugo Tsugunobu Yoshida Yoshizaki

• Advisor: Rui Carlos Botter

Abstract

Since the eighties, container shipping has increased substantially and the outlook for the increase demand is even greater. Therefore, the organization of port services as well as the available infrastructure have become the keystone in the port capacity. The Container Hub Feeder Service (CHFS) has been consolidated as a new way to organize container shipping, starting from the premise that in concentrating high volumes to ship it occurs an economy of scale, which means a significant cost reduction. This is possible when the traffic is achieved in a hub port, where the transhipment will be done to another hub port as well. The CHFS has developed in North Europe, Asia, USA East and West Coast, which maintain an intensive trade among them. It is realized that the routes of this trade market go from the East to the West and vice-versa. Thus the motivation to develop this work is to locate a hub port in the East Coast of South America in order to promote a CHFS from North to South direction. Therefore, the present work itends to locate the Hub Port in the East Coast of South America from a set of ports that responds to the flow demand using container shipping among Brazilian, Argentinean and Uruguayan ports throughout world ports, in order to minimize the total cost operation for CHFS, including tax and fee ports and other related costs from owner ship point of view. (AU)