Main Postal Center in Belgrade to open until year's end

The public postal service Poste Srbije yesterday marked the completion of construction works on the 28,000-square-meter facility of the Main Postal Center (MPC) Beograd. which took 15 months to finish.

According to the words of Acting Director of Poste Srbije Goran Ciric, this center will become operational until the end of 2012.

The value of the construction, reconstruction and equipping of main postal centers in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Nis is close to EUR 40 million, which were provided by the national postal service from its own sources.

Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic said at the ceremony marking the completion of works that the MPC Beograd would be the "heart" of the postal system in Serbia and a hub for automatic classification of postal items.

Pointing out that postal centers in Novi Sad and Nis would be finished this summer, Cvetkovic congratulated to Poste Srbije on caring about balanced regional development, employing local construction companies and financing these projects from its own sources.

According to his words, Poste Srbije is an example of a profit-making public company that skillfully survives in the liberalized market, fulfills its obligations and makes significant investments in technological development.

As Goran Ciric explained, the construction of that postal center in Belgrade is a precondition for that company to move from the 19th to the 21st century when it comes to the classification of postal items.

Ciric stressed that Poste Srbije would thus set high standards in the country and the region, adding that it would not be possible without a great dedication of the current generation and the team of employees at that company.

The MPC Beograd is situated on a 5.6 hectare lot in Ugrinovacka street, near the main route T6, which connects highways E-70 and E-75, integral parts of the European Corridor X.

The plans for the MPC Beograd were drawn by Masinoprojekt Kopring, whereas the construction work was entrusted to a consortium comprising Inter-kop Misar and Termoinzenjering.