ALPHABET OF PORT MANAGEMENT

Question 1

Science and art of applying the different processes of planning, organizing directing and
controlling to the basic resources such as men, machine, materials and method in order
to produce products or to provide services for the benefits of mankind

Answer 1

Management

Question 2

More popularly known as ETA or Expected Time of Arrival.

Answer 2

Arrival

Question 3

is usually with the representatives of the shipping lines, arrestee
and stevedoring contractors, the Harbor Master, a member of the Planning Office and the
representative of the operation including the Maintenance and the equipment division.

Answer 3

Berthing Meeting

Question 4

These are the colony of the Receival Programs, all of which have
to be prepared to property service both imports and export.

Answer 4

Delivery Programs

Question 5

Knowing the volume and tonnage of cargoes carried by vessel, provision
can be made for adequate equipment to be allocated so as to ensure the smooth
discharging cargoes and the loading of exports.

Answer 5

Equipment

Question 6

The time of the ______ for working a vessel must be properly timeframed no to
go beyond the time of departure of the vessel. The Estimated Time of Finish computation
must include both loading and unloading of the cargoes.

Answer 6

Finish

Question 7

Implied here is manpower allocation. The number and the compositions will
depend on the volume and tonnage of cargoes be unloaded. Labor productivity rate is
the vital concern.

Answer 7

Gangs

Question 8

Is actually stevedoring work. Gangs are assigned lashing and
unlashing, shoring shifting and even palletizing of cargoes inside the hatches. A smooth
hatch operation enhances a smooth discharging operation. The ship’s productivity rate is
also another vital concern

Answer 8

Hatch Operation

Question 9

Is the port such as physical plants, transit sheds, warehouse, offices
spaces, container yards freight station, ready-line equipment, operational areas, properly
dredged berths, clear and safe approaches and facility for workers such a bathroom and
comfort rooms on the quay must be undertaken if the port is to manage effectively and
efficiently.

Answer 9

Infrastructure

Question 10

This kind or types of cargoes and their classification is necessary in
order to make the necessary provision for their handling transfer, storage and delivery.

Answer 10

Kind of Cargoes

Question 11

A systematic location must be evolved to make the delivery
operations more productive. This will also help the clients to readily trace the where about
of their importations. In this case containers, location of the same is easy because
container operation are readily computerized

Answer 11

Location System

Question 12

Makes unloading and loading operation more productive. In unloading
operation, especially if the shipper/ transtainer system is used, a marshaling yard is a
necessity

Answer 12

Marshalling

Question 13

A port is a _____ of in the International network serving trade and commerce. A
port is a _____ that serves an entry point for materials, whether finished or raw, needed
by a nation and its people, but which are not produced locally and at the same time

Answer 13

Node

Question 14

Overall operation have four major phases: Receiving of Cargoes; Transfer
Cargoes; Storage of Cargoes and Delivery of Cargoes. This is for imports in export, we
have the receiving of cargoes at the gate; the storage of cargoes at the sheds or even at
the leased areas of shipping companies within the port; transfer to the marshaling yard
or the loading area; and then the actual loading in board the vessel.

Answer 14

Operation

Question 15

The Port Manager must see to it that the productivity rate not be
lower than 14 metric tons per gross gang hour in the case of conventional gang cargoes
and less than 22TEU per gross gang hour containerized cargo.

Answer 15

Productivity Rate

Question 16

The Port Manager must make an evaluation of the service being
rendered to the shipping line and the shippers, from time to time in order to find out if
the resources of the port being used in the maximum advantages.

Answer 16

Quality Service

Question 17

Are prepared in advance taking into
consideration the cargoes that are discharge direct to truck, ship side by barge. Over the
quay and those that are for transshipment.

Answer 17

Receival program

Question 18

This is the 3rd major phase of the port operation in so far as imports are sheds,
in the warehouse, in the open-space, in the refrigerated storage areas, in the bed order
coral or in the special cargo section.

Answer 18

Storage

Question 19

This represent the 2nd major; phase of the port operation for importations.
Cargoes are transferred from the quay to the transit and not long after from there to the
warehouse.

Answer 19

Transfer

Question 20

The port manager must ensure that the maximum
utilization of berthing spaces is made. Likewise for container yard occupancy percentages;
also for the servicing and the maintenance of equipment to bring the time down time for
them to the minimum.

Answer 20

Utilization of Port Facilities

Question 21

The port Manager should appraise port users of
PPA’s right to make visits or audits. Upon proper and prior notification, as stipulated in
the Permits to Operate or the Management Contrast and as authorized under P.D 857 of
the PPA Charter.

Answer 21

Visitorial Powers or Prerogatives

Question 22

The provision of a proper and adequate warehousing facility is
a must in port operation. Oftentimes, importers are who cannot afford the put up their own warehouse of for paying storage fees while they make the necessary negotiations
for the sales of their importation.

Answer 22

Warehouse Operation

Question 23

The _________ are heavy rain, storm, floods, earthquake, fire,
strikes, power failure, equipment breakdown, all of which effect the productivity of the
port but which are force majeure and therefore out of the control of the Port manager.

Answer 23

Unknown factors

Question 24

It is important that the port be able to provide a sufficient large
back-up in order to avoid congestions in the port.

Answer 24

Yards Allocation

Question 25

Zones must be provided for offices, operation, for storage, for
equipment, for empty containers for private cars, for brokerage trucks, for marshalling
yards, for canteen service, for the port police. The Zoning System must be done in
coordination with the Traffic Routing System to ensure the smooth movement of people
and vehicles and cargoes within the port

Answer 25

Zoning system