Serbia to invest 800 mln euro in Morava Corridor motorway project

"The Serbian government is in talks with two companies and a main contractor will be selected soon," Aleksandar Senic, construction management director of Koridori Srbije, said in a video file posted on the website of news agency Tanjug on Monday. 

The works on the first section of the motorway, a 27.8 km-long stretch linking Pojate to Krusevac, are expected to be completed within two years, Senic added.

In June, Serbia's infrastructure ministry said it discussed the project for the construction for a 110 km-long motorway linking Preljina to Pojate, in central Serbia, known as the Morava Corridor, with representatives of US civil engineering group Bechtel. 

The Morava Corridor will represent a link between European transport Corridors X and XI. Corridor X will connect Salzburg in Austria to the Greek Aegean port of Thessaloniki, passing through Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia. Corridor XI is a ferry/motorway corridor linking Italy's Bari to Romania's Bucharest via Montenegro's Bar port and Serbia's Belgrade.

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