- Ensuring coordination during search and rescue operations at sea,

- Monitoring and control of maritime traffic in accordance with the VTMIS procedure,

- Ensuring coordination in cases of emergency response to marine pollution from vessels,

- Transmission of weather and navigational warnings,

- Transmission of weather forecasts and radio notices,

- Providing communication during medical assistance to ships “MEDICO”,

- Updating information on ships movements within “Adriatic Traffic Reporting System”,

- Radio-direction by Radio-direction finder in the VHF maritime area.

Control and Monitoring of Maritime Traffic Service uses state of the art sensors for tracking of ships including: solid state radars, VHF transceivers, meteorological stations, AIS base stations, Radio-direction finder and independent redundant link system. VTMIS sensors are located on Mavrjan, Black Cape (Crni rt) and Obosnik.

Vessel Traffic Service provided is IS (Information Service), and Coastal VTS is established to cover territorial sea area of Montenegro in accordance with the adopted Rulebook and internationally proclaimed VTS procedure.  

Control and Monitoring of Maritime Traffic Service, in order to promote safety of navigation and protection of sea from pollution from vessels, also includes the following activities:

1.          collection of data on maritime objects and maritime traffic,

2.          providing information to maritime objects,

3.          providing navigational advice and support during navigation to maritime objects.

Maritime Operations Center (MOC)

Sensory location Mavrijan, Valdanos Bay

Sensory location Oćas, Komina Peak

Sensory location Obosnik

Contacts – Maritime Operations Center 

VTS (Vessel traffic Services):

Phone: 030 315 386

Fax: 030 313 600

Mobile: +382 67 642 179

VHF CH 11/16/87

E-mail: vts@pomorstvo.me 

MRCC / ORS ‘’BARRADIO’’

Phone: 030 313 088

Fax: 030 313 600

Mobile: +382 67 642 179

VHF CH 12/16/24

Inmarsat C ID 426200016

Maritime Safety Service Emergency Number: 129

E-mail: barradio@pomorstvo.me                       

Maritime Search and Rescue Subdivision

Deputy Director: Žarko Lukšić

Phone: + 382 313 240

Fax: +382 313 247

Mobile: +382 69 666 483

E-mail: zarko.luksic@pomorstvo.me, zarko.luksic@ups.gov.me

Maritime Search and Rescue Subdivision, with its rescue teams and in accordance with the National Plan for Maritime Search and Rescue, organizes and conducts search and rescue operations at sea, emergency response in cases of search and rescue of persons and property and operations of mitigating the effects of pollution from vessels.

The Subdivision service operates with four fast rescue boats for emergency response as well as a catamaran for the support and a command boat within the SAR area which covers the internal sea waters, territorial sea and continental shelf. Also, Search and Rescue operations on the Lake of Skadar are conducted in collaboration with state institutions defined in the National Maritime Search and Rescue Plan.