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Feasibility Study and Project Documentation for the Rehabilitation and Development of Transport and Navigation on the Sava River Waterway

end:  01.07.2008.start:  01.12.2007.
The main objective of the Study was to recommend the strategy and programs for the development of the Sava River waterway and to provide an appropriate economic and organizational framework for restoring trade and navigation (cargo and passengers) on the Sava with an aim to do as follows:

  1. Improve public and private investments into transport on the Sava River, in accordance with adequate economic and financial analysis;
  2. Propose enhancement of coordination of activities regarding inland navigation and to set up priorities of public interests;
  3. Obtain an integrated approach considering water management, energy production, flood control and environmental aspects in the Sava River basin; and
  4. Propose improvement of the infrastructure.
The final outcome of the Study is the Rehabilitation to SCC Class Va of Sava River, section Belgrade–Sisak, as detailed in Final Report with respect to (re)construction, operation, maintenance, and development of waterway infrastructure and:
  1. Provides guidelines for Sava Commission for the short-term, mid-term, and long-term policy for the development of the Sava River;
  2. Setting the priorities concerning investments, operations and maintenance, based on the cost benefit analysis; and
  3. Discussing access to international financial institutions as this will speed up the process of (re)construction, maintenance, and development of infrastructure.
Study overview:
Commencement Date:
December 1st, 2007
Completion Time:
8 months
Lead consultant:
Pacific Consultants International (Japan),
in association with:
  • Witteveen+Bos (The Netherlands);
  • NEA – Transport Research and Training (The Netherlands);
  • CRUP – Inland Navigation Development Centre (Croatia);
  • Dvokut – ECRO (Croatia).
Beneficiary Countries:
The signatory countries of the Framework Agreement of the Sava River Basin (FASRB) - Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Slovenia.

Beneficiary Institutions:
  • The International Sava River Basin Commission (ISRBC);
  • The Ministry of Communications and Transport of Bosnia and Herzegovina;
  • The Ministry for Infrastructure of Republic of Serbia (the Sector for Water Transport and Safety of Navigation);
  • The Ministry of the Sea, Tourism, Transport and Development of Republic of Croatia;
  • The Ministry of Transport of Republic of Slovenia.
Contracting Authority:
The International Sava River Basin Commission (ISRBC).

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