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The Post-war Economy in Koper: Development Plans for the Port Industrial Activities ...
Land Management Fund, which should take the initiative so that labour
organizations would have a concrete interest in building industrial plants
in the area. In doing so, they referred to the adopted urban programme
of the Slovenian coast, which provided for the possibility of erecting larg-
er industrial facilities in this area. Plans to build heavy industry facili-
ties were given new impetus. In addition to the already prepared stud-
ies, in 1972, the working organizations Interexport Beograd, Krka Novo
Mesto, Sava Kranj, Metalka Ljubljana, and Luka Koper, with the help of a
foreign partner, commissioned the Industrial Planning and engineering
company from Davos for a new study for the construction of a refinery in
Koper. The working organizations Adriacommerce Koper, Agraria Koper,
Interevropa Koper, Iplas Koper, Interexport Belgrade, Kreditna Banka
Koper, Krka Novo Mesto, Splošna plovba Piran, and Tomos Koper decid-
ed to establish a new company called ’Sermin Koper’ with joint funds.
The focus of the business was: design; construction of municipal infra-
structure facilities; construction of industrial processing capacities; and
production, purchase, processing, sale and transport of gas, oil and their
derivatives. In agreement with the Municipal Assembly of Koper and
the Land Management Fund of the Municipality of Koper, the company
Sermin Koper was expected to take over the management and arrange-
ment of a land complex with a total area of a round 260 ha in the Škocjan
Bay, where a residential and business complex and a municipal industri-
al zone were planned. The complex was supposed to be located almost en-
tirely in a depression, i.e. 2/3 under the seawater level, which was unusa-
ble for construction purposes at the time. It was planned to arrange the
land, prepare urban and technical documentation, and regulate the en-
tire area to the required height by arranging the reclamation regime (ma-
terial would be obtained by deepening port basins) and planned stage
construction.34
From industrial to energy-economic zone:
economic and social changes on the threshold of the 1990s
The 1970s marked a period of major investment projects and large foreign
borrowing for Yugoslavia during the sharp rise in the international price
of crude oil (the oil shock following the Israeli-Egyptian war in the au-
34 PAK, 728, Danilo Petrinja, t. e. 14.22, ‘Sermin Koper, Podjetje v ustanvaljanju, Os-
nove za program za izgradnjo komunalnih in infrastrukturnih objektov in indus-
trijskih kapacite’, dated Koper, July 1972.
145
Land Management Fund, which should take the initiative so that labour
organizations would have a concrete interest in building industrial plants
in the area. In doing so, they referred to the adopted urban programme
of the Slovenian coast, which provided for the possibility of erecting larg-
er industrial facilities in this area. Plans to build heavy industry facili-
ties were given new impetus. In addition to the already prepared stud-
ies, in 1972, the working organizations Interexport Beograd, Krka Novo
Mesto, Sava Kranj, Metalka Ljubljana, and Luka Koper, with the help of a
foreign partner, commissioned the Industrial Planning and engineering
company from Davos for a new study for the construction of a refinery in
Koper. The working organizations Adriacommerce Koper, Agraria Koper,
Interevropa Koper, Iplas Koper, Interexport Belgrade, Kreditna Banka
Koper, Krka Novo Mesto, Splošna plovba Piran, and Tomos Koper decid-
ed to establish a new company called ’Sermin Koper’ with joint funds.
The focus of the business was: design; construction of municipal infra-
structure facilities; construction of industrial processing capacities; and
production, purchase, processing, sale and transport of gas, oil and their
derivatives. In agreement with the Municipal Assembly of Koper and
the Land Management Fund of the Municipality of Koper, the company
Sermin Koper was expected to take over the management and arrange-
ment of a land complex with a total area of a round 260 ha in the Škocjan
Bay, where a residential and business complex and a municipal industri-
al zone were planned. The complex was supposed to be located almost en-
tirely in a depression, i.e. 2/3 under the seawater level, which was unusa-
ble for construction purposes at the time. It was planned to arrange the
land, prepare urban and technical documentation, and regulate the en-
tire area to the required height by arranging the reclamation regime (ma-
terial would be obtained by deepening port basins) and planned stage
construction.34
From industrial to energy-economic zone:
economic and social changes on the threshold of the 1990s
The 1970s marked a period of major investment projects and large foreign
borrowing for Yugoslavia during the sharp rise in the international price
of crude oil (the oil shock following the Israeli-Egyptian war in the au-
34 PAK, 728, Danilo Petrinja, t. e. 14.22, ‘Sermin Koper, Podjetje v ustanvaljanju, Os-
nove za program za izgradnjo komunalnih in infrastrukturnih objektov in indus-
trijskih kapacite’, dated Koper, July 1972.
145
