Review article
Sava River Basin-inland waterway regulatory framework and infrastructure
Željko Milković
; Deputy Secretary for Navigation International Sava River Basin Commission
Abstract
The Sava River was important transport line in former Yugoslavia but during the conflict in the last decade of the 20. century the waterway on the Sava River was neglected and very poorly maintained and transport was practically stopped. Taking into account great transport potential and environmental value of the Sava River, four riparian countries Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia committed themselves to environmentally sustainable development of inland navigation on the Sava River and its navigable tributaries, signed Framework Agreement on the Sava River Basin (FASRB) and established the International Sava River Basin Commission (ISRBC). ISRBC is unique river commission in Europe which is dealing with navigation and water management issues in the same place. In the framework of the ISRBC the countries started with the development of the unique regulatory framework for inland navigation and with rehabilitation and development of the waterway. The progress, achieved in the field of navigation in period from the beginning of the work of the ISRBC, meets, to a great extent, the expectations posed by the Parties but the activities are continuing and the infrastructure rehabilitation on the Sava River, expected to be completed around 2016 and, in the same time, more measures necessary to support further development of the IWT sector is expected to be implemented.
Keywords
Sava River Basin; inland waterway transport; regulatory framework; infrastructure development
Hrčak ID:
68101
URI
Publication date:
24.5.2011.
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