Abstract

The paper deals with a description of potential options of the Adriatic Sea ports. It characterizes the importance of international trade in ports on the Adriatic Seanorthern coast, particularly with a focus on the port of Rijeka. This paper also outlines statements that the position of this port would be strengthened by itsinterconnectingwith the Rail Freight Corridor 5 which now ends at the port of Koper. As a recommendation in the context of intermodal transport management, the paper presents especially the proposal to utilize services of the company RCO CSKD Intrans, s.r.o. which operatescombined transporttrains to several terminals and ports.

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  • Dry goods turnover in the port of Luka Rijeka d.d. was 2,183,980 tons of cargo, which is a decrease of 24% [9,10,21]

  • During 2016, Hungarian company Dunaferr did notperforman import of iron ore from overseas destinations, which reflected on trafficof Luka Rijeka d.d

  • The Baltic-Adriatic Rail Freight Corridor goes through six EU countries: Poland, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Austria, Slovenia and Italy. It consists of 4,825 km of railway lines connecting the most important Baltic and Adriatic ports with the major inland terminals and economic centres of individual countries

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Perspective potential Adriatic Sea ports Port of Rijeka Intermodal transport Rail Freight Corridor 5 The first international conference on logistics development in Central and Eastern Europe in Villach, Austria (November 14, 2012) gave rise to an important role of the NAPA Association for maritime transport in the Far East. Total turnover for dry cargo in the port of Rijeka (see Table 2) in 2016, which includes Luke Rijeka d.d. and the associated company Adriatic Gate Container Terminal, amounted to 3,833,988 tons.

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