Extended

The Bar-Boljare highway is Montenegro's leg of a larger highway that will run along its Adriatic coast to the Serbian capital, Belgrade. According to Montenegrin authorities, the first phase of the Matesevo-Boljare should be open by the end of 2021. China Road and Bridge Corporation is building this phase of road, and 85 per cent of this first project is being paid by a nearly 944-million-US-dollar loan from China’s Export-Import Bank. Among the main concerns is the financing of the other phases of the highway, loan repayment, environmental damage etc.

Montenegro

Zelezara Smederevo steel mill Sinter Plant Construction

ivan.angelovski — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 10:19:07 +0000

Zelezara Smederevo steel mill Sinter Plant Construction

Date

2019

ivan.angelovski Wed, 12/15/2021 - 11:19

Value

107719928 EUR

Status

Chinese partners

Deadlines

Transparency

Project description

The Chinese-owned HBIS Group Serbia Iron & Steel started the construction of a new sinter plant in Smederevo, promising one of Europe's most environmentally friendly and energy efficient industrial plants.

Serbia

Modernization and Reconstruction of the Serbian Railway (Section Belgrade - Stara Pazova)

ivan.angelovski — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 09:57:18 +0000

Modernization and Reconstruction of the Serbian Railway (Section Belgrade - Stara Pazova)

Date

2016

ivan.angelovski Wed, 12/15/2021 - 10:57

Value

315660813 EUR

Status

Ongoing

Chinese partners

China Railway International Co. Ltd.

Local partners

Infrastructure of Serbian Railways JSC

Deadlines

Extended

Transparency

Closed

Project description

China Railway International and China Communications Construction Company were given a nearly 315-million-euro contract to reconstruct the railway between Belgrade and Stara Pazova, as a part of the Hungarian-Serbian railway connection.

Serbia

Donation to renovate Rajko Zinzifov elementary school

ivan.angelovski — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 09:44:37 +0000

Donation to renovate Rajko Zinzifov elementary school

Date

2012

ivan.angelovski Wed, 12/15/2021 - 10:44

Value

3900000 EUR

Status

Completed

Chinese partners

China IPPR International Engineering Co. Ltd.

The Government of the People's Republic of China

Local partners

Linika Inzenering

BAR Engineering, Consulting, Environment

Deadlines

Extended

Transparency

Partial

Project description

The renovation of the Rajko Zinzifov Elementary School started in November 2012 with a four-million-euro donation from the Chinese government. The school is a symbol of a friendship between the Asian and Balkan country. The project was completed in September 2014.

North Macedonia

Loan and participation in Miladinovci – Stip highway construction

ivan.angelovski — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 09:41:56 +0000

Loan and participation in Miladinovci – Stip highway construction

Date

2013

ivan.angelovski Wed, 12/15/2021 - 10:41

Value

226696367 EUR

Status

Completed

Chinese partners

Sinohydro Corporation Limited

Local partners

Deadlines

Transparency

Project description

North Macedonia and the Export-Import Bank of China signed a loan agreement on November 26, 2013, for a new motorway project costing 206 million euro.

North Macedonia

Loan and participation in Kicevo – Ohrid highway construction

ivan.angelovski — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 09:39:26 +0000

Loan and participation in Kicevo – Ohrid highway construction

Date

2013

ivan.angelovski Wed, 12/15/2021 - 10:39

Value

411287800 EUR

Status

Ongoing

Chinese partners

Sinohydro Corporation Limited

Local partners

Deadlines

Transparency

Project description

China’s Export-Import Bank is financing a loan to North Macedonia to build the Kicevo-Ohrid highway. Sinohydro Corporation Limited is the main contractor working with local construction companies Granit and Beton. Beton has been involved in several cases related to disputed tenders.

North Macedonia

Adriatic-Ionian Highway (Blue Corridor)

ivan.angelovski — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 09:38:11 +0000

Adriatic-Ionian Highway (Blue Corridor)

Date

2015

ivan.angelovski Wed, 12/15/2021 - 10:38

Value

1450000000 EUR

Status

Stalled

Chinese partners

China Pacific Construction Group

Deadlines

Extended

Project description

In November 2015, Montenegro and Albania signed a MoU with China Pacific Construction Group, CPCG, to build a 1.4-billion-euro express highway between Montenegro and Albania - the Adriatic-Ionian motorway. The then-chairman Yan Jiehe announced that the construction of the 280-kilometre link would begin in the second half of 2016 and finish in 2018. A MoU was signed for a period of 18 months but could be extended with the consent of signatories. Local media reported in June of this year that the ministry for capital investment anounced that the average estimated value of the highway project along the Montenegrin coast is about 13.2 million euro per kilometer.

Montenegro

Ugljevik 3 thermal power plant construction

ivan.angelovski — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 09:25:56 +0000

Ugljevik 3 thermal power plant construction

Date

2021

ivan.angelovski Wed, 12/15/2021 - 10:25

Value

613000000 EUR

Status

Not started

Chinese partners

Sunningwell International Ltd.

China National Electric Engineering Corporation Limited (CNEEC)

Local partners

Comsar Energy Republika Srpska

Deadlines

Extended

Transparency

Closed

Project description

China National Electric Engineering Company said in June 2021 that they and the Polish-Chinese Sunningwell International LTD signed a contract for the Ugljevik 3 Coal-fired Power Plant and its construction.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dabar Hydropower Plant

ivan.angelovski — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 09:24:36 +0000

Dabar Hydropower Plant

Date

2020

ivan.angelovski Wed, 12/15/2021 - 10:24

Value

338000000 EUR

Status

Ongoing

Chinese partners

China Gezhouba Group Co. Ltd.

Local partners

Mixed Holding Power Utility of Republic of Srpska

Deadlines

Extended

Transparency

Partial

Project description

The China Gezhouba Group Company signed a contract in May 2020 with the Republika-Srpska-based Public enterprise Elektroprivreda RS to construct the 160 MW Dabar HPP in Herzegovina. Acording to an official anouncement, the project should be financed with a Chinese EXIM bank loan, but there are no information whether agreement has being signed yet.

Bosnia and Herzegovina