30 October 2018 - In the last five years, a total of 197,84 million EUR was invested in maintenance, reconstruction and construction of regional and trunk roads in Montenegro, said the director of the Directorate for state roads within the Ministry of Transport, Mirsad Ibrahimović. As he said, this had an impact on more comfortable, economical, safer and high-quality transport and, therefore, resulted in better accessibility of Montenegro as a tourism destination.
“Montenegro has significantly improved its transport infrastructure. However, it is still falling back in comparison to the needs of the contemporary dynamic economy and therefore additional investments are necessary,” said Ibrahimović for “Pobjeda”.
Constant changes that national economies of Balkan countries are faced with, require defining a clear vision, missions and strategies of the development of transportation system in order to provide sustainable economic growth and development of the entire region.
“The European Commission also recognized insufficiently developed infrastructure of the Western Balkans. It, therefore, aims to increase the maturity of projects and enhance the development of transport network through the available mechanisms of Berlin process,” said Ibrahimović.
The Government adopted Single List of Priority Infrastructure Projects at the end of 2015, and then the updated one from 30 July last year, which among many other projects includes 12 projects from the sector of transport with the total estimated value of investment in the amount of 3,38 billion EUR.
“Two key infrastructure projects in Montenegro are Bar-Boljare highway and Adriatic-Ionian road motorway along Montenegrin seaside,” said Ibrahimović.
He believes that these two priority infrastructure projects should ensure better regional connection of Montenegro. As he says, 30 million EUR budget is planned for the management, construction, reconstruction, maintenance and protection of regional and trunk roads in Montenegro.
