The construction of the highway Kuzmin – Sremska Raca is one of the most important projects within the Serbia 2025 program – said the Prime Minister.
– By building highways, we are building a stronger Serbia – said the Prime Minister of Serbia Ana Brnabic, who today visited the works on the section Kuzmin – Sremska Raca with the Minister of Construction Tomislav Momirovic, within the construction of the highway Belgrade – Sarajevo.
She said that the contractor, the Turkish company Tasjapi, promised that the works on the highway Kuzmin – Sremska Raca would be completed by the end of 2022.
She says that the new bridge on the Sava within that highway will be ready by October 2022.
– I came to see how the works are progressing. It is extremely important that in such difficult circumstances in which we live, we continue to build and implement such projects, as well as to continue as a government to have the most efficient implementation of the Serbia 2025 program – Brnabic emphasized.
She points out that she promised the citizens that in 2025, the average salary will be 900 euros, and the pension between 430 and 450 euros.
– The construction of the highway Kuzmin – Sremska Raca is one of the most important projects within the Serbia 2025 program – the Prime Minister stated and added that the project is worth a total of 250 million euros, together with the design, while the execution of works alone is 220 million euros. She says that the second section towards Sarajevo from Pozega to Kotroman will be projected in parallel, which should be finished by the end of 2021, so that construction can start at the beginning of 2023.
– We have ambitious plans and goals, we want to build a Serbia that is much economically stronger and stronger and that citizens can stay and live in Serbia. We are building a stronger Serbia, and this is one of the cubes in that mosaic called stronger Serbia – Brnabic emphasized.
She said that we are living in a difficult time because of Covid 19, but that she is convinced that we will come out even stronger from 2020 and that we will move forward in the coming years.
Brnabic and Momirovic first visited the construction site of the Turkish contractor Tasjapi near Kuzmin, and then visited the works on the construction of a new bridge on the Sava in Sremska Raca.
The total length of the bridge is 1,310 meters.
It consists of access concrete structures on the left and right banks of the Sava, 530 meters and 450 meters long, and a steel structure over the river, 330 meters long.
The construction of the Belgrade-Sarajevo highway is one of the largest infrastructure projects in the entire region, and the total estimated value of that investment is around two billion euros.
Last year, Serbia started the construction of the first section, from Sremska Raca to Kuzmin, in the length of 18 kilometers, and the value of the investment is 220 million euros.
Project documentation is being prepared for the second section, Pozega – Kotroman, in the length of about 60 kilometers, and the value of that part of the highway is about 830 million euros.
Also, Serbia will participate in the construction of the section Raca – Bijeljina on the territory of Republika Srpska, in the length of 17 kilometers, and the estimated value of the works is around 136 million euros, not counting the expropriation and other costs.
The Belgrade-Sarajevo highway will be the first highway between Serbia and some of the countries in the region where we will have common border crossings: in Sremska Raca on the territory of Serbia, and in Kotroman on the territory of BiH, Srbija Danas reports.
