The municipality of Tivat leased to the Public Enterprise Morsko dobro one office space on the ground floor of the House of Culture in Lepetane, in which the state-owned company will in the future perform administrative and technical work related to liner maritime traffic (ferry transport) on the Kamenari-Lepetane line.
According to the decision approved by the councilors at the session, on Friday the Municipality will rent a 44-square-meter office space to Morsko Dobr for a period of one year with the possibility of extension. Morsko dobo is obliged to pay a monthly rent of 440 euros to the local administration and to bear 80 percent of the total costs of electricity and water consumed in the Lepetan Cultural Center. According to the decision, this space is given "until another solution is found" for housing the services of that company, which will perform tasks related to the functioning of ferry transport in Boka.
According to unofficial information, Morsko dobro reached a similar agreement with the Ministry of Defense according to which the company will use one of the facilities in the Lepetane military warehouse for the purpose of functioning of its technical workshop, which is necessary for the daily exploitation of the ferry.
By order of the Government, Morsko Dobro last month terminated the lease contract for the ferry line Kamenari - Lepetani with the private company "Pomorski sabražen" and took over this line. to maintain this line.
"Marine traffic" owned by a businessman Dušan i Dejan Bana and their partner Željko Mihailović has operated this ferry line since 2004.
For the maintenance of the line, which brought them millions in revenue, the owners of "Pomorski sabražba" paid Morska Dobr a fee in the amount of four percent of the revenue from the sold train tickets, which amounted to between 2004 and 200 thousand euros per year, according to the contract from 300.
In Croatia, the state company bought the ferry "Prizna", which was withdrawn from use last year by the state shipping company Jadrolinija due to technological obsolescence and low capacity and sold to ABM Tours for around 90.000 euros. That company sold "Prizna" to the Montenegrin state company for 570.000 euros last Sunday, according to currently unconfirmed information from Morski Dobr. This ferry is 53 years old and its technical characteristics are not adapted to the existing coastal infrastructure at the ferry piers in Lepetani and Kamenari, which is why those piers will have to be reconstructed in order to adapt the boarding "slots" to the dimensions and technical characteristics of the "Prizna".
"Maritime Traffic" submitted a request to the Commercial Court for the imposition of a temporary measure, which would return the Kamenari - Lepetane line to that company, until the final settlement of the lawsuit it will initiate against the state due to, as they believe, the illegal termination of the valid contract they had with Morski dobro.
The owners of "Pomorski sabrojka" have been making millions of profits for the past 19 years, and they own six ferries.
Three of their oldest and smallest ships - "Kamenari", "Lepetane" and "Perast" were originally built as landing rafts of the PDS type for the needs of the former Yugoslav Navy (JRM) in Pula, way back in 1954. In the early 710s, JRM sold those three ships to the forerunner of Maritime Transport - Municipal Enterprise Herceg Novi, which at that time maintained the line across the Veriga strait in Boka, so the former PDS - 711, PDS-712 and PDS-2009 were in the first half of the XNUMXs in Tivat Arsenal, completely reconstructed and rebuilt into the ferries "Kamenari", "Lepetane" and "Perast" as we know them today. After the privatization of "Marine Transport" in XNUMX and later in Bijela, these three ships were thoroughly renovated and a significant part of the hull structure and steel sheeting was replaced, and new engines were installed. Several former PDS ships of the former JRM, built in the mid-XNUMXs, and later converted into ferries, according to a similar concept as applied to these three "Marine Transport" ships, still sail in Croatia today.
"Marine traffic" also has a slightly larger ferry of a similar technical concept - "Igalo", built in 1982 on Korčula, as well as another almost identical but modernized such ship - "Teodo" built in 2011 in Pula, while in 2009 "Morne traffic" ” in Izola, Slovenia, built a significantly larger new ferry with a modern design, which was named "Grbalj". All six ships of that company have their technical characteristics adapted to the specific requirements of the Kamenari-Lepetane ferry line, especially the characteristics of the local water area, coastal infrastructure and prevailing weather conditions, and where possible, the unification of technical equipment and propulsion complex has been applied to them. , in order to simplify and make the maintenance and exploitation of those ships cheaper. The Maritime Administration is forced to urgently buy ships, with different drives and technical characteristics with a low probability that they fully correspond to the most efficient maintenance of the ferry line in Boka.
"Prizna" changes its name to "30. August"
The ferry, for which the administrative-technical procedure of re-registration and registration under the Montenegrin flag is still ongoing, has received a new name, so "Prizna" will be called "30. August".
This was confirmed yesterday for TV Vijesti as a guest on the TV Vijesti program, the executive director of Morski Dobr Mladen Mikijelj (DF) adding that the new name of this ferry alludes to the 2020 election date. In those elections, DPS lost power in Montenegro after three decades. Mikijelj emphasized that the Morski Dobr management chose that name for the ship on the recommendation of one of the DF leaders. Andrije Mandić.
"I think August 30 is a symbol that made it possible to bring about change because of all the predatory privatizations that happened in the past 30 years. Name “30. August" we gave on the recommendation of Andrija Mandić", said Mikijelj.
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