IVAN MILUTINOVIC-PIM is a Serbian leading engineering and construction company for waterways.
The company has had a long and successful history in a broad field of marine and civil engineering in many parts of the world.
The company has operated under the present name since 1952, but the activities of the company began with the first work on the Danube and Sava rivers on Yugoslav teritory in the early 1920's. Several small Yugoslav companies specialized in dredging, construction and salvage, which carried out various kinds of work on these rivers between the two world wars, were merged in 1951 to form a new company named "Dunav". In 1952 the "Dunav" was given a new name IVAN MILUTINOVIC and since then the company has operated under this name as an engineering and construction company in Yugoslavia and all over the world.
During this period IVAN MILUTINOVIC-PIM has undertaken many major projects in Yugoslavia and in several other countries. One of the first successfully completed major projects was the causeway across Lake Skadarsko for the Belgrade-Bar railway line in Yugoslavia (1958). Three years later, in 1961, IVAN MILUTINOVIC-PIM made its first bid on the international civil engineering market contracting the Salt Lakes reclamation project in Calcutta, India.
The activities of IVAN MILUTINOVIC can be clasified into the
following three groups:
- execution of capital investment projects
- Production and distribution of building materials, and
- Specialized services (water transport, under-water work, design and
consulting, engineering services, plant maintenance).
Amongst the projects carried out by IVAN MILUTINOVIC the following
are worth mentioning:
- seaports: paradip and Haldia in India; Shuwaikh port in Kuwait;
Misurata and Benghazi harbour in Libya; Chalna port in Bangladesh; Um
Qasr port in Iraq, Bar port extension in Yugoslavia and Reni port in
Russia.
- shipyards in Chittagong (Bangladesh), Bombay (India), Kuwait, Bijela
and Tivat (ex Yugoslavia) and Um Qasr in Iraq.
- fishing ports: in Tunisia at Sousse, Soukrine, Sayada; in Libya at
Abu Khammash, Marsa Znaga, Zanzur, Khoms, Zrik, Benghazi, Tolmeida and
Ain Gazala; in Kuwait (Sulaibihat) and five fishing jetties in Shuwaikh
port (Kuwait)
IVAN MILUTINOVIC-PIM has carried out many project on inland navigable
waterways such as:
- inland ports on the Danube river at Apatin, Vukovar, Belgrade,
Pancevo, Smederevo, Tekija, Kladovo and an industrial port in Prahovo;
ports on the Sava river at Brcko, Sremska Mitrovica, Sabac, Zabrezje;
ports on the Drava river at Osijek and on the Tisza river at Senta; on the
Danube-Tisza-Danube canal at Novi Sad; the river port Garmat Ali at
Basra (Iraq) and others.
- locks and gates on inland navigation - waterways such as a lock gate
on the Danube-Tisza-Danube canal at Vrbas, a cofferdam and lead-in
jetties for the Becej dam on the Tisza, a cofferdam for the Djerdap
(Iron Gates) dam on the Danube, etc.
- river shipyard in Belgrade and Kladovo
- river training works on the Danube, Sava, Drava, Morava and their
tributaries.
- embankment improvement on the Sava and Danube river in Belgrade and
Novi Sad.
Another traditional activity of IVAN MILUTINOVIC-PIM is dredging and
reclamation and earth works. These are some of the major projects:
- earth moving work for the main canal on the Danube-Tisza-Danube
hydro-system in Yugoslavia
- land reclamation for New Belgrade,
- Salt Lakes reclamation in Calcuta (India),
- dredging and reclamation work for the ports of paradip, Haldia,
Visakapatnam,
Marmugao-Goa and Bombay (India), the port of Shuwaikh (Kuwait),
Misurata port and Benghazi harbour in Libya,
- river dykes along the Sava and Danube rivers in Yugoslavia,
- dredging and maintenace of rivers and navigable waterways in ex
Yugoslavia,
- construction of earth dams and dykes for the disposal of industrial
ashes at Obrenovac and Kostolac
Installation of underwater pipelines is one more activity which IVAN
MILUTINOVIC-PIM carries out successfully. The following are some of the
underwater pipelines installed by the organization;
- underwater oil pipelines: across the Danube at Vukovar; the Sava at Slavonski Brod; Ruscica and Sisak, and the Tisza at Titel,
- underwater pipelines at Belgrade and Pancevo.
IVAN MILUTINOVIC has also undertaken:
- construction of cooling water intakes for thermo-power plants at Homs
(Libya), Novi Sad and Obrenovac (ex Yugoslavia); destilation plant
intake in Kuwait, cooling, water intakes at Dujaila (Iraq);
- water supply projects, such as reniwells at Belgrade, water supply
for Titograd (ex Yugoslavia), water distribution networks in many towns
in ex Yugoslavia and other countries,
- sewerage systems, such as the main sewer in Belgrade, Niksic and
Titograd, water treatment plants at Niksic and Trebinje, sewerage
networks in many places in ex Yugoslavia and abroad,
- roads, railways and bridges, such as the causeway across Lake Skadarsko
for the Belgrade-Bar railway, bridge across Moraca in Titograd,
roads, railways and paving in many ports built by the organization,
- buildings, administration, industrial, ware-house in ex Yugoslavia
and several other countries.
One of permanent activities of IVAN MILUTINOVIC is quarrying,
transport and delivery of stone materials for civil construction,
hydro-projects, roads, railways, chemical and metalurgical plants, both
for its own use and for the market. Annual production of stone
materials has reached 1,5 million cubic meters; Besides the capital
investment projects mentioned above IVAN MILUTINOVIC has developed
several other activities of which the most important are the following:
- water transport of building materials, gravel, sand, quarry stone,
cement etc, including recovery, transport and distribution of these
materials to customers in quantities exceeding 5 million tons annually;
- underwater work, salvage work (about 1000 sunken vessels have been
recovered so far), laying underwater pipes and cables underwater
erection and inspection for many projects in ex Yugoslavia and abroad;
- design and consulting services, including survey and investigation
work and supervision during construction. many projects executed by
IVAN MILUTINOVIC have also been designed by its own design department;
- engineering services, including execution of projects on a "turn key"
basis;
- plant maintenace, land-based and floating, including shipbuilding
activity for its own use and for others;
The activities of IVAN MILUTINOVIC cover all stages of projects, from preliminary investigations, including engineering and economic feasibility studies, master plans, preparation of designs, contract drawings and documents, construction and maintenance on a "turn key" basis in many fields of civil and marine engineering.