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INTERREG IIIB CADSES
Neighbourhood Programme 4th Call

WORKSHOP Novi Sad

New liner concepts and new concepts for value added
services in the intermodal market
New fortification concepts of the port of Rijeka hinterland

07.11.2007

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Agenda

1. Overview of recent issues in the Republic of Croatia

2. Geographical position, infrastructural conditions and logistic nodes
3. Rijeka Port
4. New concepts for fortification of the port of Rijeka hinterland
5. Conclusions
6. Contribution to regional development aims

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Republic of Croatia

• External debt: 30 billion $ or app 83% of GDP,

• Internal state debt: 55 billion of Kunas,
• Number of unemployed: 308.000 (rate of 22%),
• Export-import ratio: app 47%,
• GDP per capita´: app 8.500 $,
• GDP growth per year: app 4,5%,
• Industrial manufacturing growth of 5,1%
• Work productivity in industry: 3,6%

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 1. Overview of the recent issues in the
interim Republic of Croatia

Republic Croatia has an excellent geo-traffic and geo-strategic position

1. Sea depth near operative coast is up to 30 m.

2. Economically developed countries in the primary gravitational zone which traffic

demand is estimated at app 6 Mil TEU – 37 Mil t/y up to 2025

3. International public transportation represents a key input for development of

Croatian traffic and economic system

4. Croatia develops new intermodal nodes in port hinterlands where it ensures

conditions for construction of new factories for industrial production of goods, new
rail stations and international navigable channels.

5. By providing different VAS to goods in the international public traffic, Croatia

expects GDP growth > 4.5% directly from traffic industry.

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Jadransko-ionski
koridor

P a n e u r o p e a n c o r r id o r s

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VARAZDIN Intermodal nodes in Croatia

!
VELIKA GORICA
OSIJEK
KARLOVAC
RIJEKA
! ! !
VUKOVAR

PULA

Intermodal terminal
!
ZADAR Current industrial sources
KNIN
Other sources
SIBENIK SINJ

SPLIT ! Future potentials

MAKARSKA
Problems
! (Infrastructure,
capacities, etc.)

DUBROVNIK

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Basic functions of Croatian intermodal nodes

Almost all intermodal logistic centres in Croatia have a status of:

• (1) Public international traffic nodes and
• (2) Free zones
Own four basic functions:
• Traffic
• Industrial
• Commercial and
• Distributive
• Strategically they connect Western Europe (the EU) – with Near and
Far East as the biggest world markets

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Graph 1: Freight traffic in sea ports in 2000 – 2005

18.000
Rijeka
16.000 Ploče
Šibenik
14.000
Zadar
TERETNI PROMET (000 t)

12.000 UKUPNO

10.000

8.000

6.000

4.000

2.000

0
2000. 2001. 2002. 2003. 2004. 2005.

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Table 1: Basic spatial features of the coastal capacities in Rijeka port

TOTAL SURFACE 2.000.000 m2

TOTAL SURFACE OF THE OPERATIVE 7.183 m

COASTS

SEA DEPTH NEAR THE COAST 5.5 – 30.0 m

NUMBER OF OPERATIVE BERTHS 39

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Map of Rijeka port and connections to Central European hinterland

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Distances between Rijeka port and Hamburg and

specific ports and traffic nodes

Maritime distances (Nautical

Rail distances (km)
miles)

Ports Rijeka Hamburg Traffic nodes Rijeka Hamburg

Port Said 1.254 3.551 Budapest 589 1.364

Bombay 4.315 6.620 Bratislava 544 1.022

Shangai 8.555 10.855 Vienna 572 1.124

New York 4.785 3.535 Linz 578 911

Lagos 4.765 4.575 Prague 839 688

B. Aires 6.955 6.665 München 578 780

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PORT OF RIJEKA ADVANTAGES
TRANSIT TIME FROM FAR EAST TO CENTRAL EUROPE

Hamburg (Eurogate) :
21 days + 1 day = 22 days

Rotterdam :
19 days + 1 day = 20 days

Rijeka (AG) - Feedership:

15 days + 1 days = 16 days

Gioia Tauro (MCT):

12 days + 2 days = 14 days

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Basic features of the port sub-structure and the capital equipment

WAREHOUSE CAPACITY 362.000 m2 + 725.000 m2

SILOS CAPACITY 57.000 m3

CONTAINER BRIDGES 4 pieces

COASTAL CRANES 42 pieces

SHIPPING RE-LOADERS (SILO) 2 pieces

SHIPPING RE-LOADERS (BAKAR) 3 pieces

OIL TERMINAL (OMIŠALJ) 2 berths (max. 20.000 m3/h)

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Capacities of Rijeka port according to the specialized terminals

