Agreement on Construction of Tunnel to Connect Sava and Danube Slopes Signed with Chinese Company

The mayor of Belgrade, Aleksandar Sapic, the minister of finance of Serbia, Sinisa Mali, the acting director of the Belgrade Land Development Public Agency, Milan Vranic, and the representative of Power China International Group Limited, Yang Bo, are going to sign the Memorandum of Understanding for the project of the construction of the tunnel connection from Karadjordjeva Street to the Danube Slobe, with access routes, park areas and infrastructure, on Monday, July 3, announced the Secretariat for Information of the City of Belgrade.

This commences the realization of a project which has been planned for nearly seven decades, and which will connect the Danube and the Sava slopes.

Let us remind that, in late June, mayor Sapic said that he expected the agreement to be signed by the end of the year for the tunnel, as well as for the New Belgrade – New Sava Bridge traffic route, with the Government of Serbia.

As the head urban planner of Belgrade, Marko Stojcic, stated earlier for eKapija, the value of the construction of the tunnel would be EUR 90 to 100 million.

According to him, the plan entails two tunnel tubes of a total of around 2 km, with portals in Gavrila Principa Street, in the zone of the Faculty of Economics, and Despota Stefana Blvd, in the direction of the Pancevo Bridge, in the zone of the Police Administration.

Stojcic emphasized at the time that the tunnel would help reduce the density of traffic in the city center by 14%, increase the traveling speed by 10% and reduce the average travel time by 10%.

He added that the research conducted by the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering showed that the emission of carbon-monoxide in the city center would drop by 9% thanks to the realization of this project.

B. P.

Grad Beograd

Ministarstvo finansija Republike Srbije

JP Direkcija za građevinsko zemljište i izgradnju Beograda

Power Construction Corporation of China Limited Ogranak Beograd

City of Belgrade

Ministry of Finance of Serbia

Belgrade Land Development Public Agency

Power China

Aleksandar Šapić

Siniša Mali

Milan Vranić

Yang Bo

tunnel from Sava to Danube slopes

tunnel from Karađorđeva Street to Dunav Slope

Memorandum of Understanding