New mega and super yacht center
On 29 November 2018 the Government deciced to award the concession to 30 years for the use of the shipbuilding port in Bijela to the Porto Montenegro Consortium and the Netherlandish shipbuilding corporation Damen who will build a repair centar for mega and super yacht at that location.
The Government said it was a new value for nautical tourism and that is was an investment of 20 million euros in three years.
The Consortium’s offer was the same after the Ministry of Transport and Maritime Affairs and the Port Authority announced a tender for the award of this concession in the end of 2015 .
In order to build a repair center, in mid 2015, the Government introduced bankruptcy to the Adriatic Shipyard company on the proposal of the Tax Administration for a debt of 6 milion euros. Porto and Damen bought a part of the infrastructure of the former shipyard in the summer of last year for 2,65 million euros.
The Govenment assumed the obligation to clear the area od the former shipyard from grit, so that Porto Montenegro would start building a repair center at that location.
In October 2014 the Government signed a contract with the World Bank to finance projects „Industrial waste management and cleaning“ for four black spots in Montenegro, of which the most important is shipyard Bijela.
After complicated and long-lasting research and preparatory actions in September last year, a tender was launched for the selection of contractors for repair work, which involves the removal of about 15o thousand tons of grit and contamainted land. The job was assigned to the French company Vargo which has a 21-month time limit to complete the job.