Concept of the Decision-Making Model for Establishment of Dry Port on Th e Sample of Rijeka Seaport

Abstract

Nowadays, seaports face many problems. One of the major problems is the increase in container traffi c, and due to this there are problems such as the lack of space at the seaport terminals, and the congestion on routes serving those terminals, i.e. increase of bottlenecks in land transport systems serving the seaports. For some seaports, the weakest links in their transport chains are exit gates where congested roads and inadequate rail links cause delays and increase transport costs. Strategic solution would be the implementation of railways and/or improved land-based intermodal terminals, i.e. dry ports serving seaports. This paper presents a decisionmaking model on the necessity to establish a dry port for serving seaport in order to increase the capacity or space of the seaport, accelerate the technological process and reduce the rush on the routes. Sažetak Danas se morske luke suočavaju s mnogim problemima. Jedan je od glavnih problema povećanje kontejnerskog prometa, uslijed čega se javljaju problemi poput nedostatka prostora na terminalima luke i zagušenja na rutama koje opslužuju te terminale, tj. povećanja uskih grla u sustavima kopnenog prometa koji opslužuju morske luke. Za neke su morske luke najslabije karike u njihovim transportnim lancima izlazi, gdje zakrčene ceste i neprikladne željezničke veze uzrokuju kašnjenja i povećavaju troškove prijevoza. Strateško rješenje bila bi uspostava željezničkog prometa i/ili poboljšanih kopnenih intermodalnih terminala, tj. suhih luka koje opslužuju morske luke. U ovome radu predstavlja se model odlučivanja o potrebi uspostavljanja suhe luke za opsluživanje morske luke kako bi se povećao kapacitet ili prostor morske luke, ubrzao tehnološki proces i smanjila gužva na rutama. KEY WORDS decision-making model necessity for establishment dry port seaport container traffi c KLJUČNE RIJEČI model odlučivanja potreba uspostavljanja suha luka morska luka kontejnerski promet

Determining Optimal Dry Port Location for Seaport Rijeka Using AHP Decision-Making Methodology

“…By applying the AHP, it is possible to interactively create the hierarchy of the problem that serves as the preparation for decision-making, then compare the criteria and alternate pairs, and finally synthesize all the comparisons and determine the weight coefficients of all the hierarchy elements. The sum of the weight coefficients of the elements at each hierarchy level is equal to 1 and allows the decision maker to rank all hierarchy elements by importance [21,[48][49][50]. Its popularity is based on the decision-making approach that is used to intuitively break problem down into simpler aspects.…”

“…In the past 20 years, continuous growth in container traffic has been recorded at Seaport Rijeka [2,20,21]. Due to increasing demand in container traffic, Seaport Rijeka is searching for solutions to expand.…”

“…After thorough study of the literature related to factors influencing dry port establishment [5,6,38], the DELPHI method [39][40][41][42] was used to determine the set of factors influencing the establishment of a new dry port, and the essential ones were obtained to determine the need for establishing a new dry port. The most important factors are seaport capacity, container traffic/future demand, technological process (time/delays/processing speed), connection with key transport corridors, i.e., the location/ position of the dry port (TEN-T network), impact on the regional development, and possibility of further development of intermodal container traffic [21].…”