On 9, April 2025, Minister of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Srpska Mr. Nedeljko Čubrilović and Acting Director of the Public Company “Autoputevi Republike Srpske” d.o.o. Banja Luka Mr. Nedeljko Ćorić, with associates and representatives of the contractor, the company “Integral inženjering” and the Supervising Engineer “IRD Inženjering” Italy, visited the construction site of the “Doboj bypass”, i.e. the second section of the motorway on Corridor 5c through the Republic of Srpska – the section Kostajnica (Rudanka) – Putnikovo brdo (border with Federation of B&H).
During the visit to the section, which is also the most technically complex section of the motorway built so far in the Republic of Srpska, they were interested in the state of the works as a whole, as well as in the progress of the work on the excavation of the “Putnikovo brdo 1” tunnel.
Representative of the contractor, head of the construction site, Marko Salapura informed the visitors that the percentage of completed earthworks is around 80%, and that preparations are underway for the construction of internal drainage and the upper body of the highway.
-The buildings are about 60% finished, the “Kostajnica” bridge is more than 90% finished, the construction of the span structure on the “Putnikovo brdo” viaduct and on the “Prisade” overpass is currently underway. For the contractor, the construction of the tunnel is the most demanding. The total length of the excavated pipe of the “Putnikovo brdo 1” tunnel is 55% and there is 45% to excavate – said Salapura, adding that 250 workers are engaged on the site every day.We remind that the second section of the motorway on the Pan-European Corridor 5c through the Republika Srpska, in the direction from Kostajnica (Rudanka) to Putnikovo brdo and the border with FBiH, is 5.6 kilometers long and consists of large road facilities, such as the bridge over the Bosna River and the main road, a viaduct and two tunnels, one of which crosses the inter-entity line. The contractor is the company “Integral inženjering”, the supervision of the works is entrusted to the Italian company “IRD Inženjering”, and the project is financed with loans from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and grants from the European Union.
