Port development Sabac
Port development project in Sabac, Serbia
Since May 2010, TINA VIENNA has cooperated with its Serbian partner Ehting to prepare a pre-feasibility study for a port in the Serbian city of Sabac. Sabac is located on the Sava, which empties into the Danube at Belgrade. The Sava is the subject of several multilateral agreements and hence also an international waterway.
Under its MEGA (Municipal Economic Growth Activity) programme, USAID has invited tenders for a study to draw up a port development concept for Sabac. The main aspects to be covered by this pre-feasibility study include technical, economic, planning, social and environmental considerations as well as a feasibility assessment.
The project can be divided into two parts:
1. Economic and social review of the need for the construction of a new port facility
2. Conceptional considerations for the future port facility based on future transport flows on the Sava and on rail and roads and the development potential of the transhipment node.
The project will be implemented in five working packages:
* Establishment of basic data
* Regional and transport-related aspects
* Technical solutions predefining a rough concept for the future port
* Economic aspects and
* Environmental aspects
A financial analysis constitutes the central planning element to evaluate the future economic and financial feasibility of the port project in Sabac. In view of the fact that the port project will be implemented as a public-private partnership (PPP) project, the financial analysis of the project will be conducted from both the public sector‘s and the operator's/investors‘ view, whereby special importance will be attached to the future operating scheme for the port itself.
The pre-feasibility study will be completed by September 2010.