Koper seems  the most effective concerning to generating revenue per tone of freight traffic, while Ploče are on second place. However, Koper and Ploce and also achieving  high operating costs per tone of freight traffic related to Rijeka. The cause for this may be in ancillary services that generate additional costs, but also help to revenue pass breakeven point, at least in the case of the Port of Koper.

Structure of freight port can also can have a significant impact on the observed indicators, since some types of cargo require investment of less resources, but lower margins can be achieved with them.

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However, the last chart reveals that the Koper port is much more efficient regard to using of workers, since it is able to transfer nearly 18 thousand tones per employee per year, compared to 6 thousand in Rijeka and 3.5 thousand in Ploce .