Tigar Tyres

PIROT - Serbian Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic announced on Wednesday works on a natural gas measurement and regulation station near Pirot, southeastern Serbia, had been completed and that a gas interconnector with Bulgaria was expected to start trial operation soon.

According to data obtained by BIRN from the Serbian Ministry of Trade, of the 20 biggest exporters from Serbia to Russia, only five are Serbian-owned. Fourteen are subsidiaries of companies headquartered in the EU. In the top 10, only two are Serbian.

Topping this list is Fiat (FCA) Serbia (majority-owned by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles), that sold cars worth EUR 599.6 million, followed by HBIS Group (owned by China's Hesteel), who operate the Smederevo-based steel plant - and have exported products worth EUR 581.4 million in this period.

Second Tigar Tyres worker dies in Germany

PIROT -- Another of the three Tigar Tyres workers severely injured in an accident on April 23 has passed away.

The Pirot-based Tigar Tyres company made the announcement on Tuesday.

Miodrag Panic, a maintenance worker, died on April 27 shortly after 8 p.m, the company said.

Three injured workers transferred to Germany

PIROT -- The three workers who were injured in the Tigar Tyres plant in Pirot were on Friday morning transferred by plane to Germany for further medical treatment.

Tanjug said it learned this from the plastic surgery clinic of the Clinical Center in Nis.

NIS - The three workers who were injured in the Tigar Tyres plant in Pirot were on Friday morning transferred by plane to Germany, where they will receive further treatment, Tanjug has learnt at the plastic surgery clinic within the clinical center in Nis.