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This paper considers a problem of planning short term operations in a bulk terminal faced by port management when making tactical decisions. Ship loading and discharging, cargo stocking, the maintenance and service of facility equipment are regular operations of a bulk terminal which is a subsystem of a sea port the conduct of which is subject to difficult‐to‐predict or unforeseen influences. The problem that port management encounters in day to day operations looks into making the best possible plan with the scheduled duration of operations/states and transition instants, considering various internal and external factors influencing terminal performance. A state and transition model is used for deriving effective solutions to obtaining the state order and state transition time of a bulk terminal with an objective of minimizing operational costs. The behaviour of the terminal is tested applying the stochastic and deterministic method.

Preliminary notesIn order to determine seaports value on a particular geographic area, the research of ports is mainly focused on the performance measurement in accordance with the volume of traffic and productivity on a global scale. As links in the transport and logistics chain, ports are continuously adapting to the demands of customers in international trade to achieve an adequate level of competitiveness. It is necessary and indispensable for the ports of Trieste, Koper and Rijeka to cooperate and join their efforts regarding joint competition with the north-west European and the Black Sea ports. The major objective is to determine which one among the three observed North Adriatic ports, is the most competitive transit port for the selected points of destination in the hinterland, taking into consideration multiple types of cargo. In order to achieve the set objective, in this paper the collective competitiveness index is proposed. Keywords: competitiveness; competitiveness index; North Adriatic ports; transportation route Model određivanja konkurentnosti luka i prometnih pravacaPrethodno priopćenje Istraživanja luka radi utvrđivanja njihove važnosti na pojedinom geografskom području uglavnom su usmjerena na mjerenje performansi u skladu s veličinom prometa i produktivnosti u svjetskim razmjerima. Kao karike u prometnom i logističkom lancu, luke se kontinuirano prilagođavaju zahtjevima korisnika u međunarodnoj robnoj razmjeni radi dostizanja adekvatnog stupnja konkurentnosti. Suradnja luka Trst, Kopar i Rijeka potreba je i nužnost kako bi te luke udruženim snagama zajednički mogle konkurirati sjeverozapadnim europskim i crnomorskim

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