Preliminary communication
CONTRIBUTION TO RESEARCH OF PORT CAPACITY PLANNING AT THE PORT OF RIJEKA
Alen Jugović
Vlado Mezak
Svjetlana Hess
Abstract
Seaports are complex systems integrating a number of business processes in which process insufficient and inadequate port capacities represent a problem resulting before all in non-competitive service and insufficient occupancy rate of these capacities. Efforts have been made to solve the problem of inadequate port capacities by updating and adjusting the port capacities to market demands while the problem of insufficient occupancy rate of these capacities remains unrecognized and no required attention has been paid to it within the port system. By applying the queue theory and setting up an appropriate model on the example of the Port of Rijeka, this paper tries to indicate the fact that the port capacities, in this case piers intended for reloading of general cargo, are waiting for incoming ships which are deficient and that it would be more economical to reduce capacities and to redevelop them for, e.g., accommodation of vessels intended for container working – respectively cargo reloading which is growing continuously. There is no need for the redevelopment to take a permanent course, but it should last at least as long as it is possible to engage unengaged capacities in percentage generating profit and no loss. The purpose of this research work is not to solve one specific problem within the port operations but to set up the methodology for individual issues that may appear and to show the solving of a specific case as illustration of the applied queue method in port operations.
Keywords
planning; port system; usability of port capacities; queue theory; port operations
Hrčak ID:
38171
URI
Publication date:
15.6.2008.
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