CRITERIA ESTABLISHMENT FOR EVALUATION OF COUNTY AND LOCAL PUBLIC PORTS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Abstract

This paper aims to establish criteria appropriate for evaluation of county and local public ports management system in the process of selection of an appropriate management system for different port authorities within coherent national port governance system. Different functional development directions of county and local public ports are defined together with four different development directions on the field correlated with four analysed groups of end users. Four main groups of criteria (economic and financial, functionality, prioritization, successfulness) are developed encompassing 10 different criteria in total. The accent is given to successful fulfilment of county and local port services while in the same time achieving wider direct and indirect economic and social effects. The importance of adequate modelling and selection of optimal model for management of county and local public ports is emphasized together with the necessity to adequately evaluate effects of possible development models and directions.

Key words: port, management, SMEs, criteria, evaluation