POWERFUL

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POWERFUL MARITIME TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS
FLOWS AND FACILITIES.
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Ores and energy resources
Services, information
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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).
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An oil tanker
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A container ship
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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/jan2002/20
02-01-16-05.asp
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A barge transporting seeds
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A barge near a refinery (from
http//www.uscg.mil/d8/mso/corpus/cb_events_galler
y.htm)
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PORT INTERMODAL FACILITIES
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Whats the logic of INTERMODAL FACILITIES in a
trading port ? Case study Long Beach port, in
California.
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TO BE A REAL TRADING CROSSROADS, A PORT MUST
POSSESS
CRANES, to load (embarquer) / unload (débarquer)
goods
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.
Containers
Deep channelled waters
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INTERMODAL PLATFORM
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INTERMODAL PLATFORM
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Quickness Profitability Lower costs
WHATS 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.
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A LITTORAL FACADE THE MEETING PLACE OF GLOBAL
TRADE
FLOWS AXES LITTORAL PORT URBAN CENTER INTERMODAL
FACILITY COMMANDING / BUSINESS CENTER PRODUCTION
CENTER
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HERE IS THE INTERMODAL PLATFORM
REGIONAL FLOWS
GLOBAL FLOWS
MARITIME AREAS
SEAFRONT
HINTERLAND
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THE INTERMODAL ORGANIZATION OF
ROISSY- CHARLES-DE- GAULLE