THE ANALYSIS OF THE CONTAINER TRAFFIC MOVEMENT IN THE PORT OF RIJEKA COMPARED TO THE CONTAINER TRAFFIC IN THE PORT OF KOPER

The subject of this paper is the movement of the container traffic in the Port of Rijeka and consequently, the comparison has been made with the container traffic in the Port of Koper. The container traffic movement data have been analyzed by the analysis of time series, which is one of the quantitative methods of estimating the future container traffic movement, under the assumption that the container traffic will be moving in the same way as it did in the previous period. Container transport has a direct impact on the general prosperity of the Rijeka area and of Croatia as a whole. Therefore, it is important to identify the factors influencing the container traffic in the Port of Rijeka and to calculate the polynomial trend that approximates the movement of the container traffic in the Port of Rijeka. From the proposed model with the processed data over the past twelve years via polynomial trend, it is possible to predict the behaviour of the container traffic in the next eight years.