- CEO
- Hrvoje Livaja
- Full Time Employees
- 396
- Sector
- Transportation
- Industry
- Other transportation
- Address
- Ploce Croatia
- Business
- Luka Ploce d.d. is a Croatia-based maritime logistics, port operations, and infrastructure company primarily engaged in providing sea cargo transshipment, warehousing, and intermodal transport services. Founded in 1945 and headquartered in Ploce, Croatia, the company operates the Port of Ploce, strategically situated on the southern Adriatic coast at the maritime gateway of Pan-European Corridor Vc, serving transit corridors across Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Hungary, and Central Europe. The company organizes its core commercial activities into specialized terminal operations and maritime logistics, offering dry bulk cargo handling and storage for commodities such as coal, iron ore, bauxite, petcoke, and agricultural grains; liquid bulk transshipment and terminal storage for refined petroleum products, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), biofuels, and industrial chemicals; general and breakbulk cargo handling for steel coils, pipes, sawn timber, bagged fertilizers, and oversized project cargo; containerized freight handling, including full container load processing, container stuffing and stripping, storage yard operations, and refrigerated container monitoring; roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) vessel servicing; and comprehensive ancillary maritime support services comprising vessel mooring and unmooring, technical marine services, intermodal rail-and-road transfer management, freight forwarding, customs documentation, industrial equipment leasing, and port maintenance. Luka Ploce d.d. conducts its operations directly and through specialized subsidiaries and joint ventures, including Luka Ploce Usluge d.o.o., Luka Ploce Gradnja d.o.o., Pomorski Servis Luka Ploce d.o.o., and Adriatic Tank Terminal (ATT) d.o.o., an energy logistics joint venture with global terminal operator VTTI. In recent operational developments, the company has undertaken major capital expenditure programs centered on sustainable port transformation and digital logistics modernization, including the installation of extensive rooftop photovoltaic solar power plants across its storage warehouses to power terminal handling systems; the operational commissioning and technology optimization of its deep-sea automated Bulk Cargo Terminal equipped with dust-suppression and high-capacity electrical loaders; the expansion of liquid fuel and chemical storage tanks under the ATT terminal development phases; and the deepening of intermodal rail partnerships to enhance throughput capacity along Corridor Vc amid shifting European supply chain and energy transit routes.