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Belgrade – Novi Sad – Subotica High-Speed Railway

Reconstruction of the Belgrade–Subotica–Kelebija line for 200 km/h operation, the Serbian half of the Belgrade–Budapest corridor. Belgrade Centre–Novi Sad opened in March 2022 and the remainder to Subotica in October 2025. The Belgrade Centre–Stara Pazova leg runs on Serbian mainline 101 and the rest on mainline 105. The Chinese-financed legs were contracted in US dollars; the published estimate for Novi Sad–Subotica carries no price year, so it is omitted rather than assigned one. No cost is recorded for Stara Pazova–Novi Sad either: the only figure found for it, EUR 91.9 million, is implausibly low for a 40 km section carrying the Čortanovci tunnel and the Danube viaduct, and could not be corroborated. Mapped geometry for the northern lot stops at Subotica station rather than the Kelebija border.

Total length
183 km
Open today
183 km
Sections
3
Cost on record
€415.596M
1 of 3 sections carry a comparable figure

Restated into EUR at 2025 prices.

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Sections

Sections of Belgrade – Novi Sad – Subotica High-Speed Railway: status, length, dates, cost, funding and contractors
SectionsStatusLengthTimelineCostFundingContractorsContract terms
Belgrade Centre – Stara Pazova
2
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Opened35 km
  1. Nov 2016Tender awarded
  2. Jun 2018Construction start
  3. Mar 2022Opened
  • Estimated $367.44M(2016)
  • LoanExport–Import Bank of China.
  • National budget
  • China Railway International Co. Ltd.Builder
  • China Communications Construction Company Ltd.Builder
  • CIPDesigner
36 mo execution · 36 mo total · Contract value $350.1M
Stara Pazova – Novi Sad
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Opened40 km
  1. Mar 2018Construction start
  2. Mar 2022Opened
–
  • LoanGovernment of the Russian Federation.
  • National budget
  • RZD InternationalBuilder
  • CIPDesigner
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Novi Sad – Subotica – Kelebija border
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Opened108 km
  1. Jul 2022Construction start
  2. Oct 2025Opened
–
  • LoanExport–Import Bank of China.
  • National budget
  • China Railway International Co. Ltd.Builder
  • China Communications Construction Company Ltd.Builder
  • CIPDesigner
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Contractor roles are as recorded in the award. Only builders count toward the delivery rankings.

Funding

  • Loan183 km
    3 sections
    • Export–Import Bank of China.
    • Government of the Russian Federation.
  • National budget183 km
    3 sections

A section that lists two sources counts its full length under each: the data records which sources paid, not what share each one carried.

Related projects

Sources

  1. Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure: Hungarian–Serbian railway: reconstruction and modernisation, Belgrade–Novi Sad
  2. Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure: Investment Plan, September 2019
  3. Railway PRO: Officials inaugurate Belgrade–Novi Sad line
  4. Wikipedia: Budapest–Belgrade railway
  5. OpenStreetMap: relation 9299833, Магистрална пруга 105
  6. OpenStreetMap: relation 7826011, Магистрална пруга 101
  7. OpenStreetMap contributors: route geometry (ODbL)