On December 5th 2019, ENKA-Bechtel Joint Venture signed a contract with the Government of the Republic of Serbia to Design and Build a 112 km Morava Corridor Motorway Project which will connect central Serbia and Pan-European Corridors 10 and 11.
Morava Corridor Motorway Project is a 112 km dual-carriageway motorway, with a design speed of 130 km/h, from Pojate and the A1 (the North-South motorway in central Serbia) through Kruševac (used to be the industrial hub of Yugoslavia) and up into Preljina in the north of Čačak. The project runs east/west in the West Morava River valley and is seen as a key enabler of the economic corridor to the industrial city of Kruševac and its ultimate international connections to Bosnia, Montenegro and Macedonia.
According to the terms and conditions of the signed contract, the construction of the motorway started in 2020 and is ongoing in all nine sections.
An extensive telecommunication network is planned along the alignment to provide a Digital Corridor for improved connectivity in the region. The project features 12 new interchanges, a significant amount of structures crossing highways, railways and challenging Morava river along the route, a high embankment fills with extensive embankment scour protection works, flood protection measures and long river diversions, dykes and construction of new river bed due to the wide flood plain of West Morava River.
