Around two-thirds of the Corridor 5c motorway project is expected to be completed by 2020, according to the director of the Bosnian motorways company JP Autoceste.
Jasmin Buco said that 120km out of 337km of the motorway are complete.
The corridor section, to connect Budapest with Ploce port in Croatia, is taking the most time.
He said that the cost of the remaining part of the motorway is expected to be around €2.81 billion.
Buco said he expects that among new projects to start this year will be the Pocitelj-Zvirovici and Buna-POcitelj roads, worth around €130 million, and the two parts of the Zenicka ringroad.
Corridor Vc, or 5c, is designed to connect Kiev in the Ukraine to Slovakia and Hungary and run through Bosnia to Croatia’s Adriatic coast. The pan-European corridor consists of three branches, of which Vc follows a route from Budapest in Hungary to Ploce on the Croatian coast.
The longest stretch of Vc lies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, covering 337km.
In mid-2014, a 6km stretch of the highway between Sarajevo and Zenica was opened that included a 3km-loong tunnel. The March 1 tunnel, named after date of Bosnia's independence referendum, meant that the journey between the two cities was cut from one hour to 30 minutes.
The tunnel cost around €62 million had been under construction for several years, first by two Slovenian companies that eventually which went bankrupt, and later by a consortium of Bosnian companies, according to a report by Balkan Insight at the time. The tunnel is the longest in Bosnia and is one of the most important infrastructure projects to be completed since the 1992-5 war
Jasmin Buco said that 120km out of 337km of the motorway are complete.
The corridor section, to connect Budapest with Ploce port in Croatia, is taking the most time.
He said that the cost of the remaining part of the motorway is expected to be around €2.81 billion.
Buco said he expects that among new projects to start this year will be the Pocitelj-Zvirovici and Buna-POcitelj roads, worth around €130 million, and the two parts of the Zenicka ringroad.
Corridor Vc, or 5c, is designed to connect Kiev in the Ukraine to Slovakia and Hungary and run through Bosnia to Croatia’s Adriatic coast. The pan-European corridor consists of three branches, of which Vc follows a route from Budapest in Hungary to Ploce on the Croatian coast.
The longest stretch of Vc lies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, covering 337km.
In mid-2014, a 6km stretch of the highway between Sarajevo and Zenica was opened that included a 3km-loong tunnel. The March 1 tunnel, named after date of Bosnia's independence referendum, meant that the journey between the two cities was cut from one hour to 30 minutes.
The tunnel cost around €62 million had been under construction for several years, first by two Slovenian companies that eventually which went bankrupt, and later by a consortium of Bosnian companies, according to a report by Balkan Insight at the time. The tunnel is the longest in Bosnia and is one of the most important infrastructure projects to be completed since the 1992-5 war
