August 1 (SeeNews) - Serbia and Montenegro Air Traffic Services (SMATSA) has said it plans to start building a new control tower at Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport in the autumn of 2018.
The technical documentation for the project will be ready by June 2018, while construction works will be completed in 2019, SMATSA director Radojica Rovcanin said in a statement last week.
The control tower, designed by Energoprojekt Industrija, a subsidiary of Serbian blue-chip civil engineering group Energoprojekt [BEL:ENHL], will be 75 metres high and will be among the 10 highest ones globally, SMATSA said.
SMATSA will finance the construction from its own funds, it added
In December 2015, SMATSA said it planned to invest 15 million euro ($17.7 million) in the construction of the new control tower.
SMATSA was established jointly by Serbia and Montenegro in 2003. Its line of business comprises air navigation services, air traffic control training, flight training, flight inspection of ground based radio navigation aids, and aircraft maintenance services.