Editing Transport in Serbia (section)

==Water transport==

[[File:Port of Belgrade and Belgrade Fortress.jpg|left|thumb|Port of Belgrade]]
[[Serbia]] has a fairly developed inland water transport which carried over 2 million tons of cargo in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.stat.gov.rs/WebSite/repository/documents/00/02/52/68/SV10_176-srb_2016.pdf |title=Укупан превоз путника и робе, 2015. и 2016 | language=sr | trans-title=Total transportation of passengers and goods, 2015 and 2016 |access-date=21 July 2017 |archive-date=2 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802050905/http://www.stat.gov.rs/WebSite/repository/documents/00/02/52/68/SV10_176-srb_2016.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> There are 1,716 kilometers of navigable [[inland waterways]] (1,043&nbsp;km of navigable rivers and 673&nbsp;km of navigable canals), which are almost all located in northern third of the country. The most important inland waterway is the [[Danube]], that is part of Pan-European Corridor VII. Other navigable rivers in Serbia include [[Sava]], [[Tisza]], [[Bega River (Tisza)|Begej]] and [[Timiş River]], all of which connect Serbia with Northern and Western Europe through the [[Rhine–Main–Danube Canal]] and [[North Sea]] route. To Eastern Europe Serbia is connected via the [[Bega River (Tisza)|Begej]] and [[Danube]] via Black Sea route, and to Southern Europe via the [[Sava]] river.

Important ports on [[Danube]] river are: [[Port of Novi Sad]] (1.18 million tons of cargo tonnage in 2016) and [[Port of Belgrade]] are the largest, while other river ports on the same river include: [[Pančevo]], [[Smederevo]], [[Prahovo]], [[Apatin]] and [[Bačka Palanka]]. On [[Sava]] river, [[Šabac]] Port is the most significant and on [[Bega River (Tisza)|Begej]] river that is [[Senta]] Port.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.mojnovisad.com/vesti/luka-novi-sad-u-2016.-godini-ostvaren-rekordan-pretovar-robe-id13617.html | title=LUKA "NOVI SAD": U 2016. Godini ostvaren rekordan pretovar robe}}</ref>

Merchant river fleet include 149 ships: 146 [[cargo]] vessels (with total capacity of 173 thousand tons) and 3 [[passenger ship]]s.<ref name="pod2.stat.gov.rs"/>