The ports’ management is facing the challenge of sustainable port development, considering several aspects: economic, technological, logistical, environmental, and community involvement. Although the numerous scientific concepts have been developed for explaining the trends of ports’ involvement into the logistics chains, this research work presents an attempt to draw the attention to the marketing aspect of the port mission, being focused primarily on the customers’ needs, whose preferences are the key factor in selecting specific port in competitive environment. Therefore, the Adriatic, Aegean, and Black Sea ports, sharing the unique marketing features and target market, have been analyzed with the aim to be mutually positioned. The considered ports have similar goals: to achieve the greater degree of competitiveness as well as to acquire the larger number of customers being attracted on the basis of superior port choice criteria. These circumstances have been explored through some distinctive quantitative and qualitative criteria by employing the appropriate, well known and structured quantitative PROMETHEE and AHP method. The obtained results are presented by perception maps, and described on the basis of gained quantitative indicators and the qualitative explanations given by the authors, primarily, in the marketing manner.

The Republic of Croatia, as a Mediterranean country with an indented coast has an archipelago with more than a thousand islands, which is a recognizable market potential of Croatian tourism. Because of the natural values, a particularly valuable and successful part of Croatian tourism and the potential of islands development is the development of nautical tourism. The indicators of the quality of nautical tourism and the nautical tourism quality management system have not been sufficiently studied yet. The basic principle of nautical tourism development management is the principle of sustainable development, which in a compromised and balanced manner is a pre-condition for analyses of the need to preserve the natural environment and the need for economic development. Strategic documents of the Republic of Croatia define "nautical tourism as a special type of tourism which apart from navigation in private organization -cruising by one's own or leased vessel with onboard accommodation and/or sleeping of tourists, includes also cruises in the organization of vessel owners and travel agencies with accommodation and/or sleeping of tourists onboard these vessels, and navigation of tourists onboard vessels for the purpose of other forms of holidays and recreation (fishing, diving)." The paper will implement the multi-criteria decision-making methodology in selecting the criteria and sub-criteria of the nautical tourism development model. The influence of criteria, sub-criteria and alternatives on the function of objectives, i.e. the development function of islands, and the assessment of influence of factors will be determined. The research results are based on the expert assessment and input data on the system (elements, characteristics) of nautical tourism of the Republic of Croatia.

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Abstract. Search and rescue on inland waterways are considered to be insu ciently developed. e methods of search and rescue have been developed only for sea waterways. Despite the possibilities of comparison, the speci c characteristics of inland waterways are the reason why it is seriously considered to develop proposals for search and rescue models on inland waterways. e authors of this paper suggest a search and rescue model for rivers, lakes and channels regarding con guration and the current safety conditions on inland waterways. e model allows a successful quest for reduced search time. In addition, the model predicts the performance of the search.

KEY WORDS Pan-European Corridor V, branches V B and V C , cargo flows, intensity, structure, dynamics, traffic demand