Containers and Their Effect in Durres Port (original) (raw)

2013, Romanian Economic and Business Review

Since the introduction of containerization, container throughput in the world has continuously increased. Today more than 90% of the world cargoes are transported by sea, and containerized cargoes are increasing year after year. The above tendency of world container transportation has given a significant impact on Albanian ports as well and especially in the port of Durres. Durres port is the main gateway of Albania, where more than 85% of the seaborne cargoes go through this port. During the recent years, the volume of general cargo that has been handled in this port has been gradually reduced and instead, a continuous and rapid growth of containerized cargoes has been observed. In order to have an effective and productive terminal, a number of factors need to be studied, because the higher the terminal productivity, the higher the difference between the revenues and the costs will be. There are a number of factors to be considered like port congestion, traffic management and safet...

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