August 29 (SeeNews) - Turkish civil engineering company Tasyapi plans to start the construction of the first section of a motorway connecting Serbia's capital Belgrade to Bosnia's Sarajevo this week, Serbia's infrastructure minister Zorana Mihajlovic has said.
"Tasyapi will start by Sunday the preparatory works and then the construction works on the Sremska Raca - Kuzmin section of the motorway, for which it has obtained a building permit," Mihajlovic said in a press release on Wednesday.
A total of 120 million euro ($133 million) will be invested in the construction of the Sremska Raca - Kuzmin section, 5 million euro were invested in the development of project documentation, while a new bridge over the Sava river will cost 100 million euro, Serbia's prime minister Ana Brnabic said in June. She also said that the government plans to invest 25 million euro in the development of project documentation for the second section of the motorway, which will link Pozega to Kotroman via Uzice.
In December, the government signed a 250 million euro contract with Tasyapi for the construction of the Sremska Raca-Kuzmin section and the preparation of the project documentation of the Pozega-Kotroman-Uzice section with Tasyapi.
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