Determinación de la estructura de costos más eficiente para el transporte del carbón térmico desde el Norte de Santander hacia los puertos marítimos de exportación de Colombia

Abstract

Through this work, determination and analysis of a new cost model for the transport of termal coal from northern Santander to export port in Atlantic coast in Colombia. At present the logistics for export thermal coal is via road transport model whose final destination is the port of Maracaibo in Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Due to political and economic situations suffered by the neighboring country's border it has been closed. It was elaborate three models of transportation selecting different significant variables as: distance, speed, time, capacity and cost. Among the selected models are: Model by truck, Model by truck-river and Model by truck-railway. The Model by truck-railway was the most efficient in cost and logistic structure for the transport of thermal coal from northern Santander to port of Santa Marta Colombia.