CONTENTS

PART 1
oINTRODUCTION
oDEFINITION
oOBJECTIVES
oTYPES
PART 2
oFUNCTIONS
oMEASURES
oADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES
oFACILITIES
PART 3
oCASE STUDIES

PART 4
oCONCLUSION
 INTRODUCTION
DRY PORT CONCEPT
There are many different terms used for an inland terminal facility;

An Inland Clearance Depot is a common-user inland facility, with public authority
status, offering services for handling and temporary storage of any kind of goods
(including container) by any applicable mode of inland surface transport, placed under
customs control to clear goods for home use, warehousing, temporary admission, re-
export, temporary storage for onward transit, and outright export.

An Inland Container Depot is a common user facility with public authority status, and
offering services for handling and temporary storage of import/ export stuffed and
empty containers.

An Intermodal Freight Centre is a concentration of economic independent companies

working in freight transport and supplementing services on a designated area where a
change of transport units between traffic modes can take place
 Hoeje-Taastrup dry port

Port of Lyon Dunkerque dry port.

DEFINITION OF DRY PORTS
Early definition of dry port in united nation text in1982 was –

An inland terminal to which shipping companies issue their own import bill of lading
for import cargoes assuming full responsibility of costs and condition and form which
shipping companies issue their own bill of lading for export cargoes.

A dry port (sometimes inland port) is an inland intermodal terminal directly

connected by road or rail to a seaport and operating as a centre for the
transshipment of sea cargo to inland destinations.

A dry port is an inland intermodal terminal directly connected to a seaport by rail,

where customers can leave and/or collect their standardised units as if directly to the
seaport”

Dry port is a yard used to place containers or conventional bulk cargo, usually
connected to a seaport by rail or road
Dry Port is a port situated in the hinterland servicing an industrial/ commercial
region connected with one or several ports with rail- or road transport and is offering
specialized services between the dry port and the overseas destinations. Normally
the dry port is container and multimodal oriented and has all logistics services and
facilities, which is needed for shipping and forwarding agents in a port.
 OBJECTIVES

Consolidation of maritime Collecting and distribution

goods in intermodal short- of local, regional and
and long distance international transports
transport flows;

TYPES OF
DRY PORTS

MIDRANGE DRY PORT

CLOSE DRY PORT
DISTANT DRY PORT
 CLOSE DRY PORT

The best example for seeing the close dry port is Enfield Dry Port , Sydney, Australia
DISTANT DRY PORT

The best example for seeing the distant dry port is Isaka Dry Port, Tanzania
MIDRANGE DRY PORT

Virginia Inland Port, Virginia, USA - The best example of midrange dry port.
 Important
Ports of India

DELHI

MUNDRA

KANDLA KOLKATA

PIPAVAV HALDIA
JN PORT PARADIP

MUMBAI
VISHAKAPATNAM
MORMUGAO

CHENNAI
NEW MANGALORE

ENNORE
COCHIN
TUTICORIN

Of all container traffic handled at major and intermediate ports in 2005-

06, JN and Mumbai ports alone accounted for over 61%
 Management of container flows to different
ports

Hinterland warehousing Offering special- and

extra services

Consolidation of
Reduction of FUNCTIONS individual container
transport costs flows;

Reduction of pre- and end haulage with road

transport and expansion of rail transport;
Offer an integrated flow of information
Offer co-ordination between different
on railway-, Dry Port-, road- and
operators;
Maritime related data.

To offer centrally MEASURES Organisation of pre- and

placed areas end haulage;

Offer the choice: Reloading or Using advanced or existing technology

shunting;
DRY PORT ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
Reducing total transport expenses;
Connecting cargo handling from the port with other types of cargo at one
common transport centre;
Reducing the use of expensive, centrally located areas in the port;
less congestion on the roads
Integrating port areas with the cities.
Especially in Less Developed Countries (LDC’s) act as beneficiary for an area in
form of creation of jobs in the affected area.
Increases seaport capacity
Increases seaport productivity
Reduces congestion at seaports
Reduces congestion in seaport cities
Reduces risk for road accidents
Reduces road maintenance cost
Lowers environmental impact
 Container handling equipment for 20’ and 40’ containers

Container freight station Reliable and efficient

communication facilities

Complete enclosure, DRY PORTS

fencing and security FACILITIES Temporary storage during
system customs inspection

Offices of clearing and

Custom control and clearance
forwarding agents

Offices of an operator either the site owner or contractor

 CASE STUDIES
ISAKA DRY PORT, AFRICA
Isaka Dry Port is an inland container terminal,
which acquired the dry Port status in 1999.
The conversion of Isaka into a Dry Port means
that all the customs documentation may be
done at Isaka instead of Dar es Salaam Port.
Isaka was a Railway station until the late
1980s when it started to grow into an active
commercial centre due to increased traffic on
the highway to Rwanda. Since 1999 Isaka is
directly handling import and export traffic.

An inland dry port facility

FEATURES

Isaka Railway station including

passenger and goods terminals
Services
ensures assured security and safety of
cargo,
faster and convenient
customs clearance,
preferential wagon allocation,
faster transit time,
 low transport costs,
handles both containerized and general
dry cargo.
Two transit sheds with storage capacity
of 7,000 mt each and can handle 42583 mt
of loose cargo per annum.
Two railway sidings with a capacity for
22 wagons at a time serve the yards
DRY PORT SÃO PAULO

The dry Port Sao Paulo has a convenient entrance and outlet gate for United
States, Europe, Africa and Mercosul markets. The dry port is placed inside the
Metropolitan area of Sao Paulo and covers an area of 160 hectares. The
location makes it the best link for this largest consumer and producer market of
the country, due to the short distances to the airports of Guarulhos and
Viracopos and the port of Santos.
 Cargo handling through modern
equipment and skilled workmanship
Storage
Cargo
consolidation/deconsolidation
Closed and open
warehouses, cold
storage and safe for Computerized control of cargo
valuable cargo and electronic weighing
SERVICES
Yards and gantry cranes for
handling containers
Assistance on customs
procedures and law
Assistance on constructing
national and international freights
Full infrastructure for clients as well as logistics projects
and users

Parking lot of trucks arriving out

of Customs’ working hours
CONCLUSION

A dry port must fit into a complex system where the

necessary supporting infrastructure (roads, railways) is in
place, maintenance is assured, and the regulatory and
institutional systems are properly designed to optimize the
involvement of both the public and the private sector.”