Novi Sad and Vojvodina provide additional EUR 5 mil for the Zezelj bridge
The Serbian Railways, the City, the Province and the contractor of the Zezelj bridge, Azvi-Tadei-Horta Ktheoslada, agreed to continue works on the bridge construction.
The annex to the contract which will increase construction costs for EUR 5 m
follows and the funds will be provided by Novi Sad and Vojvodina. Since at the
moment there is not decision on the funds from the budget of the City and the Province,
before the annex, a memorandum which guarantees funds payment to the contractor
will be signed first.
Blic reports that sign a memorandum today or in the next
few days, the works on the bridge construction will continue at full capacity
in a month. The Mayor, Milos Vucevic, confirmed negotiations are difficult but
that they are ending.
- We will firstly sign a memorandum then an annex because this is very
important issue for Novi Sad – Vucevic said.
Let us remind ourselves that the construction is late due to documentation issues, additional works and the dispute between the Serbian Railways and AZVI consortium with respect to costs and that the bridge should have been constructed long time ago and that the last estimations show it will end in late 2015.