Nautical Tourism Paper
Introduction. Port of klaipėda. The Importance of Klaipeda Port in the Country Economy. Port companies, terminals. Cruise shipping. The largest ships that have been arrived in the Klaipėda port. Port of rijeka. Terminals. Cruise shipping. Container transshipment in klaipėda and rijeka sea ports. Conclusion. References.
The purpose is to compare the ports and the objectives are to describe the port of Klaipėda, the port of Rijeka, to describe terminals and to evaluate containers handling trends.
The methodology of this paper is the analysis of port and shipping management sources, analysis of official websites, statistical analysis, time series, trends, prediction, and comparison.
This port can reload up to 65 million tons of cargo per year and can take up to 337 m long and 50 m width 13.4 m hanging boats.
The information system for cargo and goods transported through the Klaipėda State Seaport operates in the port, KIPIS accelerates cargo movement through Klaipėda port, increases the port's competitive advantage, facilitates the work of agents, freight forwarders. The KIPIS system ensures the exchange of electronic data between port operators in cargo handling procedures.
More than 800 companies are directly involved with the activities of Klaipeda port, and over 58 thousand of them are created. induced jobs and 6.24% the total GDP created in Lithuania. This port works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Most of the supply of raw materials and distribution of products are transported by sea transport and its one of the most important components of the system is being seaports. Seaports are the nodes of the water and land transport systems. Today’s ports are an integral part of a global economy. Besides the ports, the manufacturing industry and other branches of production are developed, which are more convenient to develop due to the specific geographically related sea-related conditions. There are many ports, where ships, offshore oil platforms, ship machinery and equipment, oil refineries, ferrous metals are constructed and repaired and fertilizers are produced.
Klaipėda - is the second most important city in Lithuania - a port city with a great distinction. Klaipeda Seaport is astonishing not only with growing economic data but also a significant contribution to the well-being of the city and of the whole country. In order to become a hub for attraction and a significant economic factor for Klaipėda city and region and for the development of the entire country's economy, it is very important to ensure the regional competitiveness of the port. Due to the political peripatetics, part of the Russian cargo is diverted from the port of Klaipėda and moves through Kaliningrad port of Russia, but the composition of Klaipėda port cargo is most diversified compared to all ports of the Eastern Baltic. The port is very important and convenient in all the world. Export and import are also very important.
