Potential establishment of a dry port as the multimodal logistic center in Croatia

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Following the footsteps of European Union, Croatian national development strategy tends to address environmental effects of the transport sector and encourage development of multimodal transport. Aim of this paper is to present the potential possibilities for Croatia to achieve European and national transport development goals, by providing an overview of container traffic in Croatia, and existing transport development projects. For Croatia to meet the increasing demand in freight transport, and to position itself effectively in European market, as well as to comply European and national sustainable development policies, development of intermodal transport infrastructure is an imperative. Seaport Rijeka is located on exquisite geo-traffic position in the EU TEN-T network, and with increasing demand and lack of possibilities to expand, the dry port establishment has already been proposed as a solution for Seaport Rijeka to modernize and expand its business. As a result, the links between dry port establishment initiative and transport development projects in Croatia, are presented and elaborated. Paper proposes a concept of potential establishment of dry port as a multimodal logistic center in Croatia, in Zagreb area, with the review of its advantages.