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MarEng Plus Teacher’s Manual/Intermediate Level/Unit 2 Welcome to a Modern Port

Unit 2 Welcome to a Modern Port Read & Listen

Exercise 1

Today a major port is a world of its own. Modern port facilities have to meet the demands of highly specialised transport systems by sea, land and air. And so within the boundaries of any large sea port we find an amazing range of services.

A modern port maintains shipping channels, harbour basins, and navigation aids as well as the port infrastructure such as wharves, quays, docks, storage areas and warehouses, cranes for cargo handling and terminals for cargoes and passengers. It provides pilots and pilot vessels, tugs for towage and emergency response vessels in cases of accidents at sea.

Exercise 2

Ship´s Chandlers Shipping Agent Stevedoring Company Ship Brokers Companies for Marine Equipment and Ship´s Repair Shipping Company

procures e.g. food articles and other equipment needed by ships represents ship owners in port, carries out services for ships provides personnel (and equipment) for loading and discharging a company that buys and sells ships provides equipment for repair and maintenance of ships a ship- owning company offering service for shipment of goods overseas

Exercise 3

dry bulk a fertilizer grain logistics coal ore shipment molasses

loose cargo e.g. sand a natural or chemical substance used to make plants grow the small hard seeds of food plants such as wheat and rye maintenance black substance dug from underground burnt as fuel rock or soil from which you can get metal an amount of goods sent from one place to another sweet thick dark liquid used in sweet dishes

MarEng Plus Teacher’s Manual/Intermediate Level/Unit 2 Welcome to a Modern Port

petrol liquid bulk petroleum sodium carbonate general cargo

fuel used in car engines Am. gasoline liquids a mineral oil from which paraffin, benzine etc. are obtained Na2CO3 piece cargo

Exercise 4

1.

Santander lies or is on the north coast of Spain.

2.

It is a popular holiday .

3.

Santander is an old port town; it was by the Romans.

4.

In Santander water, road and railway transport meet; it is an important .

5.

Traffic included or five million tons of goods in 2003.

6.

traffic is when a ship goes on the same route back and forth between two ports.

7.

Passenger ferries and cruise ships berth at a .

8.

Traffic has become more lively; there has been an in traffic.

9.

RORO is short for .

10.

When you put money into something and hope to make a profit we say you .

11.

The sum put up is called an .

12.

RORO traffic stands or for 65% of the general cargo traffic.

13.

The Port authorities have had to set up or specialized equipment for vehicle handling.

Reading Comprehension: Vessel types Exercise 1

barrel bale crate grabber

a round container often for oil, for example a large bundle of goods packed and fastened up a wooden box a clutching device for handling cargo

pallet

a platform with or without sides on which you can load packages or crates a pail something made of leather, paper, cloth or plastic for holding articles or goods a metal box of standard size used for cargo a funnel like a cone upside down through which

bucket bag container hopper

MarEng Plus Teacher’s Manual/Intermediate Level/Unit 2 Welcome to a Modern Port

bin carton conveyor

grain passes into a truck or hold a box in which things (grain, scrap metal etc.) may be stored or put a box made of cardboard a belt or chain for moving large quantities of goods

Exercise 2

GENERAL CARGO

DRY BULK

LIQUID BULK

machinery parts piece goods timber paper rolls electronics

sand scrap metal grain ore soya beans fertilizers coal cereals sodium carbonate

oil chemicals petroleum molasses gas