Porto montenegro

Young visitors from children’s home “Mladost" were guests of Porto Montenegro

Forty residents and teachers from the ‘Mladost’ children’s home in Bijela paid a visit to Porto Montenegro village and marina earlier in June.

The children spent a fun morning exploring the Pirate Ship Playground before enjoying a lunch hosted by employees from Adriatic Marinas (Porto Montenegro) at the concept store AM / PM.

After a tour of the marina village, the children visited the Naval Heritage Collection where they were greeted by the coordinator of the museum, Drazen Jovanovic. Here they learnt about the history of Tivat and its role as a former Arsenal.

The manager of the orphanage, Mr. Drago Samardzic, met the CEO of Adriatic Marinas, Oliver Corlette, who welcomed the young guests and emphasized how Porto Montenegro would always be willing to help support ‘Mladost’.

At the end of the tour, the children enjoyed refreshments hosted by the popular marina restaurant One.

New donation to the Branko Brinić School

Employees from Adriatic Marinas IT department paid a visit to the ‘Branko Brinic’ Elementary School in Radovici last week, to present the computer department with three Acer laptops.

The director of the school, Sasa Krivacevic, thanked Porto Montenegro for their generous donation and discussed how such contributions confirmed the need for computers in everyday school activities and general education. IT experts from Porto Montenegro also used the visit as an opportunity to share their knowledge on the subject including the use of a new Windows programme. The IT class was attended by Predrag Milutinovic, Milos Vujković, Davor Majer, Milovan  Jovanovic, Vladimir Mihojević, and Milinko Međedović.

This particular project also included the donation of a laptop to the NGO Kids of Tivat. Both donations amounted to 1,500 euros, highlighting Porto Montenegro’s ongoing support of institutions and organizations in Tivat that primarily focus on children and education.

Action to clean up the seabed and coastline

Adriatic Marinas in Porto Montenegro has joined in with efforts to clean up the Tivat coastline and seabed to mark the occasion of Earth week. This has been organized by the local Secretariat, the department responsible for spatial planning and environmental protection in cooperation with the Green team and local sailing, diving and fishing societies. Earth week was held on April 27th 2013. All participants of this ecological action cleaned the following coastlines: Verige to Opatovo, Hotel Camellia to Ponte Seljanovo, Hotel Mimoza to Hotel Palma and on to Marina Kalimanj. The event was supported by Adriatic Marinas and its dedicated employees, who not only participated in the cleaning, but also helped helped with financial support for the clean-up. With this eco-project already underway, Porto Montenegro continues to support the environmental initiatives of the Municipality of Tivat and the Green team, sharing their desire to preserve the environment in which we all work and live.

New donation for local Basketball club

Porto Montenegro has been inspired by the continuing success of local basketball club, Teodo, and will continue to support young basketball players from Tivat with a donation of 2.000 euros.

Now in its eighth season, basketball players have shown remarkable results in the Balkan League ─ a competition between seven states and two continents ─ where they have been awarded a commendable sixth place. Teodo have also come third in the Super League and are among the four best teams in the Montenegro Cup.

 As Tivat’s most revered sporting team, Teodo hosted the finals of the Montenegro Cup in 2012, an opportunity to really highlight Tivat’s basketball influence. 

Head of the club is Misko Lucic who has emphasised that the funds donated from Porto Montenegro will be allocated to the youth department, the Teodo school, and the organisation of the Tivat 2013 Basketball Camp where the most talented basketball players can be selected for the upcoming season.

Support for the Dolphin Sailing club

Adriatic Marinas of Porto Montenegro continues its support of the Dolphin Sailing Club based in Tivat. Through sponsorship of EUR 5,000, it encourages young sailors to strive for success on the domestic and international sports scene.

One young member of SC Delfin is Igor Les who has achieved excellent sailing results. He currently ranks first place with the Sailing Association of Montenegro, and this is the first year that Igor sails in the Laser Standard class. To date, he has participated in this group for two major regattas in Croatia. He was placed fifth in the Sailor Race in Split and fifteenth in the Split Olympic Sailing Week ─ an outstanding result.

Igor is currently in Palma de Mallorca taking part in the Sailing World Cup, after which he will travel to Hyeres in France for another regatta organised by the Sailing World Cup. He will take part in many forthcoming competitions this year including the ISAF World Cup HRH Princes (Spain), EUROSAF-Riva del Garda (Italy), EUROSAF Delta Lloyd (Netherlands), EUROSAF Sail for Gold (UK EUROSAF – Kieler Woche (Germany), Laser World Championship (Oman), and the ISAF World Cup Sail Melbourne (Australia).

Adriatic Marinas is dedicated in helping young sailors such as Igor and other talented members of the JK Dolphins. It continues to recognise and support the needs of sports talent in Tivat, and to help ensure they have many more future success stories.

PM brightens up Bambi Kindergarten

In line with our continued support for the local community Porto Montenegro recently donated EUR 1,200 to Bambi kindergarten. The donation was used to purchase new carpets, curtains and puzzle-shaped lino to create a more colourful and inspiring environment for the children.

The project came about following a meeting with the Parent Council of Tivat who wanted to help turn what was a rather dated environment, into a bright and vibrant space where local children could enjoy their pre-school education.

Ivana Soldat, the Bambi council representative was delighted with the outcome of the renovations, “Thanks to Porto Montenegro for being so open minded regarding ideas for improving our local kindergarten, and their desire to improve the quality of life in Tivat.”

PM continues its support of young tennis talent

Our tennis club at Porto Montenegro, part of the PM Sports Club, continues to support its most successful members – primarily young tennis talent from Tivat.

This year, Adriatic Marinas will support Tamara Bojanic, an extremely talented player, with a sponsorship award of EUR 4,500.

Tamara has achieved remarkable results on the European circuit. In 2012, she won the title of Individual State Champion, achieving high scores in a number of international tournaments. Tamara is also ranked at 35th position on the European (ETA) ranking list, in the Under 14 category for girls.

The tennis club at Porto Montenegro has been founded by Adriatic Marinas, and is a part of the Tennis Federation of Montenegro. Depending on the weather and season, there are currently 20-30 members of various ages and abilities. Over the forthcoming year, the courts near the Dom Vojske will train many talented children. Amateur tennis players and guests of Porto Montenegro marina and village also visit the tennis club.