Post by radovic on Feb 4, 2008 20:08:08 GMT -5
Plan for highway in East Serbia
Author: R. Ž. Marković | 04.02.2008 - 06:00
Apart from Corridor 10 which should connect the north and south of Serbia, our country could get another important highway that would be a part of the biggest European (southern) corridor connecting Portugal and the Black Sea. This is the East Corridor that would make Serbia a crossroad of two important European corridors connecting the north with the South of Europe, as well as the West with the East.
’Feasibility study is under preparation and we are trying to have one part of the study financed from foreign donations. The Institute for Roads is to make the part of the road study, while CIP Institute would work on the rail part. Both the Ministry of Economy and The Ministry of Finance reacted positively to the project. The same can be said about other competent ministries and the cabinets of the Prime Minister and the President’, Nenad Colovic, engineer and project mastermind says for ‘Blic’.
This corridor is multi-modal what means that it includes road, rail and river traffic. The road part of East Corridor envisages construction of about 170 kilometers of road that would be connected with the existing Corridor 10, via Pozarevac, Majdanpek and further towards the Serbian-Bulgarian-Romanian border. The smaller portion of the highway from Negotin to Vidin already exists and need only to be modernized.
As regards the railway, the plan envisages construction of about 20 kilometers of railroad tracks between Negotin and Vidin as well as modernization of the railway. Thus this corridor would provide connection between Serbia railway on one side and Bulgarian and Romanian on the other.
The river part of the corridor makes the Danube. Several ports are to be constructed along that river.
The East Corridor would connect Corridor 10 (Austria-Slovenia-Croatia-Serbia-Greece-Romania) with Corridor 4 (Germany-Czech Republic-Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria-Turkey). The advantage of the East Corridor is that it would make direct connection with the Constance Port at the same time avoiding the Carpathian Mountains (Romania), the Balkan mountain massive (Bulgaria) as well as marshes on the left bank of the Danube in Romania.
According to earlier claims by the Minister for infrastructure Velimir Ilic, the traffic via our country has been decreased by about 20 pct since the beginning of 2007 when Romania and Bulgaria joined the EU.
Author: R. Ž. Marković | 04.02.2008 - 06:00
Apart from Corridor 10 which should connect the north and south of Serbia, our country could get another important highway that would be a part of the biggest European (southern) corridor connecting Portugal and the Black Sea. This is the East Corridor that would make Serbia a crossroad of two important European corridors connecting the north with the South of Europe, as well as the West with the East.
’Feasibility study is under preparation and we are trying to have one part of the study financed from foreign donations. The Institute for Roads is to make the part of the road study, while CIP Institute would work on the rail part. Both the Ministry of Economy and The Ministry of Finance reacted positively to the project. The same can be said about other competent ministries and the cabinets of the Prime Minister and the President’, Nenad Colovic, engineer and project mastermind says for ‘Blic’.
This corridor is multi-modal what means that it includes road, rail and river traffic. The road part of East Corridor envisages construction of about 170 kilometers of road that would be connected with the existing Corridor 10, via Pozarevac, Majdanpek and further towards the Serbian-Bulgarian-Romanian border. The smaller portion of the highway from Negotin to Vidin already exists and need only to be modernized.
As regards the railway, the plan envisages construction of about 20 kilometers of railroad tracks between Negotin and Vidin as well as modernization of the railway. Thus this corridor would provide connection between Serbia railway on one side and Bulgarian and Romanian on the other.
The river part of the corridor makes the Danube. Several ports are to be constructed along that river.
The East Corridor would connect Corridor 10 (Austria-Slovenia-Croatia-Serbia-Greece-Romania) with Corridor 4 (Germany-Czech Republic-Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria-Turkey). The advantage of the East Corridor is that it would make direct connection with the Constance Port at the same time avoiding the Carpathian Mountains (Romania), the Balkan mountain massive (Bulgaria) as well as marshes on the left bank of the Danube in Romania.
According to earlier claims by the Minister for infrastructure Velimir Ilic, the traffic via our country has been decreased by about 20 pct since the beginning of 2007 when Romania and Bulgaria joined the EU.