BENCHMARKING USING FOR THE MARINE TERMINAL ACTIVITY EVALUATION

Abstract

The evaluation of the marine terminals activity is carried out at various stages of the project implementation: from the stage of pre-design work, development of project documentation and throughout the entire life of the facilities. Any sea terminal is a complex technical system consisting of buildings, structures, technological equipment and engineering networks. Each of the objects, systems and subsystems of the terminal has its own performance criteria. However, for an integral evaluation of the terminal performance, it makes sense to perform analysis to a certain degree of detail, cutting off unnecessary and uninformative indicators. A brief literary review of the world and domestic practice of using benchmarking in the activity of a seaport infrastructure is provided in the paper, the regulatory requirements for the technical and economic indicators of capital construction facilities at the design documentation development stage are specified. The author has proposed the gradation of performance indicators: technical, financial, economic, environmental and social. As an example, the differentiation by the turnover rates of tank reservoir parks for oil terminals of the Russian Federation is showed in the paper, the design values of throughput and the actual cargo turnover of oil terminals of the Russian Federation are compared. A comparison of indicators for some coal terminals - values of the performance of berth line front, performance of the berth and performance of storage areas is also made. The set of performance indicators may differ from each other, depending on the specifics of the handled cargoes, their geographic location, cargo turnover, and the historical development of sea terminals.