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The Middle Eastern group DP World will invest in the development of the fluvial transport in Serbia
In program the construction of a new port to Novi Sad, Smederevo or Belgrade with an investment of beyond 200 million euros
May 24, 2018
Yesterday Zorana Mihajlovic, vice Prime Minister of Serbia and minister of the Constructions, you transport and infrastructures, has undersigned a memorandum of understanding and cooperation for the development of the fluvial ports of the nation with the sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, president of the terminalista group DP World of Dubay. The agreement is framed in the program of modernization of fluvial infrastructures of the government of Belgrade that includes the construction of a new port that, second the outcomes of a feasibility study, will be realized to Novi Sad or to Smederevo or Belgrade. For the Middle Eastern terminalista group it will be the first investment in the Balkan area.
"We are aware - Zorana Mihajlovic has explained - than in last the forty years we have not invested in transport for fluvial way. During the last few years we have ordered the entire system of the fluvial transport with legislations, regulation of harbour infrastructures and initiatives times to velocizzare the transit to the borders and today we are in a phase in which it can be spoken about investments, and - it has specified the vice Serbian prime Minister - we are speaking about million tens euro for the modernization of the current ports and sure beyond 200 million euros for the construction of a new fluvial port".
"The position of Serbia in this part of Europe - it has added Mihajlovic - offers an advantage to us regarding the other nations. This is a first important step and sincerely I confide that the next year we will be able to begin to construct a new and modern port. We are already recording an increase of the transport of the goods, but without ulterior investments and new ports it cannot be spoken, first of all, of regional integration of the traffic of the container".
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