Serbia works to wake up "sleeping giant" Danube

The Danube flows through ten countries and connects four capitals, whose names (in Serbian) all start with B: Bratislava, Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade.

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Wednesday, 24.04.2019.

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Serbia works to wake up "sleeping giant" Danube

Now the project "Wake up the Danube" wants to change that and give priority to nautical tourism, said the public broadcaster.

Europe's second largest river, the Danube in Serbia is a sleeping giant, which would, if it were to be woken up, fill up the tourism coffers. Thanks to the morphological diversity, the river's 588 kilometers through Serbia represent the most beautiful part of its flow.

During the last nautical season, 1,150 cruisers stopped at six international passenger ports, mostly in Belgrade, Novi Sad, and Donji Milanovac.

"During the project, we opened three passenger ports: Kladovo, Smederevo, and Golubac. As a positive result, I can tell you that in Golubac alone in the first season last year we had 44 ships dock and over 6,000 passengers", director of the Agency for Port Management, Vuk Perovic, stressed.

The opening of the port of Zemun has been announced for May. Authorities say they have succeeded in convincing the most important decision-makers in the country of the importance of water transport, and several important projects are now under way.

"Their total value at this time is 205 million euros, but with several other important projects we are planning to do by the end of this year, it will come to close to 400 million euros, something that the Republic of Serbia has not seen in the last 30 years," said assistant minister of Civil Engineering, Transport and Infrastructure, Veljko Kovacevic.

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