Serbian infrastructure minister Zorana Mihajlovic said on Friday that China Communication Construction Company (CCCC) will complete the construction of the Surcin-Obrenovac section of pan-European Transport Corridor XI by November 2019.
The Sebian government has already prepared the project documentation and the construction will start on March 1 in the area of Obrenovac – Surcin bridge on the Sava river, Mihajlovic said in a statement.
Serbia signed a $233.69 million (219.4 million euro) agreement with China on the design and construction of Surcin-Obrenovac section of Corridor XI in June. The agreement was signed by Serbia’s economy minister and the director of CCCC during an official visit of China’s president Xi Jinping to Belgrade.
In November, Serbia signed several commercial and financing deals with China worth a combined 734 million euro for infrastructure works on the sidelines of the Riga summit of the heads of the Chinese government and 16 central and eastern European (CEE) countries, or the 16+1 format.
Out of the total agreed financing, 208 million euro will be used for the construction of the Surcin-Obrenovac section, the infrastructure ministry said back then.
The Surcin-Obrenovac section will have a length of 17.6 km. The project involves the construction of a new 1.8 km-long bridge on the Sava river.
Corridor XI runs through Serbia from the northeastern border with Romania to the southwestern border with Montenegro.
