Ports, Terminals and Inland Waterways
Port design & Management
The course Port and Fairway design aims at learning about all elements that are involved in the Planning and design or design optimisation of Ports and navigation Fairways. The course participant will learn basic knowledge about Environment, Hydro dynamic, Risk Analyses, Construction and Navigation in constraint waterways as well as Port Organisation.
In the specialisation course the participant will learn how to apply and interpret these parameters in Port and Fairway planning and design, ultimately resulting in the ability to independently design and assess which specialisations are required in designing or improving a Port and fairway. This course is designed as an introduction to all elements involved in Port design.
This course is designed as an introduction to all elements involved in Port design and as such does not delve into all details of a full curriculum but begins to expose the course participant to the most basic of concepts.
Inland Waterways
After this course students have gained an integral and global overview of past, current, future and innovative developments on a wide scale of inland shipping, river waterways, flooding, delta and water management issues. You will get an understanding of the environmental impact, causes of failures and successes and lessons learned of water and inland waterway projects throughout the world. The course participant will also learn how to improve the safety and efficiency of inland water shipping and assess risks in using the river as transport lane.
After completion of this course the participant will have a thorough working knowledge of, and able to improve, develop and implement development projects and policies on river, river delta, inland waterway, inland shipping and water management. This includes among others: working with a multiple stakeholder approach; the development and enhancement of: expertise and international partnerships; river and water structures, new and innovative funding and investment mechanisms.
The course focuses on an introduction in the operations-, project- and strategic aspects and not the engineering part.