Through its Austrian subsidiary ALPINE, FCC has won a contract to build two sections of the Pan-European Corridor in Serbia, with an investment of 30 million euro. The Serbian government has organised a company to manage the contract, while the World Bank will be financing the project.

On 14 April last the first stone was laid in the presence of Milutin Mrkonjić, Serbian minister of Infrastructure; Slavica Dukic-Dejanović, leader of the Serbian Parliament; Jane Armitage, country director and regional coordinator for the World Bank; and Dietmar Aluta-Oltyan, chairman of the ALPINE Supervisory Committee.

The contract includes the 5.8-kilometre-long bypass surrounding the city of Dimitrovgrad and another 8.6-kilometre-long section of road that goes as far as the border with Bulgaria. All in all, 15 kilometres of road will have to be built, together with seven bridges of lengths ranging between 50 and 500 metres. Construction is scheduled to be completed in two years.