Evaluation of seaports and terminals possibilities to adapt to changes in market and economic conditions

During the last years the changes in logistics and transport chains were observed. These changes impacted the operation of seaports and terminals that had to adjust their activity to a new market and economic conditions. In favourable economic conditions very high specialization of seaports or terminals activity allows increasing the productivity of logistics chains. However, vast changes in the market environment may lead to a decrease of ports and terminals economic efficiency or even threaten their functioning. Therefore, ports and terminals’ should elaborate on development plans and assess technical possibilities to reorient their activity on handling other cargo types and diversify the services. Importantly, ports and terminals should have tools to evaluate the possibilities to adapt to new market conditions in order to take rational decisions on allocation the of investments in the development of water and land infrastructure and superstructure. In the article the evaluation of possibilities to adapt ports and terminals to a new market and economic conditions is analysed in detail. Multi-criteria forecast method was considered to evaluate the possibilities (potential capacities) of ports and terminals, taking into account possible changes in the market and economic conditions. The case study has been examined to show the implementation of the presented approach.