Port terminal, container terminal : new port notions

الملخص EN

"providing all shipping trade operations", this expression can has a hidden meaning such as an investment project that the governments cannot afford its budgetary expenses alone, especially those of the developing word.

This fact led them to involve the private sector inorder to finance and manage this type of project.

However and view the plurality of shipping trade operations, the funding were intended most often to cover only one of these activities, the fact that led to divide the port into several specialists field, known under the name of ''port terminal'', that changed the concept of the " port" so it is becoming a group of port terminals, each of wich is specialized in one of the maritime and port activities: container traffic, grain traffic, .

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This changing in the notion of the port had introduced a strong paradox between the practical side and the legal side, this last one that did not embrace neither the term ''terminal'' nor the expression ''port terminals'', even that this notions are becoming much of discussion in the jurisprudence and the doctrine.

This contributes to enhance the port Encyclopedia especially when it comes to the container terminal since it is the traffic that dominantes the most.