Appendix to Civil Marine Engineer Jorge C. Palma CV back to main cv content

1. Select of marine Engineering Designs, Dredging and Construction Activities

Development 1: Havana East Power Plant

In this project he has been involved in the design and construction of the cooling channel for this Power Plant with one thousand six hundred meters excavated in hard rock underwater.

The works done were blasting, excavation, and dredging of half million of cubic meters.

Development 2: Havana Port Plan:

Here he has done:

· The Havana Container Terminal

· The Havana Roll On Roll off and Sixth Zone

· The Havana General Cargo Four berth zone

· The Havana Refinery Port 

· The Havana Forty thousand floating dock

· The Havana Dry dock

HAVANA Container Terminal  

Here it was done the design and construction of 460 meters of berths, shelters, pavement, port installations, and dredging. Fifteen millions of cubic meters of waste soils were removed. The main solution of the berth has been done with sheet piles walls Larsen V and precast concrete piles 45 for 45, with 20 meters of length. The draft is eleven and half meters. 

HAVANA Roll ON Roll off and Sixth Zone 

Here it was done the roll on roll off berth. This is the berth hammer. This is the Six Zone. Here he has done the design and construction of a new port zone for general cargo, and the fishery port. Four millions of cubic meters on clays and silts were dredged.  The draft is eleven and half meters.

HAVANA General Cargo Four berth Zone  

It has been done the construction and design of a new port zone. The berths 20, 21, 22 and 23, shelters, storages, pavements, port installations, and six millions of cubic meters dredged.

The Structural Solutions was with sheet piles Larsen V and concrete piles 45 for 45 with 21 meters of length.   Draft: Eleven and half meters.

HAVANA Refinery Port

It has been done the Reconstruction project for one of the existing jetties and the design of a new one. Mooring and berth installations of Larsen V piles, cofferdams and precast concrete beams and caps. The berth capacity supports four vessels, up to 200 meters length.

HAVANA Forty Thousand Tons Floating Dock

Here he has been involved in the design of dredging and installation for this floating dock. The main works were: Dead weights anchoring underwater and chains installations.

HAVANA Dry Dock Repair

It has been done with concrete floating caissons, and constructed three hundred meters of new berths. Done Dredging and land reclamations works.

Development 3: Havana Cristino Naranjo Breakwater

Here he has done the design and construction of half kilometer of breakwater with 25 tons tetra pods.  The depth is six and half meters, and the design wave is the Atlantic Ocean one with seven point four meters high.

Development 4: Havana Marina Hemingway

It is a resort marina installation.  Here it has been done the dredging, land reclamation and walls repair.

Development 5: Mariel Sugar Terminal

Here he has done the design and construction of berthing and mooring structures, with metal sheet piles and cofferdam of the bulk sugar terminal. Draft eleven meters.

Development 6: Mariel Bulk Cement Terminal

Here he has done the design and reconstruction of the cement jetty with precast concrete piles 45 x for 45. The jetty has 220 meters. The draft is eleven point five meters.

Development 7: Cienfuegos Port Plan

Here he has done:

· The Cienfuegos Nuclear Plant Cooling Channel.

· The Cienfuegos Heavy Cargo Berth

· The Cienfuegos Refinery Jetty

CIENFUEGOS Nuclear Plant Cooling Channel

Here it has done the Design and Construction of one thousand six hundred meters of channel with blasting. Two and half million of rocks were excavated; one third of them was blasted under water.  

CIENFUEGOS Heavy Cargo Berth

He has been done the design and construction of a new auxiliary berth for high loads and supplies to the Cienfuegos nuclear Plant. The design solution was done with metal sheet piles and cofferdams.  

CIENFUEGOS Refinery Jetty

He acted in the design of this jetty by a joint venture with Soyusmornii Project – from the Former Soviet Union and also participated during the construction control and planning. The berth structures, has been done with metal driven piles diameter one meter, precast concrete caps, beams and slabs. The joining structure has been done on heavy rocks.

Development 8: Santiago de Cuba Port Plan   

Here he has done:

· The Santiago de Cuba Refinery Jetty

· The Santiago de Cuba General Cargo Berth 

· The Santiago de Cuba Cement Terminal  

SANTIAGO DE CUBA Refinery Jetty    

The design of this jetty is a twin of the Cienfuegos refinery jetty for similar vessels.

The draft is twelve meters. He has done the construction of structures with metal driven piles diameter one meter, precast concrete caps, beams and slabs.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA Cement Terminal     

Here he has done the design and construction of the berthing structures with sheet piles and cofferdam for cement cargo vessels.

This is the operating platform, and here exist additional mooring points.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA General Cargo Berths   

It is a new port zone. Here he has done the design and construction of one thousand six hundred meters of berth. The structural solution was done with metal and concrete sheet piles walls. 

Development 9: Felton Power Plant Channel      

An improvement of the design concept on the technical solutions and constructability for a 4x250 MW Power Plant was done by the consultant. The auxiliary abandoned sheet piles were included – along one kilometer- into the structural design and the solution saved 30 000 M3 of concrete and the time to market was reduced one year.

This project was awarded the premium innovation of the year in the construction field.

Development 10: Kay Coco Causeway        

Here he has done the design and construction of seventeen kilometers of causeway in shallow waters with fifty hydraulic bridges. There is one lifting bridge that allows the vessels navigation trough the causeway.

