The Port of Rijeka was once booming with industry, as was the ”city that flows” itself, but as times changed, so did the port and its purposes and capabilities. Over the last 100 years, Rijeka has ”changed hands” and been in many different countries, it has seen the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, monarchy and much more, and the Port of Rijeka has taken the brunt of every fall.
Could this large port located on the Kvarner Gulf, the very first written records of which date way back to the year 1281, become the largest container port in the entire Northern Adriatic area? That’s the aim.
As Morski writes on the 10th of December, 2019, the main goal for the Port of Rijeka during the period between 2025 and 2027 is to become the largest container port in the North Adriatic.
This was stated at the pre-Christmas gathering of the leading people working at the Port of Rijeka Authority with their concessionaires, contractors and various other business associates.
Director Denis Vukorepa has shown investments in Rijeka’s port pool in slideshows amounting to more than 600 million euros, Radio Rijeka reported.
A lot has been invested in the formerly busy Port of Rijeka, said Vukorepa, adding that that is why they have arranged the port of Bršica so that the loading on of timber and other stock can be completed at an even faster rate. The concession of Zagrebačka obala is yet to come. The concession will last thirty years if the concessionaire doesn’t request an extension to that allocated time period, and if he does want that, then he will get a concession for fifty years.
Works at Brajdica are set to follow, and this is part of the investment in port infrastructure and buildings, proper arrangement is also awaited by the Port of Bakar. It is expected that as many as forty parge passenger cruisers will come to visit the Port of Rijeka next year, when the city is the European Capital of Culture for 2020.
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