📋 Tender Overview
Beneficiaries: Serbia
Lead IFI: EIB
Sector: Transport
Type: Investment grant
Status: Active
Date of completion: 31 Aug 2027
Total WBIF grant: € 16,432,624
The Danube is navigable throughout Serbia (588 km). Still, at the Djerdap gorge, downstream of the Port of Prahovo, the fairway narrows significantly due to the presence of shipwrecks sunk at the end of World War II. Through this intervention, 21 shipwrecks will be removed from the Danube, which will eliminate the existing 5 km-long traffic bottlenecks.
Therefore, this investment will facilitate the shift from road to waterway transport, support economic growth, enhance connectivity in the region and with the EU, and strengthen regional cooperation. As such, the action has been identified as Flagship "Connecting East to West" within the Investment Window "Sustainable Transport" as foreseen in the EU's Economic and Investment Plan for the Western Balkans.
