According to the contract that was signed yesterday, Belgrade will get another infrastructure project of great significance in the next 3 years.

With attendance of number of Serbian government officials and representatives of Chinese company CRBC (China Road and Bridge Corporation) a pre-contract was signed to construct a new bridge that will connect Zemun and Borca suburbs. This pre-contract should arrange financial part of the project, through a credit line which will cover 85% of the investment volume. The only condition to get the financing for this development was to hire a Chinese company to construct this highly needed traffic link. The credit line has 15 years pay-off period with fixed interest of just 3% and 3-year grace period.

The construction of this bridge should start in the second half of 2010 and the deadline to complete is set for 2013. The project envisages 1507 meter long bridge structure, with 21.6 km long access road network. This investment is estimated to reach 190 million Euros, where the credit will cover almost 145 million. The land expropriation already started on 177 residential and industrial buildings on the route, while the rest is a property of state owned giant “PKB”, so it is expected to without any problems. On Zemun side of the river, bridge will be connected to a T2 motorway that connects highways towards Novi Sad and Sid, while on the Borca side it will connect to Zrenjanin road and further towards Pancevo.

This project is significant because it will connect two suburbs that never had direct contact, it will relieve traffic pressure in the city centre, and long term it will unlock thousand hectares of the most exclusive construction land on the left banks of Danube river.

Prema ugovoru koji je juče potpisan, Beograd bi u naredne 3 godine trebao da dobije još jedan infrastrukturni objekat od izuzetnog značaja.

U prisustvu brojnih državnih funcionera i predstavnika kineske kompanije CRBC (China Road and Bridge Corporation) potpisan je predugovor o izgradnji novog beogradskog mosta, koji će premostiti Dunav i povezati naselja Zemun i Borča. Predugovor koji je potpisan trebalo bi da obezbedi kredit za finansiranje ovog projekta sa kineske stane, a odobrena suma će pokriti 85% cene novog mosta. Jedini uslov za pribavljanje ovih sredstava bio je da se izgradnja ovog mosta poveri kineskoj kompaniji. Kredit je Srbiji odobren pod veoma povoljnim uslovima, gde je rok otplate 15 godina sa fiksnom kamatom od 3% godišnje i počekom od 3 godine.

Gradnja ovog objekta trebala bi da počne u drugoj polovini naredne godine i rok završetka je određen za 2013 godinu. Most je projektom dostigao 1507 metara, dok će pripadajuće saobraćajnice i prilaznice biti dugačke čitavih 21.6 kilometara. Cena mosta se procenjuje na 190 miliona evra od čega će ugovoreni kredit iznositi 145 miliona evra. Eksproprijacija zemljista je već počela na 177 objekata stambene i industrijske namene, a ostatak trase pripada državnom gigantu “PKB” pa se tu ne očekuju veliki problemi. Most će na zemunskoj strani biti nadovezan na T2, koji spaja novosadski i autoput prema Šidu, a na strani Borče izlaziće na zrenjaninski put i dalje se nadovezivati na pravac ka Pančevu.

Projekat je značajan, zato što će povezati dva dela grada koja do sad nisu imali direktnu vezu, rasteretiće saobraćaj kroz centralne delove grada, i dugoročno omogućiti Beogradu da razvija još 1000 hektara eksluzivnog građevinskog zemljišta na levoj strani Dunava.