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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STUDY
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The modern technology in transportation, transshipment and port handling is
developing in such direction that ports become more and more specialized for
specific designations and specific kinds of cargos. The first degree of
specialization begins with unitized cargo from port to port and ends with
automatic monitoring of cargo from the consigner to the consignee with all
activities and changes of traffic branches. In this segment the Croatian ports,
as well as the whole Croatian traffic system, are not at all at an enviable level
and would require urgent and overall modernization in accordance with
available resources, which would rendered them equipped to respond to
possibilities that are generally known and applied in the developed world.
The Port of Ploce should predominately develop for the needs of the
neighboring Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also for broader home and
international hinterland.
GOALS AND TRENDS OF MARITIME TRAFFIC DEVELOPMENT:
• revalorization the traffic value of the Adriatic Sea and proper evaluation
of the exceptional geo-traffic advantages of the Adriatic traffic route,
which would open the Croatian spatial territory to main traffic flows
thus improving the Croatian costal and ferry navigation,
• reorganization and upgrading of the Croatian ports technology base,
providing better links with the world/inland and continent and promote
use of the Croatian ports for realization of different economic activities
thus attracting, as much as possible, traffic flows (goods) from Eastern
Europe (in all Croatian ports, and in particular to Rijeka and Ploce.
Request for new space is relevant for three ports only: Rijeka, Split
and Ploce,
• improvement of following new techniques and technologies in maritime
traffic (application of containers, unitized cargo, and other).
Considering the above, validate and incorporate into the spatial plans of
lower-rank the requirements and conditions relating to space for the requested
extensions and modernization. It is equally important that the planning of ports
at local level is harmonized with the General Development Plans of the costal
region/islands.
This physical planning document has defined that in reconstructions or
constructions of new structures the highest technological, economic and
ecological criteria should be applied, and emphasized that physical planning
of the maritime traffic must be prepared in compliance with regulations of
relevant laws, in particular those regulating ports as part of the maritime
estate.
RIJEKAPROJEKT d.o.o.