The 17.5 kilometer long section of the North-South European transport corridor, the so-called Corridor 5C in Croatia, between Pélmonostor (Beli Manastir) and Dráva Bridge (Eszék) will be handed over in October, and the remaining part, which stretches to the Hungarian border, will be completed in 2024. will be completed in - Minister of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure Oleg Butkovic announced on Monday.
After his visit to the construction site, the head of the ministry told the press that the works are progressing very well, and that the tender for the construction of the five-kilometer long section stretching from the Pélmonostor to the Hungarian border will soon be announced, the value of which is estimated at 300 million kunas (16 billion forints).
"We expect that the 88-kilometer Croatian section of Corridor 5C will be completely built in 2024," Butkovic emphasized.
He said that the construction of the highway section starting from Budapest and going through Sarajevo to Ploce will have a positive effect on the economy, so he expects that the work will speed up in Bosnia-Herzegovina as well.
The bridge completed at the Croatian-Bosnian Svilaj border crossing was handed over last September.
Of the total 320 kilometers that stretch along the Bosnian section of the Pan-European Corridor, 114.5 kilometers of highway sections have been completed so far: between Svilaj-Odzak in the north, Zenica-Sarajevo-Tarcin in the middle, and Medugorje-Bijac in the south.
Elmedin Voloder, the director of the highway management company of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, recently told the Bosnian daily Dnevni Avaz: the entire northern section of the 5C corridor through Bosnia, from the Croatian border to Sarajevo, will be completed by the end of 2025.
(Source: autokalauz.co.hu; MTI | Image: pixabay.com)