Resumen de Northern Adriatic port system: Competition and collaboration among container terminals
Elen Twrdy, Milan Batista, Marina Zanne
European port system consists of different types of ports and some of them are grouped into associations that have specific characteristics. One of such associations is the North Adriatic Ports (NAP) system, which consists of ports in Koper, Rijeka, Trieste, Venice and Ravenna. These ports are geographically located close to each other, but in three different countries, with different transport policies and development plans. In addition, these ports differ in administrative and ownership structure. The interaction between these ports offers us a very interesting research topic, because they have to operate in a relatively closed system with the limited market and the number of customers and therefore the ports are forced to co-operate while at the same time they need to compete among each other to get a better market position. In this article we present a detailed analysis on dynamics of container traffic in NAP system for the past twenty-five years by using portfolio analysis, market share analysis and shift-share analysis. Furthermore, we used a simple Markov chain method to predict behaviour of the NAP system with respect to the identified trends in containers traffic. In last section we provide the analyses of possibilities for further evolution of NAP system. The purpose of this article is to present some specifics of NAP system, as well as several simple analytical methods that can be used to detect internal connections between the ports within this particular port system.
