Authors : Ehsan Dorostkar, Shaghayegh Shahbazi and Shahaboddin Afzali Naeini
Abstract: The container freight industry has a significant development in the method of its function from its appearance in large-scale since 1960s. Nowadays, the maximum of goods transportation is done through sea transportation. From another side, using the container has also been increased significantly. Besides developing ports and docking ability for big ships with containers, a considerable mass of goods will be brought to ports. This view has been general and the guideline development of combined terminals implicates a new concept as a “dry port” that one of its explanations is so: a dry port is a combined terminal in hinterland connected to a coastal port. The necessary and enough equipment is considered for encountering with traffic of different methods of transportation such as road, rail and air ones and customers can send their goods to it or receive from it through these various methods. One of the significant economic positions in South of Iran is considering goods warehouse, exchange, imports and exports. Entering to this category and considering experts’ attention require a position close to railway and communication roads away from urban crowd and traffic. Therefore, this essay studies the effect of creating a storage site and goods exchange that has combined exit and entry ways including road, rail and railway and all services of storage, keeping goods and export, even it performs customs services under a roof.
Ehsan Dorostkar, Shaghayegh Shahbazi and Shahaboddin Afzali Naeini, 2016. The Effect of Forming Dry Port in Spatial and Regional Planning System in Yazd Province. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 11: 145-152.