Izvor: N1 televizija, 15.Okt.2018, 20:41 (ažurirano 02.Apr.2020.)
Washington and Belgrade to build road in central Serbia
Serbia’s Construction Minister Zorana Mihajlovic and a vice-president of the US Bechtel corporation Shaun Kenny signed on Monday a memorandum of understanding for constructing a road in Serbia, “Morava Corridor,” connecting Trans-European transport Corridors X and XI, the Beta news agency reported.
The road will be 110 kilometres long, and the investment will be up to 800 million Euros.
It will connect a half a million people in Serbia and 25 companies, Mihalovic >> Pročitaj celu vest na sajtu N1 televizija << said.
Kenny said the construction would last two and a half years, adding he expected “the project to be successful.”
The US envoy to Serbia, Kyle Scott, who witnessed the signing ceremony, said that 140 years had passed since the first trade agreement regulating Serbia's dried plums export his country.
Last month, he added, the two countries signed the Memorandum on understanding in the area of infrastructure, and now the first results showed.
Corridor X will run from Salzburg to Thessaloniki, passing through Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia.
Corridor XI is a ferry and motorway passage linking Bari to Bucharest, stretching through Montenegro's port Bar and Serbia's capital Belgrade.
Bechtel Corporation, with the headquarter in San Francisco, is an engineering, procurement, and project management company, and the largest construction company in the US.
Last year, it was listed the 8th-largest privately owned US company.