Development 11: Varadero Beach

Here he has designed and nourished seventeen kilometers of coastal line. Transported and supplied 5 million of cubic meters of sand with a Trailer Suction Hopper Dredge to the shore line.  

Development 12: Matanzas Very Largo Carrier Berths        

This installation has three berthing points for Very Large Cargo Carriers.  He has designed the auxiliary port, and acted as technical counterpart in front of UIE from France.   

Development 13: Mexico Chetumal Port Development

§ A tender assessment to develop a port for oil and general cargo. Quintana Roo Government Consultant. Mexico.

He has done the feasibility study for one billion tender to develop port capacities under the North America Free Trade Agreement, to export oil and customs to South America from the United States and Canada.

Development 14: Camposoto Port and Beaches, Spain  

Here he has done a full coastal engineering field study, laboratory and mathematical modeling. It was analyzed the hydrodynamic of the estuaries, sand transport, sedimentation process, winds, waves and currents.

The task was to define the impact of port dredging on the navigation channel, the sport port and on the beach shore line.

Development 15: Panama Container Terminal, Balboa Port  

• Washington. Senior Consultant, a JV with Louis Berger Group. 2006. Project was awarded, ongoing:

§ A Project Development of 1000 m berth and 60 ha of Territory. Consultant. Project Director and tender presentation leader. The client firm was project awarded by Hutchison LTD. –a world class businesses operator in port services-.

Here he acted as a project director during the tender process with Louis Berger Group. It represents a Development Program with one km of berths, land reclamation, extraction of sunken vessels, main technical solutions and work statements. Project was awarded

The most important- in this project- was the organization and the work statements because all the construction activities should be done without interferences over the present port operations. 

For a multimedia show of selected projects, please, see:

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2. Other relevant information

· Master Course of Coastal Engineering (500 hours), University of Cantabria, Spain. Thesis, Evaluation of Marine Currents Generated by Waves, Tides, and Winds. A Practical Application to Campo Soto beach, Spain, 1996.

Thesis: Evaluation of Marine Currents Generated by Waves, Tides, and Winds. Practical application to the Camposoto beach. Spain 1996.

1. Main Subjects:

Wave Analysis. Hydrodynamic in the Surf Zone. Sediment Transport. Long Waves. Field and Laboratory Experimental Methods in Coastal Engineering. Waves theory. 


Course Seminars and Conferences: 

1.     Sediment Transport, Professor O. S. Madsen. MITT. (USA). 

2.     Lift packs Model from Danish Hydraulics Institute. J. Enriquez (HIDTMA). 

3.     Irregular Wave Models in the Surf Zone. Steve Edgar. Washington State University. 

4.     Spectral models for shoaling and refraction. J.T. Kirby. University of Delaware. 

5.     Extreme Analysis. Dr. Enrique Castillo. University of Cantabria. 

6.     Waves hind casting. Maritime Climatic Program. MOPTMA. 

7.     GENESIS model. Nicholas Krauss University of Texas. USA. 

8.     Long Term Coastal Line Evolution. H. De Vriend. University of Twente. 

9.     Rivers and estuaries' management in Europe. D. Prandl. Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory. 

10.  5th Spanish Coastal Engineering Meeting, Valencia, Spain. 

3. Other Project results

• Información Interactiva Business Development. Spain. 2006-1999:

§ Business Consultant Associated. Strategy and Project Manager. A start-up project to serve IT developments for civil engineering enterprises.

• Designs and Rehabilitation of Industrial Infrastructures and Installations. Spain. GIDAI. 2004-1999. Associated Consultant:

§ Modernization project and repairing of industrial polygons in North Spain. Hoyal. Main project and design solutions.

• Monaco Maritime Development. Visitor Advisor. Monaco 1999.

§ Assessment of labs, field study and solutions of Grenoble Oceanographic Centre for new maritime installations in the Monaco Principality.

• TACIS; European Investment Bank "Technologic Transfer for Russian Port System". Selected Senior Consultant by Antwerp Engineering Port Consulting and Project Director, Tender Leader. Belgium 1998. Project awarded:

§ A project to improve secondary Russian Ports in the Black Sea. Transfer of Technology for new installations, organization and systems for repairs and maintenance of port equipments, and port competitiveness.

4. Expert Groups and Councils

· Gerson Lerhman Council Member for Industrial fields. 2003- Present

· Coastal Law; Cuban Ministers' Council, 1990-1994.

· Council Member of the Cuban Council of Preparedness for Natural Disasters. 1987-1994.

· Beaches National Council. Cuban Science Academy, 1990-1994.

· General Technical Council. Cuban Construction Ministry, 1987-1994.

· Deep Foundation Design. Cuban Construction Ministry, 1990-1992.

· Selected Economic Programs. Cuban Ministers' Council, 1989.

· Castellanos Mine Project. Cuban Heavy Industry Ministry, 1989.

· Holguin Integral Iron Steel Plant. Cuban Construction Ministry, 1983.

· Port -Transport-Inner Trade System. Cuban Ministers' Council, 1980.

5. International Marine Civil Engineering Meetings

· 44th Meeting of the Standing Committee for Economic Mutual Assistance Council. Berlin, 1980.

· Marine Engineering Meetings. Varna, 1981.

· Nuevitas Two Wharves Project. Madrid, Counterpart. 1982.

· Matanzas Auxiliary Fleet Port. Moscow, Counterpart 1984.

· Second World Conference of Coastal and Port Engineering in Developing Countries, Beijing, 1987.

· Rationalization of Felton Power Plant. Prague, Consultant 1988.