Quality

Ensuring customer satisfaction is the number one priority of the company's business policy. For this reason the acquisition of the quality certificate represents an additional challenge to constantly improve our services. The quality certificate obtained by Luka Koper, d.d. proves that the company has an established and properly maintained quality system in accordance with the ISO 9001:2008 international standards.

The company was awarded the certificate by the internationally accredited Slovenian Institute of Quality and Metrology in Ljubljana, which is also a member of the international association IQNet.

The ISO 9001 quality certificate is a confirmation of our efforts and investments in assuring constant quality of basic and additional port services, and not least of all, meeting the expectations of our customers.

Nowadays, more and more organisations strive to achieve and demonstrate a proper attitude towards the environment. This means that they know and control the impacts of their activities, products and services on the environment.
Luka Koper, d.d. is no exception. Preservation of the environment and a system for dealing with the environment in the narrower and broader area influenced by Luka Koper, d.d. are becoming increasingly important components of the comprehensive quality system.
Thus, monitoring and controlling environmental impacts is turning into one of the company's regular activities. Our procedures and operation focus on the prevention of conditions which could endanger the environment or the health and safety of people. The established environment management system is systematic and well-planned, integrated into the business system of Luka Koper, and is supported and carried out by all employees.

The company also received the ISO 14001 certificate for its environment management system set up according to international standards. In May 2006 the certificate was upgraded to ISO 14001:2004 standard.


Responsible attitude towards natural and living environment is reflected in:

• consistent implementation of the environmental policy,
• raising the awareness of the employees as regards preventive actions and rational use of energy sources,
• and investments in environmental programmes.

Due to binding regulatory provisions and additional improvement of the quality of foodstuff handling and warehousing services, we decided to set up the HACCP system of internal supervision and to integrate it in the existing management system.

This is a comprehensive system, enabling identification, assessment, measures and supervision over harmful agents (microbiological, chemical and physical) potentially present in foodstuffs which can represent a health hazard. The system provides supervision over the entire handling and warehousing process of a certain food product and constant supervision at those points in foodstuffs trade where risk may occur.
The goal of the system is greater safety of foodstuffs, ensuring that a food product is not harmful to the consumer's health.

The established HACCP system means that the company can supervise the entire handling and warehousing process as well as all other activities involving foodstuffs, since it is aware that this process, which is partly in our hands, has a huge influence on the final quality of foodstuffs.

The HACCP system was in 2007 upgraded with certification under ISO Standard 22000:2005 - "Food safety management systems - a requirements for any organisation in the food chain"

International standard BS OHSAS 18001:2007 Health and safety management system specifies requirements for the occupational health and safety system, to enable the organization to control its risks and improve its performance. Certificate was formally acquired in year 2008.

»It is not enough merely to undertake what is written, and follow the established standards. We must set and appropriately validate ever greater objectives, as well as accomplish and constantly improve our results« is the principle that guides us towards business excellence.

1999 – Luka Koper embarks on the pursuit of business excellence as a process of transformation and ongoing change. In order to systematically define the areas to be improved, the company introduced self-assessment in accordance with the EFQM business excellence model.

2001 – Improvements in every area of operation remain constant and ongoing. The compliance of operations is regularly measured through self-assessment in accordance with the criteria of the European model of business excellence. The Government of the Republic of Slovenia bestows Luka Koper with a special award for outstanding progress in the implementation of the business excellence model.

2002 – The company attains the National Award for Business Excellence, granted each year by the state to companies and organisations for achievements in the field of product, service and performance quality. This honour was granted in the category of service provision enterprises with over 250 employees.

2004 – The culture of excellence is promoted among employees. Self-assessment - in accordance with the EFQM model - is performed across all divisions, as well as within the Luka Koper INPO and Luka Koper Pristan subsidiaries.

2005 – Luka Koper becomes a member of the European Foundation for Business Excellence, and participates in the Recognised for Excellence assessment procedure for the European Business Excellence Award, which it goes on to win. By way of this achievement, Luka Koper becomes the first Slovenian service-sector company to gain such an accolade.  

2006 – Luka Koper enters the competition for the most prestigious European Business Excellence Award, and becomes an Excellence Award Finalist  - yet further proof of the company’s competitiveness amongst the very best enterprises in Europe.

The company has set up a system ensuring separate handling and storage of genetically unmodified goods, whereby the risk of goods being contaminated by genetically modified goods is eliminated. Thanks to the introduction of this system, Luka Koper has additionally improved the quality of its services, as the customers are now guaranteed that the identity of the goods is preserved.

Our liquid cargoes terminal is ISCC EU certificated for all type of biomass, which are included in ISCC EU system following the EC Directive on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources.

This document certificates the production, processing, sorting, packaging, warehousing and transport of organic food and foodstuff with the valid regulation for ecological farming. We operate in accordance with this regulation within all phases of handling and storing operations in order to preserve the qualities of a ecological produce.

Luka Koper has an AEO certificate, thereby gaining Authorised Economic Operator status. AEO certification testifies to the fact that the Luka Koper customs zone is a safe area, and that cargo transported via the Port of Koper is subject to a very low degree of risk.

The number of Luka Koper AEO certificate is: SIAEOSSI001800201131452.

Storage and transhipment of feed stuff is carried out following requirements of GMP⁺ B3 standard.