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Assessment of the Port Costs on the Zagreb Pier in the Port of Rijeka

Every sea port is an important link of the logistics chain, whose strength and development reflects the competitiveness of the traffic route. The growth of container traffic in the port of Rijeka imposes the necessity for further increase of the transhipment capacity. This has resulted in the construction of the new container terminal in the western part of the port of Rijeka, called Zagreb pier. That will enable the port of Rijeka to accept the latest generation of vessels and will represent additional container handling capacities of the existing Adriatic Gate Container Terminal. The capacity of the berths determines the throughput of the container terminal. The objective of this paper is the implementation of the queuing theory by which it can be determined the number of berths and cranes per berth with minimum costs for the expected container traffic. The optimal solution is obtained applying the model of total costs for the new container terminal in the port of Rijeka. This model can be used for any other container terminal under different specific conditions.

container terminal ; queueing theory ; total cost function ; port costs

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