Editing Vukovar (section)

==Economy==
[[Port of Vukovar]] is situated on {{convert|1335|km|abbr=off}} of the downstream flow of Danube river, on its right coast, and is the biggest official concessioner in the Vukovar region. The Company focuses its business on the transshipment of general and bulk cargo. The Port (850m long and 45m wide) is conveniently situated on the main current of the river, enabling navigation throughout the whole year regardless of water level.
The Port recorded productivity growth and increase in cargo transshipment from 123,570 tons in 2009 to 295,199 tons in 2011. The majority of transshipment was in the category of bulk cargo (237,119 tons in 2011), while packaged goods and heavy cargo accounted for a total of 58,080 tons.

The economy of Vukovar is based on agriculture, trade, [[viticulture]], [[food industry]], [[textile industry]], building materials industry, footwear industry and tourism. Vukovar is the largest Croatian town and river port on the [[Danube]]. Its economy is based on trade, farming, [[viticulture]], livestock breeding, textiles, the food-processing industry, the footwear industry and tourism.
[[File:Startasice.jpg|thumb|right|[[Startas]] sport shoes, the [[flagship product|flagship]] brand of the [[Borovo (company)|Borovo shoe manufacturer.]] former member of the famous [[Bata Corporation|Group Bata]], the world first shoe producer. Brand Startas was born in 1976 thanks to the new techniques of rubber [[vulcanization]] invented in the 70s. Historically designed for Table tennis players.]]

However, the port infrastructure in Vukovar, only partly reconstructed, still does not meet the requirements of the market. The layout of the port area, particularly the access to railway tracks and the quay operational area, are technologically inappropriate and not compatible with market standards. There is also a lack of warehouse capacity. Altogether, it affects the quality of the service provided in the Port and thus decreases the port competitiveness.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.aik-invest.hr/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PortVukovarEN.pdf |access-date=2023-11-30 | title=Port of Vukovar, Vukovar}}</ref>
[[File:Danube port of Vukovar, Croatia (by de.user.Perun).jpg|thumb|left|[[Port of Vukovar]] is Croatia's biggest river port.]]

Borovo, a manufacturer of footwear located in Vukovar, ended up devastated and demolished in 1991 during the war.  In its prime it employed 24,000 employees and tried to break into foreign markets with innovations in the manufacture of footwear, but today there are fewer than 1000 employees.

On 7 June 1931, Borovo was founded by [[Czechs|Czech]] industrialist [[Tomáš Baťa]]. Borovo Factory was one of the few Bata Shoes factories in the world. In 1933, the production of rubber and technical goods started, and Bata in the gum industry became one of the first companies in the then Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Between 1947 and the end of the 1980s, Borovo grew into the largest and most economically most powerful company in the production and sale of footwear and rubber in this part of Europe. Borovo Factory produced more than 20 million pair of [[shoes]] a year, thousands of tons of auto-rubber and rubber-technical goods, 22,000 people were employed at today's factories with more than 600 stores across the country. This time was marked by the significant export to European and other countries.

The Business Innovation Centre BIC-Vukovar is a rounded concept for the support of innovative, technologically oriented entrepreneurship independent of the size or maturity of the company. The goal of this centre is to attract or provide incentives for the creation and growth of technologically oriented companies in all phases of their life-cycle and provide them with a complete package of services to support their businesses, from workspaces, support for innovations, growth and export, as well as various intellectual and administrative services.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bic-vukovar.hr/web/bic/index.php/en/2016-01-25-15-51-54/o-projektu|title=About project|website=bic-vukovar.hr|access-date=3 April 2018}}</ref>

Since the end of the war, much of the infrastructure in Vukovar has remained unrestored and unemployment is estimated to stand at 40 percent.<ref name="Vukovar still divided 15 years on"/> Vukovar is underdeveloped municipality which is statistically classified as the [[Areas of Special State Concern (Croatia)|First Category Area of Special State Concern]] by the [[Government of Croatia]].<ref name="ASSC-Hrčak-Lovrinčević">{{cite journal|url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?id_clanak_jezik=24709&show=clanak|last1=Lovrinčević |first1=Željko |last2=Davor |first2=Mikulić |last3=Budak |first3=Jelena |publisher=Ekonomski pregled, Vol.55 No.5-6 |title=AREAS OF SPECIAL STATE CONCERN IN CROATIA- REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT DIFFERENCES AND THE DEMOGRAPHIC AND EDUCATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS |journal=Ekonomski Pregled |volume=55 |issue=5–6 |pages=389–411 |date=June 2004 |access-date=25 August 2018 }}</ref>