BELGRADE (Serbia), August 22 (SeeNews) – Serbian infrastructure minister Zorana Mihajlovic has said the Pirot-Dimitrovgrad section of Corridor X will be put into operation in the autumn of 2017, ahead of schedule.
Another project, for the construction of a section of around 50 km of Corridor XI linking Obrenovac to Ljig, will be completed by the end of this year, Mihajlovic said in an interview for Serbian public broadcaster RTS on Monday.
The Obrenovac-Ljig section of Corridor XI has a length of some 103 km.
The construction of the Pirot-Dimitrovgrad section of Corridor X, with a length of 14.3 km, was completed in December by Bulgaria's Trace Group Hold. Back then, the Serbian government said the stretch will be put into operation after the completion of the 8.6 km-long Dimitrovgrad bypass road being built by Greek civil engineering company Aktor.
Corridor X will connect Salzburg in Austria to the Greek port of Thessaloniki, passing through Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia. In Serbia, the project includes the construction of the Belgrade bypass motorway, as well as two separate sections, linking Nis to Levosoje, near the border with Macedonia, to the south, and to the border with Bulgaria to the east.
Corridor XI is a ferry/motorway corridor linking Italy's Bari to Romania's Bucharest via Montenegro's Bar port and Serbia's Belgrade.