China State Construction Engineering Corporation has won a contract worth 335 million euros to build a 33-kilometer highway in Republika Srpska, one of two entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

CSCEC was selected by state-owned highway operator Autoputevi to participate in the project as it entered the lowest bid of eight tenders.

It is the latest in a string of Chinese road and rail projects in the Balkans, including the $1 billion Montenegrin highway, three highway sections in Serbia, a high-speed rail line between Belgrade and Budapest, and the recently completed Croatian highway Peljesac Bridge.

The road will run between the small town of Vukosavlje and the municipality of Brčko near the Slovenian border. The second 37-kilometer section will stretch all the way to the border with Serbia. Both are expected to be completed by 2030. Keywords: engineering news, overseas news

The two projects will be part of an east-west corridor between Banja Luka, the capital of Resp. Serbia, and Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.Editor/XingWentao