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Around €388 million for construction of tunnels

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The most expensive bridge on the highway priority section, Smokovac-Mateševo, is Moračica bridge and its cost will be around €74,5 million. Preslo bridge will cost €1,3 million, said the representatives of the Ministry of Transport and Maritime Affairs.

According to the data, around €205,3 million has been spent on the construction of 20 bridges and €387,6 million has been earmarked for the construction of 16 tunnels. After Moračica, Jabuka bridge is the most expensive (€29,3 million). It’s followed by Uvac 4 (€18 million), Tara 2 (€14,6 million) and Tara 1 (€8,6 million).

As far as tunnels are concerned, Vjeternik is the most expensive – €66,8 million. Kosman tunnel costs €51, 9 million and Vežešnik tunnel costs €44,7 million. Mala trava costs almost €40 million and Jabučki krš €28,4 million. Vitanovice and Pajkov vir will cost €5,9 million and €7,3 million respectively.

Priority section Smokovac-Uvač-Mateševo costs €809,57 million. Chinese Exim bank has earmarked €688,16 million and the remaining € 121,44 million has been earmarked in the state budget. China Road and Bridge Corporation has been paid almost €570 million so far.

Representatives of the Ministry of Transport and Maritime Affairs say that by the end of summer the emphasis will be put on the open air works which can be influenced by weather conditions.

“Works will entail construction of embankment on all sections, that is, finishing works on embankments parts 1 and 2 and missing parts of the embankment in parts 3 and 4 which are conditioned by weather”, said the representatives of the Ministry.

“In addition, works entail construction of a layer of special granulation as a finishing layer of embankment which serves as the starting point for the construction of road, construction of reinforced earth walls – a special type of supporting constructions consisting of embankments reinforced by special type of nets”, said the representatives of the Ministry.

CRBC will keep working on tunnels, construction of lining and installations which are not conditioned by weather.

MORE THAN A MILLION CUBIC METERS OF CONCRETE

Total quantities of poured in bridges and tunnels exceed a million of cubic meters.

“Around 240.000 of cubic meters of concrete has been used for the construction of bridges”, said the representatives of the Ministry.

Minister of Transport and Maritime affairs, Mr Osman Nurković, said that works were expected to be finished in September next year.

 

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