August 13 (SeeNews) - Serbia's government expects that local company Srbijaautoput will complete the project for the rehabilitation of the Velika Plana-Smederevska Palanka road in November, infrastructure minister Zorana Mihajlovic has said.
The road has an important role in linking the country's transport network to European transport Corridor X and its rehabilitation needs to be completed by November, Mihajlovic said in a press release issued by the infrastructure ministry on Monday.
The Serbian government is investing about 447 million dinars ($4.3 million/3.8 million euro) in the Velika Plana-Smederevska Palanka road rehabilitation project, the infrastructure ministry said.
With the support of the World Bank, Serbia is investing about 2 billion dinars in the rehabilitation of the road network in the Podunavlje District, where both Velika Plana and Smederevska Palanka are located, Mihajlovic said during an on-site inspection of the works.
Corridor X will connect Salzburg in Austria to the Greek port of Thessaloniki, passing through Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and North 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.
(1 euro = 117.781 dinars)