Ministry of Construction

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Goran Vesic resigned from his post on Tuesday.

At an extraordinary press conference on Monday evening, Vesic announced he would officially resign following a tragedy in which an overhang collapse at the Novi Sad railway station killed 14 people and seriously injured three others on Friday.

A BIRN investigation has identified serious delays on all three sections of the line, as well as mistakes that have cost Serbia almost $35 million in penalties; it also turned up documents showing that almost $720,000 of an $800 million Russian loan for the railway line was spent on the lease of six cars from a Russian contractor.

Years behind schedule

Chinese and domestic construction subcontractors work as one team despite the scorching temperatures. The construction of the bridge over the West Morava, which is located at the confluence of the Kamenica and West Morava, in the immediate vicinity of Pakovraca interconnection, is also in progress.

This will be carried out by a team of experts from the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, and Serbian companies in charge of road and rail infrastructure.

The decision comes one day after a partial collapse of a highway bridge in Genoa, Italy, left at least 35 people dead.

Ground will be broken this month for a 104-meter tower, located next to the BC Usce office building in New Belgrade, the daily Politika writes.

The permit for the 22-floor building, Usce Tower II, has been issued, the newspaper learned on Tuesday from the Ministry of Construction, Transport, and Infrastructure.

Former cabinet minister Milutin Mrkonjic (SPS) is among a group of 14 persons against whom the Ministry of Construction has filed a criminal complaint.

The case has been submitted to the Prosecution for Organized Crime.

Instead of using the country's main airport, Belgrade Nikola Tesla, low-cost companies will be landing at smaller Serbian airports, an official has announced.

A total of 90.7km of the Corridor 10 highway will be built in Serbia this year, with the project aimed at reconstructing 1,100km of roads to continue as well.

The Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure told this to Tanjug on Wednesday.

The Serbian government has made a formal decision to divide Serbian Railways into four companies.

Those will be Holding, Infrastruktura, Srbija Voz and Kargo, the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure told Tanjug.

BELGRADE - The Road Corridor X section through Serbia will be completed by the end of next year, State Secretary with the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Miodrag Poledica said at the opening of a conference titled "Transport and Logistics of South East Europe and Danube Region - TIL 2015" on Thursday.