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Montenegro to get two cable cars worth EUR 12 mil

15/05/2018 15:48
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Contract signed with Leitner (Photo: Twitter, Govt of MNE)

Prime Minister Dusko Markovic attended today’s signing of the contract for the construction of a cable car from Podvrh Monastery to Djalovic Cave, worth four million euros, and six-seat cable car at Cmiljaca, worth eight million euros. The contract with the representatives of the Italian company Leitner was signed by the director of the Directorate of Public Works, Mr. Almer Kalač.

The deadline for launching the lifts is November 2019.

PM Markovic said that these projects and this impressive investment will change Bijelo Polje, and that the Government will do everything to ensure that the contracts are implemented within the defined deadlines.

“We made deals and selected the contractor. All that is left now are a few expropriation issues, but I believe that in a matter od twenty days, the contractor will be able to start with preliminary works for the road to this place”, he said.

The Prime Minister underlined that at the beginning of his mandate, he announced a special commitment from the Government to the northern region, and that he meant it not in economic commitments, but in concrete actions.

“Today we signed a contract on the design and layout of the cableway in Cmiljaca as well. It is also a worthy project, one of the most valuable after the highway, realized by the Montenegrin Government to boost its winter tourism and the development of the north. I believe that by 2020, we will use these locations and the whole of mount Bjelasica for economic and development purposes, that they will produce thousands of jobs, and that life in this region will finally improve”, the PM said.

Minister of Sustainable Development and Tourism, Mr. Pavle Radulovic, said that Italian Leitner is the manufacturer of equipment and the main system designer, but that the contract involves several Montenegrin companies engaged in designing and building, with New Volvox at the helm.

“So a great chunk of this money will stay right here in Montenegro, to our companies”, Minister Radulovic stressed.

Responding to the journalists’ question whether the Bar-Boljare highway will be delayed and whether it will be more expensive than the plan, PM Markovic said the plan is to launch the first section in 2019.

“We will pay as much as we need. Everything that brings lasting value to Montenegro is not expensive”, the PM said.

After the Orthodox monastery Podvrh, he visited the mosque and gasulhana in Bistrica near Bijelo Polje.

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