CONSTRUCTION, TRANSPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURE 2021
NEWS
Serbia Is A Huge
CONSTRUCTION SITE Judging by the funds of the 2021 national budget that have been allocated for construction, transport and infrastructure, investments in capital projects in Serbia will be intensified this year. According to the announcement of Minister Momirović, Serbia will be a huge construction site bustling with machines and workers MORAVIAN CORRIDOR CONSTRUCTION ACCELERATING
TOTAL OF 126.3 BILLION DINARS FOR 49 PROJECTS
Serbia’s national budget for 2021 envisages the allocating of a total of 126.3 billion dinars for 49 projects headed by the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure. Accordingly, 40.5 billion dinars has been envisaged for the project of the Hungarian-Serbian high-speed railway, with 4.5 billion dinars for the construction of the Belgrade-Sarajevo highway and 1.1 billion dinars for construction of the Niš-Pločnik 50
section of the Niš-Merdare Highway. Other planned projects also include the construction of the Preljina-Požega highway section, with 10.5 billion dinars earmarked to fund this project over the coming year, and 15 billion dinars for the Pojate-Preljina section of the highway. A total of 8.5 billion dinars has been envisaged for the construction of the Ruma-ŠabacLoznica link road, as well as 2.6 billion dinars for the construction of the Novi Sad-Ruma expressway and 4.72 billion dinars for the Iverak-Lajkovac expressway. Some 6.3 billion dinars has been earmarked for construction of the section of the Belgrade Bypass that includes a bridge over the Sava near Ostružnica-Bubanj potok, with 1.03 billion dinars planned for the construction of the new bridge spanning the Sava in Belgrade.
Construction of the Moravian Corridor is set to be completed in accordance with the agreed dynamics and goals, thanks to the harmonising of all essential activities. This has been confirmed by Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Tomislav Momirović, who held a working meeting with representatives of Bechtel Enke in mid-March, in an effort to speed up work on this important project. “The Moravian Corridor will be the first digital highway in Serbia, making it one of the most important transport routes. The construction of this road will increase accessibility to municipal centres, economic zones and tourist destinations. This will be a magnificent roadway that will be the pride of future generations. It is being constructed to handle the maximum permitted speed of 130 kilometres per hour. A total of 11 slip roads and 130 other facilities will be built, including 71 bridges, 23 overpasses, five underpasses and 31 culverts,” noted Minister Momirović. SELF-SUSTAINABLE CITY PROJECT TO REPRESENT SERBIA IN SEOUL “Self-Sustainable City”, a project of Belgrade architect Danilo Dangubić, has been selected through a major competition to represent
