Russian Company Sinara Interested in Development and Modernization of BG Voz – Plan Includes 39 New Trains, Reconstruction and Building of Tracks

An interstate agreement between Serbia and Russia, which will enable the participation of Russian companies in the project of development and modernization of BG Voz, should be signed by this summer, it was said at the meeting of a Belgrade delegation and the Serbian minister in charge of innovations and technical development, Nenad Popovic, with the company Sinara Transport Machines, which is interested in taking part in that project, Beoinfo reports.

– We discussed the concrete realization of this project. According to the plan made by the Russian government, within two to three weeks, they will propose an interstate agreement to our government. When the agreement goes through the necessary procedure in Serbia, it might be signed in May or June already – said the deputy mayor of Belgrade, Goran Vesic.

He said that, in Belgrade, at that moment, there were around 2.5 million passengers using the public transport daily, without a subway or a developed suburban rail system, that all the public transport vehicles traveled over 460,000 kilometers each day and that it was necessary for the transport system to develop further.

– The plan is for the cooperation on the construction of the BG Voz system to start in March 2023 in three phases. There will be a total of 39 new trains, over 230 kilometers of tracks will be reconstructed and nearly 80 kilometers of new tracks will be built. Once this is all done, by 2030, there will be two new subway lines and a fully developed BG Voz, which will not only cover the section between Batajnica and Ovca, but also the route to Pancevo. There will be many more trains on the routes to Lazarevac and Barajevo, as well as Mladenovac and Sopot, and the center of Surcin and the airport, as well as Obrenovac, will be connected with the city center – Vesic said.

Sinara Transport Machines owner Dmitry Pumpyansky said that, at the meeting, they had discussed the perspectives of the development of a very serious project for Belgrade and Serbia, which is called “Belgrade Diameter” and is currently being considered.

– We are considering having various companies from different countries taking part in the project, including Russian companies. We have informed the Serbian management that Sinara has all the competences for taking part in that project, regarding both the construction and the delivery, servicing and maintenance of trains – Pumpyansky said.

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Ministarstvo nauke, tehnološkog razvoja i inovacija Republike Srbije

City of Belgrade

minister for innovations and technological development of Serbia

Sinara Transport Machines

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Nenad Popović

Dmitry Pumpyansky

BG Voz

interstate agreement

city railway system

construction of BG Voz system

modernization of BG Voz system

Belgrade Diameter