April 2 (SeeNews) - Serbia's president Aleksandar Vucic said the government plans to complete the construction of the Obrenovac-Cacak section of pan-European Transport Corridor XI by the end of 2018.
A motorway section linking Obrenovac to Surcin will be completed in 2019 and in this way, a 104 km motorway linking Belgrade to Cacak, in central Serbia, will be launched by the end of 2019, Vucic said, as quoted in a statement by the government on Friday.
Vucic, together with infrastructure minister Zorana Mihajlovic, took part in the official ceremony for the completion of the perforation works of the Brancic tunnel, near Ljig, which is part of the project.
The road represents a section of a planned motorway connecting Belgrade to Montenegro's Bar port. Last week, the Serbian government said it plans to invest 1.5 billion euro ($1.8 billion) in the construction of a section linking the town of Boljare, on the Montenegrin border, to Pozega, central Serbia.
A $523 million loan agreement to finance the construction of a 30.9 km-long motorway section, between Preljina and Pozega will be signed in the coming months, Mihajlovic said last week.
Pan-European Corridor XI is a planned ferry/motorway corridor linking Italy's Bari to Romania's Bucharest via Montenegro's Bar port and Serbia's Belgrade.
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