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Assessment of the current situation and the suppositions for the efficient work of the regional port authorities in the region of Istria

Several port authorities have been established for the purpose of management, construction and operation of ports open to public traffic of regional and local significance within the Adriatic regions in Croatia. In legal terms, the Region independently decides on the appropriate, best model of management of ports of regional and local significance. The management of ports plays a special role because the ports the primary benchmarks of development of the maritime economy. In the paper the authors analyse the status of the port authorities from the institutional and economic aspects and explain their technical-technological and organizational-economic structure. The paper also researches and analyses the port authorities' level of development, level of integration, project opportunities and the compliance of all the factors in the structure of the port and its surroundings. The operating result of a regional port authority is the indicator of its success, the role and importance it has for the port, traffic and economic system both at the national level and within the scope of the competitive transport market. The authors analyze the operations of port authorities of the Region of Istria and determine the significance of the administrative capacity and the effects on the improvement and development of port infrastructure. Measures are proposed for the improvement of knowledge and of the effects of the operating process.

ports ; regional port authorities ; administrative capacity ; operating results ; Region of Istria

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