Notwithstanding the fact that maritime shipping is the most energy efficient mode of transportation for large quantities of freight, there are continues efforts to improve its performance. These efforts have become even more intensive since the beginning of global economic crisis.Slow steaming is one of the attempts to improve both environmental and economic performance of maritime shipping.The paper gives an overview of existing studies on slow steaming and lists other available and already applicable solutions. KEY WORDS:~Slow steaming ~Operating costs ~Environmental efficiency ~Maritime transport efficiency

The cruise industry has been constantly growing since the 1970s and is considered the fastest growing travel vacation segment ever. Currently, Mediterranean is the second most visited region, just behind the Caribbean. One of the Mediterranean cruise markets is the Adriatic Sea, which is becoming an increasingly interesting destination, with Venice and Dubrovnik being the most popular spots. While a port of call destination mainly needs to offer certain attractions to be added to the cruise line itineraries, homeports must provide much more in particular in regards to infrastructure and passengers’ services offered. Currently, the port of Venice and Bari act as main home ports in the Adriatic, while the port of Trieste is growing in importance although at the moment it does not represent a considerable share in terms of number of exchanged cruise passengers. In this paper, the author will determine the advantages that these ports offer in terms of home port adequacy and examine the homeport potential of two Adriatic ports, namely the port of Koper and the port of Split. For this purpose, the list of influential factors will be created based on existing studies but shaped to meet the specific micro conditions and requirements. These factors will be examined.

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In this article automatization of road transport is investigated. In the first chapter relevant international trends were identified. In this paper the research hypothesis is that in the case of automatized road vehicles there is a significant likelihood of endangering human life. Secondly, the history of road safety is shortly described, especially focusing on vehicle design and sweep of system’s theory. In the third chapter evolution of drivers’ assistance systems were elaborated, emphasizing especially autonomous vehicles. Finally, in conclusion the authors warn that new technological solutions could pose new threats.

Nowadays, cargo bikes play a vital role in the last-mile delivery process. Parcel distribution by cargo bikes becomes a more accessible and ecologically friendly solution. This paper addresses the investment decision on the cargo bike delivery concept selection problem. We investigated a better solution in terms of whether the company needs to perform the delivery by investing in its fleet of cargo bikes or renting cargo bikes from a third party. The third solution is to combine those two alternatives. This case considers four criteria: cargo bike procurement cost, cargo bike maintenance cost, return on investment, and financial profitability. To solve this problem, we applied the extended alternative ranking order method accounting two-step normalization (AROMAN) method. The results compared with the MARCOS and ARAS methods confirmed that delivery concept 2 (i.e. renting cargo bikes from third-party providers) represented the best solution for the e-commerce company.