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Multimodal transport in the function of the port system containerization development

The port system has a crucial importance for the overall traffic and the cargo flows as a connection point of two or more transport modes, as well as implementation of cargo transshipment from the sea-land transport and vice versa. Consequently, the port has a fundamental role in the development of economies, since the global economy increasingly requires efficient transfers of cargo and other resources from the areas with relatively low efficiency to destinations where these efficiencies are relatively high. With the modern technologies in ports, a better control of ships navigating at port basins and entrances is provided together with more effective control of transshipment operations. Modern ports are supposed to be increasingly involved into physical changes of cargo form, from small packed cargo items to large and/or integrated cargos. Nowadays, most of the ports are actively participating in the activities of collecting, processing and producing new goods resulting in the continuous modernisation, expansion and provision of new port capacities. The port development is greatly influenced by multimodal transport, as a modern form of port system containerization. Apart from that, multimodal transport changed the organisational and marketing structure of the port and its hinterland and it also significantly affected the development of port competition. This paper aims at the importance and role of multimodal transport in the port system modernisation, since the development of multimodal transport is directly reflected on the improvement of mangement and control of terminal operations, as well as the improvement of coordination among participants in the transport chain. Since the port system as a complex entity includes and combines multiple modes of transport and subsystems necessary for its functioning, when considering the impact of multimodal transport on the development of port system containerization, in the consideration of certain problems the method of systematic approach is used. Furthermore, in this paper functional elements of multimodal transport are elaborated for the purpose of port system containerization development. The paper also provides analysis of the most important factors within multimodal transport, directly reflected on the development of containerization in ports and, in broader sense, they affect a higher level of quality of maritime transportation services.

Port system; Multimodal transport; Containerization

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