Yugoslavian line shipping company
Naziv
Yugoslavian line shipping company
Klasifikacija prema pojavnosti
Klasifikacija prema RKD
Klasifikacija u Bazi pomorske baštine
Država
Valorizacija
najvažniji teretni prijevoznik u bivšoj Jugolaviji
Opis
After the nationalization of shipping companies in December 1946, the Government of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia established four large shipping companies on 20 January 1947: Jugoslavenska slobodna plovidba Sušak (Yugoslav Free Shipping Sušak), Jugoslavenska linijska plovidba (Yugoslav Liner Shipping), Jadranska slobodna plovidba Sušak (Adriatic Free Shipping Sušak) and Jadranska linijska plovidba Sušak (Yugoslav Liner Shipping Sušak). During 1948, the Shipping Company Rijeka was founded, and in 1949, Yugoslav Free Shipping became part of the Yugoslav Liner Shipping. Some of the first Jugolinija ships after its establishment were: LIVNO, LOŠINJ, LJUBLJANA, NERETVA, PLITVICE, PODGORA, PRENJ, PROZOR, PULJ, SPLIT, SUTJESKA, ŠIBENIK, ŠOLTA, TARA, UŽICE and ŽUŽEMBERK. The first decade after the Second World War, in the new Yugoslavia, was the period of the first so-called five-year economic development plans. Seafaring had to adjust to that. The beginnings were extremely difficult. At the end of 1946, the entire fleet of the new Yugoslavia consisted of 28 ocean-going and large coastal ships with 120,223 GRT and 33 coastal passenger ships with 7688 GRT. The shipping company Jugolinija had less than 20 ships until the early 1950s. In the late fifties and during the sixties, Jugolinija completely switched to the procurement of engine-driven ships. Steamers were no longer used. During the seventies and eighties, Jugolinija's business expanded, so that it became the most important liner in Yugoslavia, because its ships sailed on almost all seas of the world. After the independence of the Republic of Croatia, in 1992 the shipping company Jugolinija changed its name to Croatia Line. Unfortunately, the last new ship, Croatia Express, built in 1993, also meant the beginning of the fall of the Rijeka shipping company, which completely ceased to exist at the beginning of the 21st century.
