SERBIA’s deputy prime minister and minister of civil engineering, transport and infrastructure, Mrs Zorana Mihajlović, has announced that the Serbian section of the line from Belgrade to the Montenegrin port of Bar will be reconstructed by 2021.
RAIL freight operator Serbia Cargo has awarded Siemens Austria a €32m contract to supply eight multi-system Vectron locomotives.
THE Serbian and Croatian governments signed a memorandum of cooperation in Belgrade on March 9 to jointly reconstruct the 412km Belgrade - Zagreb main line.
RAILWAY Infrastructure Serbia (IZS) will invest Dinars 1.9bn ($US 20m) in line upgrades in 2018 in order to reduce the total sections where speed restrictions are in place to less than 50km.
THE Chinese-Hungarian Railway Nonprofit Company (KMVN) issued a call for tenders on November 27 for contracts to rebuild most of the Hungarian section of the Budapest - Belgrade main line.
A ceremony was held at Valjevo station in Serbia on November 15 to mark the official opening of the upgraded Resnik - Valjevo section of the Belgrage - Bar (Montenegro) railway, a project that was conducted by RZD International, a subsidiary of Russian Railways (RZD).