Danube
Out of 220 river ships know to have been sunken by the German Army in the Danube to the end of World War II, 30 had been taken out shortly after the war, while the remaining 183 had to be removed, Veljko Kovacevic, a representative of the Construction, Transportation and Infrastructure Ministry, said on June 2.
Kovacevic told RTS it had been established that 23 ships posed particular danger to the environment and safety due to unexploded ordnance. He added that an operation to remove them had started with underwater detection of unexploded ordnance.
Later on, bids will be called to take the ships out of the Danube. “We have established that 23 ships pose risk to river transport and the environment, when the water level is low, when the ships can be seen, transportation is significantly slowed down. In the first phase, underwater detection has to determine their exact location,” Kovacevic said.
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