Nemanja Netković, Agent Plus Group - We remain consistent with quality without compromise

- Our industry, by its very nature, is innovative and implies frequent changes and improvements. To be competitive, it is necessary to establish your business dynamics in this way with constant "fine tuning". Based on your question, we can be satisfied because we have achieved everything you state. Certainly, the most significant achievement for us this year is the continuity of development from previous years, which we have continued this year as well, primarily through investments in new ship capacities. This year we invested in our new convoy, with a total capacity of over 4000 mt for bulk cargo, which is one of our core businesses. In this way, we reached a total of 30,000 t of cargo capacity on the Danube, which ranks us as one of the absolute leaders on the domestic and regional market. We are sure that our new convoy - Arion will meet all expectations.

- The current recession, which Serbia is currently in, has not bypassed the container transport market either. The evident drop in demand at the global level caused enormously high prices to drop to levels we remember from before the Covid crisis. We believe that there will be no major changes throughout the year, and that a significant recovery will follow only next year. Last year, most shippers on the Danube managed to take advantage of the changed circumstances on the market caused by the war conflicts in Ukraine and the significant increase in grain prices on the world market, which also caused an increase in freight rates. Proper use of the additional profits was mostly used to expand capacity, as well as to rehabilitate the fleet itself, which in previous years, due to low prices and profit rates, could not be realized in the right way. In general, the biggest challenges in river transport are always related to the lack of adequate investments in infrastructure.