Belgrade–Bar motorway

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Opstine (municipalities):

• Opština bar
• Opština Podgorica
• Opština Kolasin
• Opština Andrijevica
• Opština Berane
• Opština Bijelo Polje

• In construction
• In planning

The Autoput Bar - Boljare ( for Montenegrin, motorway Bar - Boljare ' ) is the first Montenegrin motorway. You will connect the Adriatic harbor bar in the south of the country with the Montenegrin- Serbian border in the north. Until Mateševo ​​the motorway case runs mostly along the railway line Belgrade - Bar.

Route

The highway is divided into three construction phases:

• The southern section (about 52 km) connects the port city of Bar on the newly built Sozina motorway tunnel and Virpazar with Podgorica or the city district Smokovac. The section thus includes a western bypass of Podgorica.
• The middle section (about 40 km ) leads from Smokovac after Mateševo ​​. Due to the direct route of the Morača Canyon is bypassed, which due to the topography, however, leads to high construction costs of more than 20 million euros per kilometer.
• The northern section ( about 76 km ) connects Mateševo ​​about Andrijevica and Berane with Boljare on the Montenegrin- Serbian border. On Serbian territory, the motorway will then be continued further on Požega to Belgrade.

Expansion of state

Officially, the construction work was started on 15 October 2009, however, set a short time later, as the contract was terminated with the executive Croatian consortium. Currently ( March 2011), therefore, no construction will take place.

According to the original plan, the highway within 9 years, ie end of construction 2018/2019, should be completed.

Realization

Costs

The total cost for the project should initially amounted to 2.77 billion euros. In order to finance a public-private partnership was planned that over a period of 30 years should run. During this period, 1.74 billion euros should be paid by the Montenegrin government, while the remaining costs should be funded through toll revenues.

Procurement

The tender was won in March 2009 by a consortium of Croatian companies ( constructor Tehnika and ICJ), which has also started in the same year with the construction work. Due to lack of bank guarantees, the contract was terminated but eight months later by the Montenegrin government.

Thereupon, with the second of the tender, conducted a Greek- Israeli consortium of companies actuator and Shikun & Binui, negotiations. This consortium should finish the first and second phase for 1.575 billion euro first. However, since even this consortium could not provide the necessary bank guarantees, the negotiations were ended without a conclusion in December 2010.

In early 2011, trying to win Chinese investors for the project. The construction of the highway should be carried out by the company China Road and Bridge Group and China Poly Group Corporation, while funding had been taken over by the China Exim Bank. In January 2011, an official inquiry in accordance with the Montenegrin Minister of Transport with Chinese authorities. The negotiations, however, led to no result, and were canceled.

In the fall of 2011 was launched with support from the European Investment Bank a tender for a new feasibility study and planning accordingly for the highway. The documents required to be created by mid-2012 and launch a new tender for the actual project afterwards.