The way in which the state approached the establishment of the so-called water terminal at Tivat Airport is, to say the least, frivolous, which is confirmed by the position of the most meritorious body - the Civil Aviation Agency of Montenegro (ACV), which expressed great reservations about the impact of that facility on safety. performing aircraft operations.
ACV is recognized by the Air Traffic Act as a regulatory body in the field of air traffic, i.e. the supreme aviation authority, without whose approval nothing can be done that has an impact on safety, i.e. the safety of aviation operations in the country.
"In accordance with our powers, and based on a detailed expert analysis, we are of the opinion that any construction or activities in the immediate vicinity of operational areas, of any airport, must be reduced to a minimum, in order to give priority to the safe performance of aircraft operations, especially in conditions of emergency procedures, so as not to endanger the safety of passengers, aircraft and equipment. Considering that parts of the infrastructure of the water terminal are planned to be built in the area of the protective surfaces of Tivat Airport (which will increase the presence of passengers, vehicles and accompanying equipment), we believe that the above may have a negative impact on air traffic, as well as on the users of the water terminal on In this context, it is necessary for Tivat Airport to implement protective measures, so that the new infrastructure does not affect the safety of air operations and the safety of passengers using the water terminal", ACV told "Vijesta".
When asked what their definitive position is regarding the way in which the so-called the water terminal of Tivat Airport, i.e. the method and protocols for the functioning of that facility, from CAA replied that "The Agency was not in possession of technical documentation on any details related to the way of managing the facility, establishing passenger movement corridors, determining waiting areas, boarding and disembarking in and out of vehicles/buses and the like".
"From the perspective of the impact on the safety of civil aviation, and according to the current plan, the use of infrastructure space is not in the security-protected zone of the airport, and therefore would not have an impact on the security of the protected zone", they pointed out.
The construction of a temporary so-called of the water terminal is one of the priorities highlighted by the current government of Prime Minister Dritan Abazović, in order to allegedly reduce the problems that passengers from Tivat airport have during the road transfer from that airport to their final destinations, and due to the catastrophically congested Adriatic highway through Tivat in summer.
At the end of May, the government adopted a decision to begin the urgent arrangement of the temporary water terminal at the location of Kukoljina, which the natives of Tivat call Blato. The construction works on the cleaning and arrangement of space on the cadastral plot 1261/2 KO Mrčevac, which is financed by JP Morsko dobro from Budva, began without that company receiving the necessary and required urban planning and technical conditions (UTU) from the Secretariat for Spatial Planning of the Municipality of Tivat. nor from the departmental Ministry of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism, considering that the location is included in the valid state study of the "Tivat Airport" location.
The request for the issuance of the UTU Morsko dobro submitted to the Secretariat for Spatial Planning on June 8, but it has not yet received them because that body has not yet received the official positions of several state institutions or companies that, according to the legal procedure, must declare themselves on such a request, and among which is the position of ACV.
Morsko dobro embarked on the development of a "water terminal" worth around 30.000 euros without any basis in its 2022 Program for the use of funds of that JP, which was previously adopted by the Government and in which there is no such item, when it comes to investments in the territory of the municipality of Tivat for this year.
Despite this, Morsko dobro has, over the past twenty days, concreted the plateau that leads to the previously constructed concrete embankment at the Blato site, built a small sanitary facility, arranged and asphalted a large plateau for parking vehicles, installed electricity infrastructure, lighting and horticulturally landscaped the entire area. by planting various plants and trees.
All this Morsko dobro is doing by referring to its "Program of temporary facilities in the zone of marine property for the territory of the Municipality of Tivat for the period 2019-2023", by which, in addition to one larger and one smaller temporary catering facility, one "prefab -demountable temporary building with dimensions of 65 x 24 x 6 meters", with a total area of 1.300 square meters with the purpose of "assembly hall - passenger terminal".
In the water area near the existing concrete pier, it is planned to install another temporary object in the sea - a floating pontoon mooring with dimensions of 50 x 2,5 meters.
Currently, there is only one smaller floating mooring pontoon, 15 meters long.
The temporary facility conceived in this way at this location is much larger than the permanent one envisaged by DSL "Aerodrom Tivat" for the final water terminal.
However, for its use in terms of berthing of vessels and according to the current "Program of temporary facilities in the zone of maritime property for the territory of the Municipality of Tivat for the period 2019-2023", it is necessary to obtain the formal consent of the CAA.
ACV previously prescribed that vessels whose height is higher than 3 meters above the sea surface cannot land here, since the location is located within the narrowest contact zone of the threshold of runway 14 of Tivat airport and "breaks through" its so-called. horizontal transition planes.
Morsko dom has already breached that restriction by planting several tree saplings that are already over 3 meters high above sea level, and are even closer to the threshold of Runway 14 than is the case with the mooring pontoon on which vessels lower than that can dock. limit.
However, the absence of formal consent from the competent authorities and the reservations of the supreme aviation authority regarding this concept of a "water terminal" did not prevent Prime Minister Abazović from last Sunday, accompanied by the Minister of Capital Investments Ervin Ibrahimović (BS), Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism Ana Novaković-Đurović (URA) and economic development and tourism Goran Đurović (URA), visited this location and expressed satisfaction with what is happening here.
