July 22 (SeeNews) - Greek civil engineering company Aktor has caused a significant delay to the opening of the entire eastern section of pan-European Corridor X in Serbia linking Nis to the border with Bulgaria, Serbia's infrastructure minister Zorana Mihajlovic has said.
"We have problems on Lot 2 where Greece's Aktor works but we are solving them... Be sure that we will notify all international financial organisations about what we have all gone through with this Greek company," Mihajlovic said in a press release issued by the infrastructure ministry on Sunday.
Aktor is the contractor of Bancarevo-Crvena Reka stretch, the last one of the section. The company was also in charge of the Prosek-Crvena Reka, Crvena Reka-Ciflik, Stanicenje-Pirot sections and Dimitrovgrad bypass of the Nis-Dimitrovgrad motorway, part of pan-European Corridor X, which were opened behind schedule.
During a visit to the construction site last month, Mihajlovic expressed hope that the project will be completed this summer.
"This is all for us to learn for future projects. We are launching the construction of five new motorways, worth billions of euro and we want them to be realised by the best companies," Mihajlovic said.
In May, Serbia completed the construction of the entire southern section of the motorway of European transport Corridor X on its territory to the border of North Macedonia.
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 Belgrade bypass motorway, as well as two separate sections, linking Nis to Levosoje, near the border with North Macedonia, to the south, and to the border with Bulgaria to the east.