October the 21st, 2024 – Ploče Port has made huge strides forward, even going as far as to become the first 5G port in Croatia. Could all that be disrupted by a port in a neighbouring country with barely any coastline to speak of?
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the recent flooding that struck Jablanica and other places in Bosnia and Herzegovina was called a natural disaster. It caused enough serious issues to put the railway system that was the main route for supplying goods to the Tuzla and Zenica-Doboj cantons entirely out of function.
That was when the unlikely Brčko Port appeared on the map as a reliable alternative to that original route by which goods were transported.
Perica Josić, the director of Brčko Port, claimed that this port definitely has capacity and is ready for a large amount of transshipment. He hopes that in the future that this Bosnian port will no longer be a mere alternative but the first solution. How much this affect Ploče Port just across the border in EU and Schengen member Croatia, which has been coming on leaps and bounds in terms of digitisation and modernity?
“As things currently stand, alterations in supply routes are being made and everything now depends on the solutions of the overseas companies whose ships transported goods to Ploče Port. Now the question is whether these ships will continue to go to Ploče Port, or whether they will go to Split, or possibly elsewhere. If all these ships are diverted to Constanța (an important port in Romania), then the logical solution is that all these goods will be transshipped via Brčko Port here in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” said Josić for RTV HIT.
He added that they are in constant contact with clients and that they’re well on their way to making it happen, and this could throw a very large spanner in the works for Ploče Port in southern Dalmatia.
“In about six months, I think that about one hundred thousand tonnes of goods will arrive in Brčko Port,” he added.
Josić announced that from Monday next week onwards, the transshipment of three thousand tonnes from Zenica for export, as well as the import of one thousand tonnes of anthracite to Lukavac, will begin. As he explained, these quantities are part of the planned transshipment of Brčko Port for the current year.