TERMINAL Capacity - tons

Container and RO- RO terminal 1.000.000

Terminal for groans and coal (silos) 800.000

Terminal for iron-ore and coal (Bakar) 3.000.000

Terminal for the artificial fertilizers 100.000

Terminal for fruit (ice-box) 50.000

Terminal for cattle (Bršica) 100.000

Terminal for the bulk cargo (Sušak) 50.000

Plant for the conventional cargo (Rijeka, Sušak) 3.000.000

Hinterland warehouses (Škrljevo) 500.000

Terminal for woods 400.000

TOTAL 9.000.000

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hinterland of port of Rijeka

Development of the largest intermodal hinterland hub in Europe

• Total surface 2.500.000 m2, (500.000 m2 more then Rijeka port surface)
• Distance to Rijeka port ca. 20km
• Near ports of KOPER and TRIESTE
• Own spatial documentation and energy resources MIKLAVLJE
• Area is declared as the public good intermodal logistic center and free zone

Features MLC
- INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION
- CUSTOM, INSPECTION, SERVICES
- FORWARDERS
- POST, BANK, STORES, MOTEL, ETC.
- OPEN AND CLOSED WAREHOUSES RUPA-MATULJI
- INDUSTRIAL-RAIL TRACKS (RIJEKA West)
- REMOUNT CENTRE FOR HEAVY VEHICLES

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Logistic Structure & Function of Miklavlje

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Development plan for the rail infrastructure

• Construction of the new rail has started

• It should be finished by 2013
• The present status of rail is inappropriate
(built in 1873)

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Croatian inland navigable routes and rail connection to Rijeka port

•This is a new navigable channel (60 km)

•The transport distance Rijeka and Vukovar
– Vienna will be reduced by 411 km
•The construction is in progress!

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New liner services for the Port of Rijeka

1. Development of new feeder lines from new Parent terminal “Zagreb dock” to all
Adriatic ports, partially Mediterranean and Black Sea ports through “Short sea
shipping” company that operates in Rijeka port.

2. Development of container trains Rijeka – Budapest – Prague, Rijeka – Zagreb –

Belgrade, Rijeka – Ljubljana – Vienna respectively Munich.

3. Construction of “Blue rail” Rijeka – Raša – Italy (Venice) and new RO-RO and
HUCKEPACK terminals on the area of port basin Raša-Bršica in Istria.

4. New railway line for transportation of alive cattle from countries of North, East,
partially West and South Europe to terminals for alive animals in port basin
Raša-Bršica that is equipped for accepting and transporting all sorts of cattle.

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New Value Added Services for the Port of Rijeka

- Agreed laboratory control of quality and health condition of goods in traffic,

- Palletization, packing and pre-packing of goods, then loading and unloading of
containers,
- Repair, anti-corrosion protection and leasing of containers,
- Exposition of goods and organisation of good exchange in the international public
traffic,
- Industrial production of final products and half-products made of raw materials
and components transported by containers,
- Remount of heavy vehicles, ships and all sorts of conventional and special
wagons,
- Banking services for credentials of the international traffic goods

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1.Republic Croatia is confronted with numerous traffic and economic difficulties.

2.For solving economic and transitional problems Croatia should use FDI (Foreign Direct
Investments).

3.For attracting the FDI Croatia uses development of the modern intermodal nodes where it
ensures conditions for providing the numerous services (logistics) of VAS for the
international public traffic goods since it owns enormous comparative advantages for
attracting the new international traffic on its strategic traffic routes.

4.Latest researches indicate that container traffic demand on the North Adriatic area is
estimated at app 6 Mil t/y up to 2025 respectively it exceeds 37 Mil t of cargo up to 2025.

5.Croatia constructs big parent container terminal in Rijeka port, new two-track railway
Rijeka-Hungary, new navigable channel Vukovar-Šamac, new intermodal nodes near main
traffic routes and international corridors – more than 70% of new arriving traffic demand
are prognosed at Croatian territory.

6.Liner sea and rail routes are being introduced between sea ports and their gravitational
fore-land and hinterland.

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development aims

Which strategic goals the Republic of Croatia can and should achieve
through the development of intermodal system?
1. Traffic growth of bulk cargo for 10 – 15 m tons yearly in the next mid-term
developing period - up to 2015

2. More then 5,5 billion Euros for new foreign currency income per year,

3. More then 150.000 new work places,

4. Decrease of import and increase of export for more then 35% in comparison to
the existing situation,

5. GDP increase for 3,5 – 5% in comparison to the present situation,

6. Income growth for state budget and budgets of local self-regulation units on
main traffic routes for more then 1,5 million Euros yearly,

7. GDP growth for more then 12.000 EUR per capita',

8. Decrease of foreign assignment, return of the accepted foreign debt rates etc.

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WORKSHOP Novi Sad

Thank you for your attention

Presenter and Contact:

Prof. Ivan Miloš, Ph.D.
Prof. Nenad Dujmović, Ph.D.
Marijana Jakopič, Graduate in Economics

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