The ship "Kotor" sailed into its home port for the first time

On the voyage from Bijela to Kotor, this 35.000-ton bulk carrier, with the sound of its ship's siren, greeted its home - Boka Kotorska and its home port, where "Kotor" arrived today for the first time since 2012, when it was built in the shipyard in Shanghai, China.

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The view from the command bridge as "Kotor" enters the Verige Strait, Photo: Vladimir Jokić
The view from the command bridge as "Kotor" enters the Verige Strait, Photo: Vladimir Jokić
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After a new left anchor with an anchor chain was installed today in the Adriatic42 shipyard in Bijela, the bulk cargo ship "Kotor" of the Crnogorska plovidba company from Kotor, sailed into its home port for the first time at around 16 p.m.

On the voyage from Bijela to Kotor, this 35.000-ton bulk carrier, with the sound of its ship's siren, greeted its home - Boka Kotorska and its home port, where "Kotor" arrived today for the first time since 2012, when it was built in the shipyard in Shanghai, China. .

According to tradition, "Kotor", which is the first domestic merchant ship to come to Kotor since October 1996, when a similar welcome was given here to Jugooceanija's bulk carrier "Pelinovo", greeted smaller vessels and the bay, and from the shore, locals waved white lentils and sugamans with the windows of their houses.

The firefighters of the Kotor Protection and Rescue Service and the "Bogoljub Brezić" Voluntary Fire Company from Perast, with water cannons and sounding the sirens of their vehicles, greeted from Turski and Cape Gospa od Anđela when the ship passed through the narrowest part of the Veriga Strait.

Upon arrival in the water area of ​​the port of Kotor, the ship "Kotor" was visited by a delegation of the management of the Crnogorska plovidba company, the departmental Ministry of Capital Investments and the Municipality of Kotor, foreseen by the mayor Vladimir Jokić.

Peđa Nikaljević, Vladimir Jokić
photo: Municipality of Kotor

Expressing his great satisfaction with the first arrival in the home port of the ship, which is the first in the fleet of the Montenegrin company, Jokić presented the captain of "Kotor" Captain Peđa Nikaljević with an appropriate gift - an artistic painting with the motif of the city whose name the ship bears.

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