The European Union's Southeast Europe programme supporting … DaHar – Danube Inland Harbour Development Status Quo – Port of Novi Sad This project is co-funded by the A project implemented by the European Union DaHar partnership Danube Inland Harbour Development Title of Report Status Quo – Port of Novi Sad Version Final version Date of version November 02nd, 2012 Status Public Main authors Port of Novi Vladica Culafic Sad Nenad Davidovic University of Milosav Georgijevic Novi Sad, Sanja Bojic Faculty of Technical Sciences This project is co-funded by the European Union Status Quo – Port of Novi Sad Document History: Version Comments Date Authorized by 1 05.09.2012. Milosav Georgijevic 2 02.11.2012. Milosav Georgijevic 3 4 Contributing author(s) of the Document: Organization(s) Author(s) This publication has been produced with the assistance of the European Union. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the DaHar project partnership and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union. DaHar This project is co-funded by the European Union page 3 of 29 Status Quo – Port of Novi Sad Table of content 1 General data ................................................................................................................................ 6 1.1 Brief history ........................................................................................................................... 6 1.2 Location ................................................................................................................................ 6 1.3 Hinterland connections ......................................................................................................... 7 1.4 DTD Canal network ............................................................................................................ 10 1.5 Proprietary status ................................................................................................................ 14 1.6 Infrastructure and equipment .............................................................................................. 14 2 Port operations .......................................................................................................................... 15 2.1 Cargo handling in the port ................................................................................................... 15 2.2 Containers handling ............................................................................................................ 17 2.3 Passenger services ............................................................................................................ 17 2.4 Port tariffs ........................................................................................................................... 19 2.5 Port surrounding ................................................................................................................. 20 2.6 Structure of export and import cargoes in the region of APV .............................................. 21 3 Port of Novi Sad and RIS ........................................................................................................... 24 4 Port development plans ............................................................................................................. 24 5 Legislation.................................................................................................................................. 26 6 Port and environment ................................................................................................................. 28 7 SWOT analysis of the Port of Novi Sad ..................................................................................... 28 DaHar This project is co-funded by the European Union page 4 of 29 Status Quo – Port of Novi Sad Abbreviations DaHar Danube Inland Harbour Development IWT Inland Waterway Transport DTD Danube – Tisa – Danube canal APV Autonomous Province of Vojvodina SC Supply Chain DaHar This project is co-funded by the European Union page 5 of 29 Status Quo – Port of Novi Sad 1 General data 1.1 Brief history The city was founded in 1694, when Serbian merchants formed a colony on the Danube across from the Petrovaradin fortress. In the 18th and 19th centuries, it became an important trading and manufacturing centre, as well as a centre of Serbian culture of that period, earning the nickname Serbian Athens. The name Novi Sad means "New Plantation" in Serbian. Its Latin name, stemming from establishment of city rights, is "Neoplanta". The emergence of the port is connected to a workstation, "Port and storage", which operated as a part of the "Heroj Pinki" from 1974. The Port is operating under current name since 1982. According to the results of the latest census in Serbia, conducted in October 2011, the urban area of Novi Sad has a population of 221.854, while its municipal area has a population of 335.701. 1.2 Location The Port of Novi Sad is situated at 45°20′N and 19°51′E, in the central part of the autonomous province of Vojvodina in northern Serbia. "Luka Novi Sad A.D. " is located at km 1254 at the left bank of the Danube, in the Novi Sad – Savino selo Canal (part of the Danube – Tisa – Danube - DTD Canal network) at its km 0.4 - 1.2. It covers an area of 24 ha. Port is situated at the intersection of the two Pan-European transport corridors (naval corridor VII and road and rail corridor X) and it is an important transport and cargo handling centre of Central Europe. This clearly indicates a good geographical position of the port and determines the direction of development in order to meet the needs of the local economic environment and international flows of goods, with particular attention to the development of multimodal transport. The distance between the Port and the corridors: • 300 m to the railway corridor Xb • 3 km to the road corridor Xb. DaHar This project is co-funded by the European Union page 6 of 29 Status Quo – Port of Novi Sad Figure 1. Port of Novi Sad 1.3 Hinterland connections The Port of Novi Sad facilitates river and river-sea transport in two directions: the Danube - east and the Danube - west. The direction Danube - east provides links with: • All international ports along the Danube, downstream from Novi Sad. In addition to the ports in Serbia, those are: Bulgarian ports (Vidin, Lom, Ruse, Silistra,...), Romanian ports (Cernavoda, Braila, Galati, Giurgiu, a canal and Constanta...) and Ukrainian ports (Reni and Izmail). • Black Sea ports Varna, Burgas, Constanta. • Over the Black Sea ports, the port has a direct connection with the Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic and Indian oceans. The direction Danube - west provides links with: • All international ports along the Danube upstream of Novi Sad, as are: Hungarian ports (Baja, Dunaujvaros, Budapest,...), Slovak ports (Komarno, Bratislava), Austrian port (Vienna, Linz, Enns) and German ports (Passau, Regensburg, Kelheim) • Rhine region over the Rhine - Main - Danube Canal with Germany, Switzerland, France and the Netherlands, which provides way to the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean. DaHar This project is co-funded by the European Union page 7 of 29 Status Quo – Port of Novi Sad Active line service is a container line: ZIM Integrated Shipping Services - Jugoagent (Constanta - Belgrade - Constance). Until recently there was an active line service managed by Helogistics (Constanta - Budapest - Constanta). Figure 2. Danube as an inland waterway The port has three - modal hinterland connections: 1. IW connection with the Rivers Tisa and Sava, as well as Danube – Tisa – Danube Cannel network (DTD Canal has the length of 600 km), Figure 3. Rivers in the Serbian part of the Danube basin and the DTD Cannel DaHar This project is co-funded by the European Union page 8 of 29 Status Quo – Port of Novi Sad 2. Road connection with the road corridor X, precisely Xb, (E75 at the figure 4) and the network of local roads. Figure 4. Road network in the region 3. Railway connection with the corridor X and the network of local railways. Figure 5. Railway network in the region DaHar This project is co-funded by the European Union page 9 of 29 Status Quo – Port of Novi Sad In accordance with the decisions of the EU's third conference in Helsinki (1997.), Corridor X includes rail and road line Salzburg - Ljubljana - Zagreb - Belgrade - Nis - Skopje - Veles – Thessaloniki. The length of the railway lines is 2528 km and road lines 2300 km, including following branches: • Branch A: Graz - Maribor - Zagreb • Branch B: Budapest - Novi Sad - Belgrade (294 km) • Branch C: Niš - Sofia - Plovdiv - Dimitrovgrad - Istanbul via Corridor IV • Branch D: Veles - Prilep - Bitola - Florina - Igoumenitsa (Via Egnatia) 1.4 DTD Canal network1 The DTD Hydro system is located in the autonomous province of Vojvodina and is subdivided into two areas due to the presence of the river Tisa. The two areas are the Bačka area to the west and the Banat area in the east. Moreover the rivers Tisa, Begej and Tamis are part of the DTD Hydro system. The DTD Hydro system has a total of 12 navigable canals in the Bačka and Banat area. Out of its total length of 600.6 km, about 355.5 km are in Bačka and 245.1 km in Banat. These canals are connected to the Danube and Tisa. The entire DTD Hydro system is managed by the DTD administration of Vode Vojvodine. The DTD Hydro system canals enable navigation of self-propelled barges and single-barge formations due to very small dimensions of the waterways, locks and navigable bridge openings, as