Serbia has more than 67,000 active construction sites, Corridor 10 has been completed, and more than 500 kilometers of renewed railways, Deputy Prime Minister Zorana Mihajlovic said.
Deputy Prime Minister Zorana Mihajlovic sent a letter to employees of the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure (MGSI), in which she thanked them for their joint work, commitment to achieving goals and valuable results achieved in the six years she was at the head of this ministry.
“Today, we have more than 67,000 active construction sites, and Serbia is the 9th in the world out of 190 economies in the field of issuing construction permits. Corridor 10 to Macedonia and Bulgaria, as well as Corridor 11 from Belgrade to Cacak, has been completed. More than 500 kilometers of railway and new projects have been launched, both in road infrastructure (Moravian corridor, Preljina-Pozega highway, Fruska Gora corridor, section Iverak-Valjevo, bypass around Belgrade) and in the field of railways, among which the most important is fast Belgrade-Budapest railway, but also in the field of air and water transport. We have been working continuously to make the construction sector more organized, to simplify procedures and shorten and attract investment,” says Mihajlovic.
Mihajlovic stated in the letter that construction, together with the department of traffic and infrastructure projects in this area, grew from a “dilapidated” picture of only a few hundred construction sites in 2014 into one of the main drivers of GDP in Serbia.
She points out that today Serbia can boast of modern highways, the most successful concession in Europe – the concession of “Nikola Tesla” Airport, “Morava” Airport, which should become the largest cargo airport in the Balkans, a completely new image and development of Nis airport, new investments in the ports on the Sava and Danube, construction of apartments for members of the security forces and numerous other capital investments.
“None of this could have been achieved if we hadn’t worked together, if we hadn’t been a great team. I know it wasn’t easy, it required a lot of energy, patience, will, hard work, but it was the only way to make up for many previous years. That is why I am both proud and happy because I leave this ministry and the construction, transport and infrastructure sector organized, efficient and respected both within our country and internationally, as I am especially proud that together we have restored the reputation of this department. We all did great things together in the Ministry, even those that were unthinkable to many before,” says Mihajlovic, B92 reports.
