Judging by the just published Public Procurement Plan for 2024 of the Public Enterprise for the Management of Marine Resources (JPMD), this state-owned company will continue the trend of minimal investments in coastal infrastructure in the area of the municipality of Tivat this year.
JPMD has been investing almost nothing in rehabilitation and revitalization of coastal infrastructure for years. In the smallest municipality of Bokelje, from where that company annually earns over 900 thousand euros from tenants of marine property. The only place where Morsko dobro invests to any extent in the area of Tivat is the special nature reserve "Tivatska Solila", whose JMD is the official manager, but these investments are mostly reduced to the occasional replacement of worn-out wooden furniture, while more serious interventions, primarily those on regulation of the hydrological regime on the former salt production fields and their feeding canals, there is no question.
The only investment planned for Tivat in the Public Procurement Plan of the JPMD for this year is the "performance of works on the promenade from Sveto Rok to Lepetan", for which only 50.000 euros including VAT are provided. However, this is only a drop in the ocean because three years ago, when Morsko dobro first announced that it would begin the phased construction of the 2,3 kilometer long lungo mare promenade, it estimated that the realization of that project would cost a total of 2,4 million euros . To date, however, not even a shovel has been driven in for the construction of the promenade, despite numerous promises from the director of the Maritime Dobr Mladena Mikielja and the President of the Board of Directors of that state-owned company Blaž Rađenović that JPMD will certainly do it.
Apart from this symbolic investment, according to the Public Procurement Plan for 2024 in Tivat, JPMD will also spend a part of the total of 50.000 euros intended for "decoration and rehabilitation on Tivat's Solili and protected areas", while less than 23.000 euros will cost "creating a conceptual solution and the main project for the regulation of canals and watercourses in the Tivatska Slila reserve". For Tivat, this year's Public Procurement Plan of the Maritime Property also includes an item of 4.500 euros intended for "revision of the project documentation for the arrangement of the part of the promenade on the stretch from the church of Svetog Rok to the Ivovića park in a length of approx. 300 meters".
Morsko dobro invested not a single cent in Tivat last year in addition to smaller investments in the Solila nature reserve and about 30 thousand euros, which was spent by that company in addition to its Public Procurement Plan for last year in the construction of the "temporary water terminal of the Tivat airport", which was built without valid planning documentation. in a dangerous, so-called in the jet blast zone and in the place where that object negatively affects the safety of aviation operations on the Tivat airport runway.
"Given the scope of marine assets in Tivat, the needs of the municipality, the citizens and the improvement of the tourist offer, in 2023 the Public Company will begin the implementation of projects worth around 3,5 million euros, which is four times more than the income it collected from territory of this municipality during 2022. Also, in addition to the mentioned projects, the public enterprise will allocate funds for the arrangement of the plateau, emergency repairs, as well as funds for maintaining the cleanliness of unclaimed beaches and coastal infrastructure", announced the director of JPMD Mladen Mikijelj before the New Year 2023, when he met with the mayor of Tivat Željko Komnenović and his associates.
None of that, however, was realized last year, and the leaders of Morski Dobr in the meantime justified themselves by saying that the company had to invest millions of euros unplanned in taking over the ferry line in Boka Kotorska. They claimed that after that, not only Tivat, but also all other coastal cities in Montenegro will have huge benefits from the fact that Morsko dobro, instead of a private operator, will manage ferries and invest the profit from it in coastal infrastructure.
"As for infrastructure projects in Tivat, they will not be absent. Therefore, even to a greater extent than what we collected last year, these revenues will be returned to the Municipality", said the President of the Management Board of Maritime Resources, Blažo Radjenović, to journalists on June 9 last year.
None of this has been achieved by the end of 2023.
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