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Cargo Throughput of Spanish Maritime Ports

The economic goal of the work of maritime or inland ports is to fulfil their financial budget. The individual items of the budget have a direct or an indirect bond to operation activity indicators. One of these indicators is the throughput of the port that can be defined as the capability of transshipment berths of the port to process the volume of cargo in tones in the specific required structure and variants of work for the monitoring period. Spain belongs to the countries of the European Union (EU) where maritime transport plays a relevant role in the transport system of the state in cargo transport. Spanish maritime ports have the second largest share of cargo throughput after the Dutch ports which are the European busiest ports. Forty-six Spanish ports are owned by the state, and may be divided into two groups (according to the coastline where they are situated). The basic goal of the article is to focus on structural analysis of cargo throughput in Spanish Ports including their container terminals and to predict their development with using the least squares method.

maritime transport, maritime ports, cargo throughput, containers

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