Customs complex worth EUR 2.7m opens in Kruševac prior to 2011

(Commencement of works)

Construction of a customs complex in Kruševac, in which EUR 2.7m will be invested, started yesterday (June 14, 2010). The deadline for completion of works is August 2, 2011.

The State Secretary in the Finance Ministry, Miodrag Đidić, explained that the customs complex would include an Administrative building at 1,070 square meters with all accompanying contents such as customs terminal for trucks, truck scale, parking lot for vehicles placed under a customs procedure, etc.

Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković said on that occasion that the construction of the customs complex in Kruševac would be of great significance to that city and surroundings and that it would contribute to decentralization, reduction of goods clearance fees, and creation of new jobs.

According to Đidić, that is not going to be the only investment in Kruševac this year because reconstruction of the building of Tax Administration, which was built in 1903, and investments in road infrastructure, water power engineering and electric power system are also in the pipeline.

Also, as he announced, the custom house in Šabac, of which construction commenced two years ago, is planned to be opened on September 1st, prior to which the documentation should be finished and construction of a custom house in Užice commenced.

The State Secretary said that the Customs Administration should procure two Chinese state-of-the-arts mobile scanners for checking goods in September or October. The documentation for that procurement is already completed and the governments of the two countries should sign the agreement on procurement of these scanners in July.

Đidić pointed out that the value of the whole procurement would be USD 30m. He explained that the concession loan would be taken for procurement of ten scanner, the first of which would be installed in Belgrade, while the second would be put in operation on border crossing Horgoš.

Contractors for the works on the customs complex in Kruševac are PMC–Inženjering, Telefonkabl, SMB–gradnja and Zlatibor–gradnja Beograd.