Ub, Serbia

BELGRADE - The Novi Sad-based Energotehnika Juzna Backa and Romanian SC NESS Proiect Europa SRL are tasked with draining water and sludge from the open-pit coal mine “Tamnava-West Field", based on the tender invited by public company Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS) and Kolubara Mining Basin.

BACKO GRADISTE - Around 40 percent of the roads destroyed in the May floods have been repaired so far, Serbian Minister of Transport Zorana Mihajlovic said on Sunday, announcing that all of the country's damaged roads and railway infrastructure will be repaired by October 1.

UB - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and his wife Dragica visited in Ub on Tuesday three houses destroyed in the May floods that are now being rebuilt with funds from the Dragica Nikolic Foundation.

Legislation to regulate flood recovery in works

BELGRADE -- Minister Zorana Mihajlović has said the government will soon present a draft law on repair of the consequences of the floods.

BELGRADE – Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transportation, Construction and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic has called on one of biggest Chinese energy corporations, Sinomah, to start the Stublenica industrial zone project on the territory of the municipality of Ub, 55 kilometers south of Belgrade.

BELGRADE - The Czech Republic, which donated the equipment worth EUR 60,000 to the Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS) on Tuesday, has so far given Serbia around EUR 250,000 in assistance after the severe floods, Czech Ambassador to Serbia Ivana Hlavsova has said.

BELGRADE - Serbian Railways CEO Dragoljub Simonovic has voiced expectation on Monday that rail traffic in Serbia will get back to normal very soon, expect on a stretch of the Belgrade Bar rail line.

Simonovic explained that flash floods dislocated a 1.5 km stretch of tracks by as many as five meters, while a mudslide blocked access to the railway near the village of Gradac.