Hub balear: análisis de una alternativa de 'short sea shipping' dentro del Mediterráneo occidendal

• Autores: Ignacio Galiano
• Directores de la Tesis: Francisco Javier Martínez de Osés (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2014
• Idioma: español
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Carlos A. Pérez Labajos (presid.), Marcella Castells Sanabra (secret.), Abel Camblor Ordiz (voc.)
• Materias:
  • Ciencias tecnológicas
    • Tecnología naval
      • Transportes marítimos
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
• Resumen

  • The main objective of this thesis is to determine the possibility to install in the Port of Palma a redistribution centre of Ro-Ro Cargo in the Occidental Mediterranean, and that needs to analyze different partial objectives, that are important for the main objective. - Determination of the different bilateral commercial fluxes between the different coastal countries. - Localization of the production and reception sources that intervene on the bilateral exchange, or of third countries that use those ports to develop their merchant activities. - Analysis of the nowadays short sea shipping routes for Ro-Ro Ships, evaluating the type of ship and her average occupation. - Analysis of the optimization of the existing routes, with new proposals explained on this thesis. - Describe and evaluate the nowadays and projected facilities in the Port of Palma. - Determine the viability of the project with an evaluation methodology proposed by the author, according to the study scenario and based on the partial objectives explained before. As an initial hypothesis we should evaluate the strategic situation that the Port of Palma has on the analysis context, because it is located between the existing routes. In the light of the analysis of all the parameters referred before, the final objective of the thesis is to evaluate, as an alternative of the Occidental Mediterranean Short Sea Shipping, the establishment of a new Hub Port in Palma. We tried to analyze the possibilities of the Port of Palma to become a HUB future port in the hard market of the Short Sea Shipping Lines. On the present paper we tried to analyze the different factors that could affect the situation of a redistribution centre of cargo, considering as positives: - Geographical situation. - Facility of landfalls. - Availability of berths. - Appropriate port facilities. - Complementary developed services. - Touristic centre on a global level. - Possibility to expand the infrastructures in a mid-term period. - Great occupation, great profitability for the shipping companies. - Development of the Magreb countries. As negative aspects, we could find: - Deficit on the development on the Short Sea Shipping Lines. - Very low activity of the Spanish shipping companies on the Short Sea Shipping Lines. - A HUB Port is not a priority for the Port Authority. - Higher trip cost, because of the duration of the layovers. - Longer distance, growth of the combustible costs. - Increase of the speed to maintain the rotation. - Higher crew costs, because of the increase of the occupation. As a result of our analysis we consider that Palma could have, according to its conditions, a pioneer Hub Port for Ro-Ro cargo on the Occidental Mediterranean, advantage that we should use according to the limited development opportunities that has the Port of Palma.