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The Bulgarian government has allowed a subsidiary of Canada-based Dundee Precious Metals to explore a field in Bansko municipality, Southwestern Bulgaria, for metallic minerals.

Wait time for trucks at Batrovci crossing 17 hours

BELGRADE -- Trucks are on Thursday waiting up to 17 hours to leave Serbia on the Batrovci border crossing with Croatia, the Interior Ministry (MUP) has said.

Also today, trucks wait approximately two hours at the Šid border crossing.

Trucks wait up to 12 hours on border crossing in west

BELGRADE -- Trucks are on Tuesday waiting up to 12 hours to leave Serbia on the Batrovci border crossing with Croatia, the Serbian Interior Ministry (MUP) has announced.

At the same time, passenger vehicles leaving Serbia on the Gostun crossing must wait about 30 minutes.

Freight vehicles wait 3 hours at one crossing

BELGRADE -- Freight vehicles leaving Serbia on the Batrovci border crossing had to wait around three hours on Monday morning, the police said.

No major congestion has been reported from the crossings of Šid, Horgoš, Bački Vinogradi, Bajmok, Gostun, Jabuka, Špiljani, and Kotroman.

BELGRADE - Passenger vehicles have to wait 5 hours to exit Serbia at the Batrovci crossing along the border with Croatia, while the wait at the Horgos crossing, which leads to Hungary, is around 4 hours, the Interior Ministry office for media relations said on Sunday.

BELGRADE – Wait times at Serbia’s borders with Croatia, Montenegro and Bulgaria were between 30 and 80 minutes on Thursday afternoon.

Drivers wait about 30 minutes when crossing the border from Serbia to Croatia at Batrovci, the Serbian Interior Ministry Media Cooperation Bureau said in a release.

BELGRADE – Increased traffic at the border crossing at Batrovci between Serbia and Croatia has caused wait times of about two hours on the way out of Serbia and of up to 90 minutes while entering the country, the Serbian Interior Ministry (MUP) said in a release Saturday.

BELGRADE - There is no major congestion at the border crossings Batrovci, Horgos, Sid, Kelebija, Jabuka, Gostun and Spiljani.

This information was released by the interior ministry's press office on Monday.

Long queues of vehicles that formed at border crossings over the weekend were largely ascribed to this being the last weekend in July, at the peak of the tourist season.

BELGRADE - Due to higher traffic volumes at the border crossings Gradina to Bulgaria and Spiljani to Montengro, passenger vehicles are waiting for around 45 minutes to leave Serbia on Sunday.

At the Batrovci border crossing, between Croatia and Serbia, the wait time is estimated at around 90 minutes, the Serbian Interior Ministry stated.

Montenegrin caught smuggling 12 kilos of marijuana

PRIJEPOLJE -- Police and customs officers in Prijepolje, southwestern Serbia, have found more than 12 kilograms of marijuana in a car driven by a Montenegrin citizen.

The 31-year-old suspect, identified as D.B., is currently in the 48-hour police custody.