The trade, wealth, and power of nations are fundamentally established by the use of navigation. The globalization of the economy, combined with the increase of international competitiveness, is undoubtedly present, pressing and discarding the competitors that have high internal costs for the transport and movement of raw materials and finished products. In this context, water transportation is a factor that induces planned and comprehensive development, interconnecting regions and providing the safe and economical movement of inputs, products and people.
Brazil has more than 8500 km of coastline, with maritime ports, where almost all of the country's foreign throughput is made.
Since the fifties, CTH has made several port engineering studies, scale models and numerical models, for the main brazilian government and private ports, including the following port engineering studies:
♦ Specification of port engineering field campaigns
♦ Improvement of conceptual and basic ports projects.
♦ Study of port mooring structures: breakwaters, jetties and training walls.
♦ Study of the stability of mound structures.
♦ Study of the mooring line plan for the vessels at the berth.
♦ Manoeuvring simulation
♦ Port dredging improvement
♦ Environmental consequences of port disasters.