OT: Need some internet search help.

President_Elect_Shang · #1 January 23rd, 2007, 12:45 PM

Well maybe this isn't off topic since it is for the SFTC. Anyway how many employees work at a large shipping port such as the Port of Singapore? I have given up the ghost finding that info and want to move on to another search. Can one of you with good search knowledge find a number for me? I have tried several ports and several government websites. In fact I think the Chinese secret service is knocking on my door right now. If I don't make it back know that I loved you all! Well maybe everyone but you Fyron.

capnq · #2 January 23rd, 2007, 02:19 PM

According to Wikipedia, in 2000 Singapore had a labor force of 2.2 million.

(The search string that I found this with was "port employment Singapore".)

Santiago · #3 January 23rd, 2007, 02:33 PM

http://www.singstat.gov.sg/keystats/economy.html#labour

About 185K looks like

ps that's total Transport and Storage in the whole country

President_Elect_Shang · #4 January 23rd, 2007, 02:48 PM

Those are the only two numbers I could come up for Singapore. Feel free to us any major port in the world. The problem with those two numbers is that they don't reflect only the employees for the government at the port. Once again feel free to use any port in the world so long as it is a major one; not my local marina at Canyon Lake.

Ludd · #5 January 23rd, 2007, 07:01 PM

I found this. It's from the port of Antwerp 2004 report.

In 2003 the port provided direct employment for 62,276 people. Hope it helps.

web page

And this from Rotterdam web page

capnq · #6 January 25th, 2007, 03:44 AM

According to the CIA World Factbook, in 2006, 11% of Singapore's 2.4 million workers were in "transportation and communications", which comes to 264,000. So there's a third number to work with.

frightlever · #7 January 27th, 2007, 08:38 AM

How many people work at the port?

About half of them.

Randallw · #8 January 27th, 2007, 09:21 AM

Star Trek version.

"How do the inertial dampeners work?"
"Very well, thankyou"

President_Elect_Shang · #9 January 27th, 2007, 12:51 PM

Quote:

frightlever said:
How many people work at the port?

I wasn't sure so I used an arbitrary number scaled with the rest of the facilities. I used the 2005 CSU statistics for the University. I pulled a second set of hard numbers, ran it all through a spreadsheet to balance and plugged them all in. The test game seemed to be working fine but then I took a break to beta test. Anyway I have the numbers in and I am happy with them. I want to thank you all for helping out with this search. This is the most helpful and friendly community I have ever seen on the net! I'm glad I am a part of it. Ya I'm feeling sentimental this morning. Maybe because I just wiped out a bunch of Phong before bed last night!