POWERFUL

MARITIME TRANSPORTATION

NETWORKS :

FLOWS AND FACILITIES.

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energy resourcesServices,

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Different means of transportation for a global economy :

- 70 % of the world transportation made by ships

Maritime areas :

Container ships (= porte conteneurs).

Tankers (= vraquiers).

Factory-ships (= navires usines) ; e.g. for transforming fish.

Riverways :

Barges (= péniches).

An oil tanker :

A container ship :

A factory ship… facing Greepeace :

Japanese whalers turn water cannon on Greenpeace protesters,

Arctic Ocean, December 16, 2001. From : http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2002/2002-01-16-05.asp

A barge transporting seeds :

A barge near a refinery (from : http://www.uscg.mil/d8/mso/corpus/cb_events_gallery.htm)

PORT

INTERMODAL

FACILITIES

What’s the logic of INTERMODAL FACILITIES in a trading port ?Case study : Long Beach port, in California.

TO BE A REAL TRADING CROSSROADS, A PORT MUST POSSESS :

CRANES, to load (embarquer) / unload (débarquer) goods

Containers Deep channelled waters

Large wharves and lot of space, to stock containers

And it must be connected to other means of transportation ; here, trucks ready to drive on highways.

INTERMODAL PLATFORM

INTERMODAL PLATFORM

WHAT’S THE LOGIC OF INTERMODAL FACILITIES ?

Ports, airports, stations, highways…

To achieve the reduction of costs and the fast supply of the demand, to make global trade possible, those different means have to be connected, in the same places.

A LITTORAL FACADE: THE MEETING PLACE OF GLOBAL TRADE

FLOWS

AXES

LITTORAL

PORT

URBAN CENTER

INTERMODAL FACILITY

COMMANDING / BUSINESS CENTER

PRODUCTION CENTER

GLOBAL FLOWS

REGIONAL FLOWS

HERE IS THE INTERMODAL

PLATFORM

THE

INTERMODAL

ORGANIZATION

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