What Plovput does

Plovput is a Serbian government non-profit entity headquartered in Belgrade that manages and maintains inland waterways, ensuring safe and navigable river routes for transport and logistics. The organization operates under the .gov.rs domain, confirming its status as a public-sector body, and has been in continuous operation since its founding in 1963, giving it a six-decade institutional role in Serbian hydrographic and navigational infrastructure.

The entity employs between 51 and 100 staff, consistent with a specialized public infrastructure agency rather than a large commercial operator. Its functional scope — maintaining navigability of inland river corridors — implies responsibility for hydrographic surveys, buoyage, dredging coordination, waterway marking, and the publication of navigational information for commercial and recreational river traffic, particularly along the Danube, Sava, and Tisa river systems. The firm's website (plovput.gov.rs) returned only a generic loading page during data collection, and no specific product, technology stack, or service catalog was disclosed in the available source material.

As a government non-profit, Plovput is funded through public budget allocations rather than commercial revenue. There are no disclosed customers, pricing models, distribution channels, partnerships, certifications, or competitive differentiators in the source data. Its commercial position is structurally protected by statutory mandate, and the absence of any disclosed ownership, parent ministry, or governance hierarchy limits further institutional granularity.

Name

Plovput

Website

https://plovput.gov.rs

Company type

Private

Founded year

1963

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Plovput is a Serbian government non-profit, founded in 1963 and headquartered in Belgrade, that manages and maintains inland waterways to ensure safe, navigable river routes for transport and logistics users in Serbia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Inland Waterway Management

NAICS

Inland Water Transportation (48321), Support Activities for Water Transportation (4883)

SIC

Transportation Services (4700)

akta.pro primary industry

Water Resources Administration (Watersheds, Rivers, Groundwater) (BPAIAMAE)

Keywords

• Inland waterway management
• River navigation services
• Waterway maintenance
• Inland shipping infrastructure
• River transport safety

Headquarters

HQ city

Belgrade

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Core offering

Plovput manages and maintains inland waterways in Serbia, ensuring that river routes remain safe, navigable, and available for transport and logistics operators. The entity functions as the custodian of inland waterway infrastructure, supporting commercial river shipping across Serbia's navigable rivers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Inland Waterway Management and Maintenance

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

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Regional players

• Hungarian Hydrological Forecasting Service / RSOE: Regional actors involved in Hungarian Danube fairway operations and hydrological forecasting. Comparable as national-level bodies managing waterway data and navigation support along the shared Danube corridor with Serbia.
• Danube Commission: International river commission coordinating navigation policy on the Danube, of which Serbia and Plovput are functionally integrated. Comparable as a stakeholder in fairway standards, hydrological data exchange, and Danube-wide navigation governance.
• International Sava River Basin Commission: International body coordinating navigation, environmental protection, and water management on the Sava — the other principal river under Plovput's stewardship. Directly comparable in mandate scope over shared inland waterway assets in the Western Balkans.
• Croatian Waters (Hrvatske vode): Croatian legal entity managing water resources including inland navigable waterways such as the Sava and Drava. Comparable as a neighboring public-sector waterway authority sharing river corridors with Plovput's jurisdiction.

Broad incumbents

• Port of Constanta (Compania Nationala Administratia Porturilor Maritime Constanta): Romanian state-owned operator of the Black Sea port that anchors the lower Danube. Comparable as a regional state-owned maritime/waterway infrastructure operator whose performance is interlinked with upstream fairway quality managed by entities like Plovput.
• Rijkswaterstaat: Dutch national agency within the Ministry of Infrastructure responsible for managing navigable waterways, including the Rhine delta. Most established and well-funded peer in Europe; comparable mandate over major inland navigation corridors.

Direct peers

• Voies Navigables de France (VNF): French state operator managing the navigable inland waterway network. Directly comparable as a government entity responsible for fairway maintenance, modernization, and River Information Services on a national river network.
• Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsverwaltung des Bundes (WSV): German federal waterways and shipping administration responsible for the federal inland waterway network, including the Danube section adjacent to Serbia. Closest functional peer in terms of scope, RIS operations, and EU corridor integration.
• Via Donau (viadonau): Austrian waterway company (subsidiary of the Ministry of Climate Action) responsible for the Austrian Danube and Danube waterway development. Closest comparable peer in terms of Danube-specific mandate, RIS operations, and corridor-focused public-sector model.

Emerging players

• Agenzia Interregionale per il fiume Po (AIPO): Italian interregional agency for the Po river, responsible for navigation, flood management, and waterway maintenance on Italy's principal inland waterway. Comparable as a smaller, regionally scoped public waterway authority.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/plovput
• Facebookfacebook.com/plovput
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/plovput

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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