Croatia
General Information for Croatia
Geo-political:
Capital City: Zagreb.
Nationality: (noun) Croat, (adjective) Croatian.
Population: 4,489,409.
Communications:
International Direct Dial Code: 385.
Number of Internal Airports: 23.
Major Languages Spoken: Croatian 96.1%, Serbian 1%, other and undesignated 2.9% (including Italian, Hungarian,
Czech, Slovak, and German) (2001 census).
Economy:
Currency: 1 Croatian Kuna (HRK) of 100 Lipas.
Main Industries: Chemicals and plastics, machine tools, fabricated metal, electronics, pig iron and
rolled steel products, aluminium, paper, wood products, construction materials, textiles,
shipbuilding, petroleum and petroleum refining, food and beverages and tourism.
Environment:
Territorial Sea: 12 n.m.
Other Maritime Claims: Continental Shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation.
Coastline Extent: 5,835 km.
Climate: Mediterranean and continental; continental climate predominant with hot summers and
cold winters; mild winters, dry summers along coast.
Natural Resources: Oil, some coal, bauxite, low-grade iron ore, calcium, gypsum, natural asphalt, silica,
mica, clays, salt and hydropower.
Natural Hazards: Destructive earthquakes.
Terrain: Geographically diverse; flat plains along Hungarian border, low mountains and highlands
near Adriatic coastline and islands.
CHARTS:
National charts and nautical publications available from the Hydrographic Institute
of the Republic of Croatia.
DOCUMENTS:
Copies of Bunker Convention/Insurance for Bunker Pollution, International Anti-Fouling
System Certificate and Wreck Removal Insurance/Financial Security should be submitted
with the Notice of Arrival forms.
Also see
Pre-Arrival Information
PRE-ARRIVAL INFORMATION:
Notice of Arrival forms, including Notice of Arrival, IMDG Reporting Form, Ballast
Water Reporting Form, Notification of Ship-Generated Waste, ISPS Code Arrival Notification,
Dangerous Goods Manifest and Notice of Arrival for Mandatory Expanded Inspection,
shall be sent to the Harbour Master 48 hours prior to arrival in any Croatian port.
Forms available from Ministry of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure at
www.mppi.hr/default.aspx?id=603 (documents section on the nIS - nautical information service page).
Forms can be submitted via the Croatian Integrated Maritime Information System (cimis),
available to registered users at
cimis.pomorstvo.hr
River Information System:
All European inland navigation countries are working on the development of an integrated
shipping guidance and monitoring system. The main objective of the RIS is to improve
safety, efficiency and environmental friendliness of inland navigation by means of
harmonised, interoperable and freely accessible aids and information systems for the
interior waterways.
Inland ECDIS:
Making available reliable and up-to-date electronic charts which meet European standards.
ECDIS contributes to the safety and efficiency of inland navigation and therefore
the protection of the environment. Moreover it reduces the work load of the skipper
compared to traditional navigation and information methods.
Electronic Ships Reports:
Vessel traffic services in Europe are linked to information gathering via various
systems. To relieve the fairway-user as much as possible, a system of an electronic
once-only report is being worked on. The skipper can then use one type of report that
is valid for the whole of Europe.
Notices to Skippers:
To enable an automatic translation of the most important contents of messages in all
languages of the participating countries, with a harmonised structure of data to enable
integration of messages in the voyage planning systems. Also a standard for height
of tide information will be made available. This information will be made available
to the inland barge community, among other things by use of web applications.
Tracking/Tracing:
Tracking and tracing will form the basis for both Vessel Traffic Services and future
RIS-services.
Details of national systems can be found at the following websites:
| Country | Website | |
|---|---|---|
| Austria | nts.doris.bmvit.gv.at | |
| Belgium | nts.flaris.be | |
| voies-hydrauliques.wallonie.be | ||
| www.vts-scheldt.net | ||
| Bulgaria | www.bulris.bg | |
| Croatia | vodniputovi.hr | |
| Czech Republic | www.lavdis.cz | |
| France | www.vnf.fr | |
| Germany | www.elwis.de | |
| Hungary | www.pannonris.hu | |
| Netherlands | www.vaarweginformatie.nl | |
| Poland | www.rzgw.szczecin.pl | |
| Romania | www.roris.ro | |
| Serbia | nts.risserbia.rs | |
| Slovakia | nts.slovris.sk | |
| Switzerland | www.port-of-switzerland.ch | |
| www.elwis.de |
POLLUTION:
Notification should be made to the nearest Harbours Master's office as the Spill Notification
Point.
Dubrovnik. T: +358 (20) 418989. F: +358 (20) 418987.
Ploce. T: +358 (20) 679008. F: +358 (20) 679008.
Pula. T: +358 (52) 222867. F: +358 (52) 222037.
Rijeka. T: +358 (51) 214031. F: +358 (52) 211660.
Senj. T: +358 (51) 881301. F: +358 (51) 881301.
Sibenik. T: +358 (22) 217214.
Split. T: +358 (21) 355488. F: +358 (21) 361298.
Zadar. T: +358 (23) 254888. F: +358 (23) 254880.
REGULATIONS:
EU MRV:
The EU MRV (Monitoring, Reporting, Verification) regulation entered into force on
1 July 2015, and it requires ship owners and operators to annually monitor, report
and verify CO
2 emissions for vessels larger than 5,000 g.t. calling at any EU and EFTA (Norway and
Iceland) port. Data collection takes place on a per voyage basis and started 1 January
2018.
The reported CO
2 emissions, together with additional data, are to be verified by independent certified
bodies and sent to a central database managed by the European Maritime Safety Agency
(EMSA). The aggregated ship emission and efficiency data will be published by the
EC by 30 June 2019 and then every consecutive year.
Ship owners and operators shall monitor the CO
2 emissions of their vessels per voyage conducted into, between and out of EU (and
EFTA) ports. A voyage is defined as any movement of a ship that originates from, or
terminates in, a port of call (EU port) and that serves the purpose of transporting
passengers or cargo for commercial purposes.
TIME:
GMT plus 1 hour. Summertime is GMT plus 2 hours.
HOLIDAYS:
1 January (New Year's Day); 6 January (Epiphany); Easter Sunday; Easter Monday; 1 May
(Labour Day); 60 days post Easter (Corpus Christi); 22 June (Anti-fascist Struggle
Day); 25 June (Statehood Day); 5 August (Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day); 15
August (Assumption of Mary) 8 October (Independence Day); 1 November (All Saint's
Day); 25 December (Christmas Day); 26 December (Saint Stephen Day).
Variable Holidays:
Easter Sunday and Monday and Corpus Christi.