In the company of the prime minister and ministers at that time were also the heads of the Sea Property Mladen Mikijelj and Blažo Rađenović, and members of the Board of Directors of the Airport of Montenegro Nebojša Đoković and Eldin Dobardžić.
As it was said at the time, Morsko dobro and ACG will jointly manage the wharf from which only shippers who have already responded to Morsko dobro's ad will be able to pick up passengers. To transport passengers from the terminal building of the airport to the pier in Kukoljina, as was heard, the internal roads of the airport, which are now used by taxi drivers to access the terminal, will be used, which will avoid the congested Jadranska magistrala.
"The water terminal was the promise of the Prime Minister, and what we are getting now in Kukoljina is not the classic water terminal that Tivat airport and Montenegro deserve, but a temporary solution that we achieved in record time. Tourists who will land at the airport and then use this terminal for further transfers, I think will have a completely different and much more beautiful and intense first experience of Boka and Montenegro and will not wait in long lines on the roads", said Abazović, adding that he hopes that from autumn "there will be a serious operator who will organize the water terminal in Tivat in an even better way for the next season".
He pointed out that large resorts will probably have a free mooring for their vessels with which they will pick up their guests from the water terminal in Tivat, and when asked by "Vijesti" whether they have the approval of the ACV for such an improvised solution in the sensitive and protected contact zone of the airport, the prime minister said that "there was a dilemma regarding the ACV's position".
"I absolutely support it because they expressed their concern about the proximity of the water terminal to the runway and the airport fence. That, in my opinion, is the professional approach of ACV. However, I think that the project can be completed and that operations can be carried out through it without restrictions", Abazović said, adding that "safety and security remain a priority so that we do not end up in a situation where aircraft and passengers are endangered".
That everything is, however, a matter of great improvisation, which is done without adequate documentation, is also confirmed by the answer of the ACV to the question "Vijesti" whether their inspectors have visited this location in the meantime, because it is located in a very sensitive zone with regard to horizontal transition planes of the Tivat airport.
"On June 22, 06, at the request of JP Morsko, the Inspector of the Agency thoroughly inspected the said location and inspected the condition of the port dock, and since there is no adequate documentation for the said facility, he verbally gave instructions to the representatives of Morsko dobr, in what way and under under what conditions it is possible to arrange the surface of the harbor dock. The surface of the dock is located in the area of the approach surface for runway threshold 2022, i.e. the departure surface from runway threshold 14 of Tivat Airport, and accordingly the height criteria for the construction/installation of physical objects must be met, so that they do not represent an aviation obstacle ".
They say that they still cannot prohibit the operation of the improvised "water terminal" because their competences "exclusively relate to air transport entities".
Taking into account the fact that the terminal is not a facility that is an integral part of the airport infrastructure, but a separate facility, which was built on the coastal area managed by JP Morsko dobro "ACV in accordance with the current plan and given guidelines, would have no reason to prohibit the use of this facility ".
"Also, the operation of the terminal (acceptance/transportation of passengers in the part of the water terminal) would not be subject to the supervision of the ACV, because those passengers will be subject to the regular security procedure of Tivat Airport".
A terminal for VIP passengers from business aviation flights?
Although the Government and the Maritime Administration have created the impression in the public that all passengers who want to will be transferred through the "water terminal", ACG has indirectly confirmed that this will not be the case, but only an extremely small number of passengers will use it.
"With the representatives of the two resorts that have so far expressed interest in the ship transfer of passengers from and to Tivat Airport, the procedures for the acceptance and transfer of passengers from Terminal 2 to the water terminal have been agreed upon. After leaving the terminal building, passengers will be directed to Terminal 2, where a hotel vehicle will be waiting for them to take them to the water terminal. In this way, vehicles with passengers will not enter the main road Budva-Tivat. The airports of Montenegro will set up a ramp in front of Terminal 2 and in this way the entry/exit of vehicles will be regulated. Works on the development of this road are in progress", it was announced from the ACG after the visit of Abazović and the ministers.
"Vijesti" informs that only a small number of VIP guests will be able to use this type of transfer, who go primarily to the Portonovi resort in Kumbor, i.e. to a lesser extent to Porto Montenegroo in Tivat, and who arrive at Tivat airport on flights of private and business planes from the so-called general aviation.
There are not nearly so many of those passengers that they, and the number of cars they use, would affect the creation of crowds on the Jadranskj highway to Tivat and Kumbor.
That the "water terminal" will not actually solve the problem of congestion in road traffic is also shown by the indirect recognition of ACG that the facility will not be able to be used for ship transfers by possibly interested passengers from numerous commercial flights arriving at Tivat airport and that this issue (the essential motive for entering in the whole story called the water terminal) is not even regulated at all.
"In order to possibly transport passengers of commercial aviation, who express a desire for transportation by water to certain destinations, ACG continues communication with the president of the Municipality of Tivat", they said from ACG.
"Vijesti" is still waiting for Morski Dobr's answers to a set of questions related to the way they approached the arrangement, equipment and organization of the functioning of the controversial new temporary facility on the Tivat coast.
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