Nascimento, Ademar N.; Mendes, Andre B.
Resumo:
This article evaluates Bahia's current port infrastructure and its prospects, highlighting its significant cargo movement with evidence of a necessary expansion of capacity, given its high utilization rate. This port site, made up of ten terminals and ports, is predominantly in the Bay of All Saints, a natural port, and is one of the most important waterway support clusters in Brazil. It reveals the advantages of its waterways and the limitations of road and rail modes aimed at serving the supply chain of these facilities. Contributing to the analysis of capacity expansion options, it presents a mathematical model of queuing theory with the aim of evaluating the current state of the queue of ships at its only container terminal (TECON), using the QSB+ software, as
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well as the recommendation from the Bahia Port Users Association – USUPORT, which proposes the construction of a new terminal, expanding its current installed capacity by almost five times. The results of this modeling also reveal the limitations of this proposal, both from the point of view of the impact generated on the current Port of Salvador and its surroundings, as well as the significant increase in gaseous emissions (NOx) to be generated.
