Abstract
Seaport Rijeka is the largest seaport in Croatia. It specializes in transport of cargo, with the primary activities of loading, unloading, storage and transport of general cargo, timber, bulk cargo, livestock, containers, and other cargo at five specialized terminals. It is focused on increasing the quality of services and the competitiveness of the transport routes in Croatia. Due to its favourable position on the TEN-T network, Seaport Rijeka provides the shortest maritime connection between the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as the overseas countries. In the past 20 years Seaport Rijeka keeps record of continuous growth in container traffic. Due to increasing demand in container traffic, it seeks for the solutions to expand. One of the possible solutions that would satisfy the increasing demand in container traffic is establishing a dry port. Dry port is an inland intermodal terminal which has direct connection to the seaport by road or rail and its main purpose is to provide logistic activities and transport to inland destinations. Dry ports have many advantages, faster transport of cargo from seaports, use of more efficient modes of transport, providing facilities for the storage and consolidation of goods, the maintenance of road or rail freight carriers, customs services, etc. In the case of container transport, dry ports can be used to outsource the logistic activities of transport process, away from congested area of seaports. Due to the fact that Seaport Rijeka is reaching the limits of its capacity, one of possible solutions of its expansion is establishing a dry port. The focus of this paper is to prove that establishing a dry port would speed up the transport process of containers between Seaport Rijeka and its destinations. Due to this hypothesis, four simulations were made. First simulation shows the transport process in the existing set-up of the Seaport Rijeka. Second, third and fourth simulation shows the transport process in the future possible set-up of the Seaport Rijeka with established dry port in Miklavlje, Zagreb or Vinkovci.
Highlights
IntroductionSeaport Rijeka is located on the strategic EU TEN-T Mediterranean Corridor and is connected to the Baltic-Adriatic Corridor. [11] Due to its favourable position, Seaport Rijeka provides the shortest maritime connection between the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as the overseas countries
Seaport Rijeka is located on the strategic EU TEN-T Mediterranean Corridor and is connected to the Baltic-Adriatic Corridor. [11] Due to its favourable position, Seaport Rijeka provides the shortest maritime connection between the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as the overseas countries.The EU and Croatia are strategically and operationally supporting investments in port and railway infrastructure that raise the traffic capacity of this traffic route and eliminate bottlenecks.Figure 1 shows the position of Seaport Rijeka in EU TEN-T and potential strategic transport directions.Seaport Rijeka specializes in transhipment of cargo, with the primary activities of loading, unloading, storage and transport of general cargo, timber, bulk cargo, livestock, tropical and other cargo
Due to the fact that Seaport Rijeka is reaching the limits of its capacity, one of possible solutions of its expansion is establishing a dry port
Summary
Seaport Rijeka is located on the strategic EU TEN-T Mediterranean Corridor and is connected to the Baltic-Adriatic Corridor. [11] Due to its favourable position, Seaport Rijeka provides the shortest maritime connection between the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as the overseas countries. [2, 6, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28] In addition to their role in cargo transhipment, dry ports may contain facilities for the storage and consolidation of goods, the maintenance of road or rail freight carriers and customs services. [13, 15, 25] Simulations were made for all three possible solutions to find the optimal solution and to see if it would speed up the transport process of cargo, containers, and increase the capacity of the Rijeka Seaport and eliminate bottlenecks and congestion at the Seaport Rijeka. As 30 simulations of each model were made, the minimum and maximum time averages within these simulations are shown as well
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