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Effective shipping services are necessary whether
to connect global markets or to provide ferry links between
communities. Ports provide an essential link in the international
transport chain and their efficient operation is critically
important to economic performance. Inland communications must be
balanced to port throughput to ensure cost-effective and reliable
service to final customers. Both on the open seas and on inland
waterways and canals, efficient operation is essential.
Jacobs Consultancy provides a full range of
services relating to port and shipping, from market assessments
through to evaluation and packaging of schemes for international
financing. Ports and shipping are often components of regional and
multi-modal studies; alternatively, planning of the port itself may
provide the focus. In all cases, interfaces with other modes are of
major importance.
Jacobs Consultancy has undertaken port and
shipping studies in Europe, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Africa,
India, China and south-east Asia. Examples of ports with which
Jacobs Consultancy staff have been associated include Southampton,
Le Havre and Rostock in western Europe, ports throughout the eastern
Mediterranean and the Black Sea from Piraeus to Constantza, Jubail,
Dammam and Jebel Ali in the Middle East, Abidjan, Mombasa and Port
Elizabeth in Africa, and Domoinca, St Lucia and Barbados in the
Caribbean.
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