During a recent visit to Bar, where he was present for the handover of the new rescue ship to the Maritime Safety Directorate, Minister of Traffic and Maritime Affairs Osman Nurkovic briefly spoke about the plans of the Government to unite the Montenegrin national cargo fleet. The Minister's statement on that occasion is in disagreement with the assumptions of the maritime navy officials in Bar.
"We have been conducting the analysis for a year, considering the situation, our goal is not merging these companies, but the ships in one fleet. "The state only owns Montenegro Sailing", and “AD Barska plovidba” is a joint stock company, we wanted to enable "Barska Sailing" to buy a passenger ship because, unfortunately, the famous "Saint" lost his class and was sold for scraps, so that the rest of the people in this company would have the opportunity to work and to sail, while in “Montenegrin Sailing", all four cargo ships will be unified in one in order to be more competitive when delivering bids, with fewer costs for maintenance and procurement of the material. When you're bidding to rent four ships, it's a different story than when you have only two. We would have higher incomes, and thus we would pay off the loans for all four boats much easier," Minister Nurkovic told reporters.
From “AD Barska plovidba”, where the board of directors is in session, there have been no comments so far concerning these ministerial allegations.
Asked by "Vijesti" how far they came with the procedure in the case of a concession act to grant a concession for services in the Port of Bar, Minister Nurkovic replied that this would soon be in front of the government.
"We delivered the information to the government, there were objections, they have been implemented, and after the holidays, this will go again to the government, there is no dilemma," Nurkovic said.
These port services include a pilot service, mooring and ship dismantling, hailing, dragging or plunging vessels, delivery of water to harbor yachts, transportation of port authorities to the boats in Port Bar aquatorium and transport of barge to ships in the harbor.
Text by Radomir Petric, on April 25th, 2019, read more at Vijesti
