AUTO-PUT BANJA LUKA – Prijedor could increase by about 100 million euros if the RS government has accepted the results of the Feasibility request of the Chinese company “Shandong Hi-Speed ​​International” to increasing the prices, the Capital Portal.
This section, 42 kilometers long at a price of 297 million euros (579 million marks), was defined in 2018. by the concession agreement between the RS Government with the Chinese company.
Although its completion was announced until spring 2026. year, the reality is such that it did not move far from the initial works and unfinished expropriation.
Meanwhile, the price of works was reduced by 15 million euros, that is, there was a movement of the route and its “straightening”, which streamed with us that some papers would occur and occur.
However, we were in vain, and the request of the Chinese quickly arrived, due to the price of the material, and the final result was the analysis of the RS government, ie 100m euros (195 million marks).
“According to this analysis, the works should cost 382 million euros, ie about 745 million marks,” Capital from a well-informed source.
We reminded the Republika Srpska with the consessional contract with the Chinese company to pay the annual fee for the availability of the auto-road in the amount of 32.5 million euros, and that amount should be provided from the collection of tolls in the RS.
If this amount is not collected from collection, the Government of Srpska obliged to pay the difference from the RS budget.
Thus, in the 30-year-old concession, the Chinese investor was promised to earn 975 million euros for investing worth 297 million euros through the collection of toll.
This figure will be significantly higher with this price increase.
In October last year, Portal Capital wrote that the Chinese were looking for additional funds and guarantees, and the government spent 234,000 KM on the preparation of an analysis of the justification of the Chinese requirement and defining the final digit.
The construction of this highway from the first moment is accompanied by various problems, including tragicomic situations.
First, the Government continues to persistently hide the details of the contracts related to the prices of works and financial construction, and ignores the entire number of court judgments that orders them.
In addition, the villages of the villages through which the passage of the road do not accept expropriation and refuse to sell land, which is why only one part has so far received a building permit.
In addition, the RS government announces the opening of the works of this section, and so far it has done so as many as three times.
For the first time, in November 2021. Ahead of the Extraordinary Elections for Prijedor, the opening of works was announced, and the ceremony was also announced.
The second time is the construction announced ahead of general elections in 2022. years, but without the ceremony.
The third time, the works were announced in mid-September last year, when the Government adopted information about the construction of the highway and the conclusion that all the obligations of SDHS were met. The statement is an expression of the expectation that the works will start by the end of September 2024. years.
“From the Chinese company Shandong Government expects to start work by the end of the month,” the announcement after the session.
As works even after that did not start, RS Radovan Prime Minister Radovan Višković, at the beginning of this month, met with the representatives of the Chinese company regarding the construction of the highway.
Like the previous trip, they “rated” that the Government of Republika Srpska fulfilled all obligations that preceded the implementation of this project, and that “and the Chinese Party is actively working on the implementation of this project as soon as possible”.
The meeting was concluded that a significant part of the work was completed so far, which referred to the land expropriation and certain preparatory works, writes Capital
