The Effect of Port Gate Location and Gate Procedures on the Port-City Relation

Ports are important hubs that have positive impacts on the regions they serve, but also pose some challenges need to be addressed. Many ports around world aligned their development strategies with concept of green growth; however, and efficient performance does not only depend port management itself; elements negotiated approved by local national governments. One such is road access. We investigated impact gate location procedures port’s examining case Adriatic Koper, Slovenian international cargo port. found significant external costs incurred due a non-optimized situation caused lack coordination cooperation all levels, although Koper one European core ports. Further, delayed digitalization adds degradation city relations.