The planned Mostar North – Siroki Brijeg – Croatian border expressway will relieve the road network of the City of Mostar in neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it will also be the northern bypass of the city. The Croatian IGH Institute has contracted the job.
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 14th of July, 2020, o Monday, the IGH Institute, as a leading member of the community of bidders, along with IGH Mostar, Integra Mostar and Geocon Citluk, signed a contract with JP Autoceste Federacije BiH for the development and conceptual design of the Mostar-Široki Brijeg-Croatian border highway, which comes with a price tag of approximately 29.9 million kuna.
According to a statement issued by IGH on Tuesday, the Polog – Croatian border section is 40.5 kilometres long in total.
The IGH Institute and its partners have a period of eighteen months to prepare the preliminary and main design of the Polog – Siroki Brijeg – Croatian border section, to conduct all of the research for the necessary preliminary design, to prepare a feasibility study, an environmental impact study and other studies defined by the contract.
The statement reiterates that the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted the framework strategy of Bosnia and Herzegovina back in 2016, as well as the transport strategy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which defines the Mostar North – Siroki Brijeg – Croatian border highway as one of its high priority sections.
As stated, the planned Mostar North – Siroki Brijeg – Croatian border highway will relieve the road network of the City of Mostar and it will also be the northern bypass of the city.
The direct connection with the motorway on Corridor Vc will enable directing from the Mostar North loop to Corridor Vc towards the town of Siroki Brijeg and the municipality of Grude and finally to the border with Croatia, where the highway will connect to the Croatian road network.
The expressway from Polog continues directly to the southern bypass of the city of Mostar and will provide good road connections of the West Herzegovina County with the existing road network, and above all with the corridor Vc, the statement said.
The IGH Institute has recalled that one of the most important contracts in Bosnia and Herzegovina last year was the contract on the supervision of the Banovici Thermal Power Plant, with a contract carring a value of around 15.7 million kuna and a contract on the supervision of the Most na Savi project near Gradiska, worth around 8.2 million kuna.
This is already the sixth significant contract signed by the IGH Institute in recent times. Namely, contracts were recently signed with Hrvatske ceste (Croatian roads) on the supervision of the construction and reconstruction of three roads worth 12.3 million kuna, a contract with Autocesta Rijeka-Zagreb on the supervision of the reconstruction of the Krk bridge worth slightly more than 1 million kuna, and more.
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