Belgrade metro
This story follows the Belgrade metro project: the first-line route, construction deadlines, exhibition and preparatory sites, and the roles of JP Beogradski metro i voz, Alstom, and city/republic authorities. For readers, it is a practical city story about how a promised transport project affects neighborhoods, budgets, and future mobility.
What matters
On 14 August 2026, the city said two tunnel-boring machines for metro line 1 are leaving China: they are expected to reach Europe by October and then, if logistics proceed as planned, be delivered to Belgrade by the Danube.
What changed
- The city said two TBMs for metro line 1 are leaving China: they are expected in Europe by October and then to be delivered to Belgrade by the Danube. After assembly, they are intended to excavate about 11 km of first-phase tunnels.
Chronology
Two metro tunnel-boring machines shipped from China to Belgrade
The city said two tunnel-boring machines for Belgrade metro line 1 are leaving China. They are expected to reach Europe by October and then travel by the Danube to Belgrade; after assembly, they are to begin excavating about 11 km of first-phase tunnels.
PowerChina requests a temporary permit for the Savska-Dunavska tunnel works
N1, citing eKapija, writes that PowerChina filed a request with Belgrade's urbanism secretariat for a temporary construction permit for the city tunnel between the Savska and Dunavska slopes, from the Faculty of Economics to Jovana Avakumovica Street. The request concerns works on the Palilula side of the future tunnel link; the tunnel is planned at around two kilometers, underground utilities must be relocated before boring, and the announced works timeline runs to 2030.
Belgrade will revisit the budget rebalance and prepare metro-related closures
Nikola Nikodijevic told N1 that the Belgrade Assembly will discuss another budget rebalance on June 25 after 9 billion dinars in additional revenue appeared. He also said a full closure of Bulevar despota Stefana for metro works, from Cvijiceva to Pancevacki most, will be announced in advance and could last about seven months.
A metro exhibition space is being prepared at Slavija, but no opening date is given
N1 reported that JP Beogradski metro i voz is preparing premises under the Slavija square plateau as a future "Belgrade metro exhibition space", but the company did not answer what it will be for or when it will open. Milos Vuckovic of Kreni-promeni called it a "Potemkin village" and again tied the dispute to metro delays and the first line routed through Belgrade Waterfront instead of Prokop and the Clinical Center of Serbia.