Administrative Barriers - Influence on Port Management Operations

This paper refers to the impact of the port management operations on the goods transshipped onthe inland waterways. I proposed to analyze the administrative barriers and their impact on the level of goodstranshiped. During the time more and more port operators state that the import/export/transit process it ishampered by a number of factors. External good practices, that might be beneficial for inland waterway in theDanube Region have been identified and described. The identified good practices can serve as examples to beused for the optimization of processes at the Danube inland waterway. The factors that influence themanagement of import- export operations in inland waterways and will be analyzed in this paper are: borderPolice, tax and customs; navigation/traffic control authorities; port authorities/administrations; waterway c other relevant authorities imposing barriers.