Traffic Forecasting
There are several principals adopted to forecast a container terminal traffic . This has to be done by carefully as today containerization is a growing mode of traffic . Some of the things to be considered as follows :- 1)--- Percentage of any trade which may become containerized must be determined on the specific commercial and economic grounds for each case . 2)--- There are no fixed list of commodities as containerisable goods . But wider range of goods is being shipped in Containers every year . 3)--- Provisions must be made for substantial proportion of the movements of empty boxes . 4)--- The average weight of cargo per TEU must be calculated on experience . This varies from 5 to 18 tons which vary commodity wise . 5)--- The percentage traffic of import and export containers must be forecasted . This again needs study in to the export prospects of the selected port region , import needs , stuffing , destuffing facilities , road access etc . This is importa