During World War II , Germans mined and destroyed the port almost completely in 1944 while retreating . Reconstruction started in 1950 , and the construction for a large port started four years later . The first phase was completed in 1965 . The second phase that had in its plan an annual turnover of cca 5 million tons of cargo was almost completed , when the catastrophic earthquake struck in 1979 , destroying more than half of its modern port facilities
earthquake struck in 1979
1979 Montenegro earthquake
Port of Bar