ANALYSIS OF MARITIME CONTAINER TRAFFIC IN THE PORTS OF THE BLACK SEA BASIN

Authors

  • George - Cosmin PARTENE Politehnica University, Bucharest, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, Business Engineering and Management
  • Dragoș SIMION Politehnica University, Bucharest, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, Business Engineering and Management
  • Sorin IONESCU Politehnica University, Bucharest, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, Business Engineering and Management
  • Florin NICOLAE "Mircea cel Bătrân" Naval Academy, Constanta, Department of Naval and Port Engineering and Management
  • Alexandru COTORCEA "Mircea cel Bătrân" Naval Academy, Constanta, Department of Naval and Port Engineering and Management

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56177/11icmie2023.20

Keywords:

Black Sea, container terminal, multimodal transport, port, maritime industry

Abstract

Almost 70 years since the first standardized containers were handled and this mode of transport began to take shape worldwide, container shipping is on an upward slope in terms of its role in international maritime trade. Also, the demand for the development of this means of transport has led to the need to design specialized ships with increasingly larger capacities, in 2022 the threshold of 24,000 TEUs was exceeded (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit –TEU is foremost used to describe a twenty-foot shipping container). Hence, the implementation of changes in the maritime field highlighting only three issues of this kind: the vision for the development of multimodal transport, the configuration of terminals specialized in handling containers (SCT – Specialized Container Terminal), the expansion of the limits regarding the width of some key locks for trade between the Pacific and Atlantic ports and not only.

The paper analyzes the aspects regarding the development of maritime container transport in close connection with the situation regarding container traffic in the ports of the Black Sea basin. The changes that occurred in each Black Sea container handling port during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as those caused by the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine (transport routes, quantities, current and future needs), are analyzed and presented.

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2023-12-19

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PARTENE, G. .-. C. ., SIMION, D., IONESCU, S., NICOLAE, F. ., & COTORCEA, A. . (2023). ANALYSIS OF MARITIME CONTAINER TRAFFIC IN THE PORTS OF THE BLACK SEA BASIN . International Conference of Management and Industrial Engineering, 11, 139–146. https://doi.org/10.56177/11icmie2023.20

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Vol. 11 (2023): Towards Increased Business Resilience: Facing Digital Opportunities and Challenges

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Technology and Competitiveness

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